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'You really can't have enough trees'

from The Northern Light (June 10, 2008)

Gathering under a clear and sunny sky last Thursday, the mayor of Bathurst and and members of Bathurst Sustainable Development created new life in recognition of World Environment Day...

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Changing the way they do business, helping Earth

from The Chronicle Herald (June 6,2008)

Sustainability can make for strange bedfellows.

Municipalities, businesses of various sizes and some non-governmental organizations were lauded Thursday for a successful one-year experiment in living and working greener...

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World Environment Day Team Effort
Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative celebrates first year

from The Chronicle Herald (June 3,2008)

On Jun. 5, World Environment Day, an eclectic and diverse collection of partners will come together at the Halifax Shambhala Centre to celebrate a very successful first year of the Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative (ACSI).

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Various activities planned to celebrate Earth Day

from The Northern Light (April 15,2008)

Earth Day is coming up on April 22 and a number of activities are being planned locally in conjunction with this annual event.

On April 19, representatives from the Daly Point Nature Reserve will be at the City Farmers' Market, from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. with an Earth Day Kiosk.....

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Atlantic Canada Sustainability Initiative Kicks Off

from Energy Evolution (June 4, 2007)

A Halifax-based organization that subscribes to the belief there's more to economic growth than, well, economic growth, has launched a program it hopes will eventually help all of Atlantic Canada develop in a way that assures its future in a world of scarce and expensive resources....

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Sustainable development initiative launching

by Tom Peters of The Chronicle-Herald (May 14, 2007)

Several municipalities, businesses and non-governmental organizations have signed on to an initiative designed to turn Atlantic Canada into a model of sustainable development for Canada and North America....

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A Step Forward

by Chad Park and Tamara Lorincz of The Chronicle-Herald (December 16, 2005)

Many of the social and environmental consequences of unsustainable production and consumption are first noticed at the community level, because this is where we live and work. In communities across Nova Scotia, we see first-hand how smog, clear cutting, pesticide runoff, mining, dragnet fishing and factory-farming are contaminating our air, land and water and depleting natural resources, and how homelessness and poverty are causing despair....

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