Clean Nova Scotia Newsletters
Clean & Green Newsletters
Vol. 6, No. 3 Summer 2010 (PDF)
- Air Quality and Our Health
- NS Climate Change
- European Fire Ants
- Cozy Summer Home
- Straw Bale Primer
- Carbon Coffee Footprint
- Food & Climate
- Ship to Shore
- Interesting Websites
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Vol. 6, No. 2 Spring 2010 (PDF)
- 1st Annual Eco-Driver Rally
- Interesting Websites
- Dandelion Tea
- The Amazing Cucumber
- Chinch Bug Management
- A 2nd Garbage Patch - Plastic Soup in Atlantic
- Marine Environment Pick-Me-Up
- Clean Nova Scotia Program Review
- Alternative Energy - Blowing In The Wind
Vol. 6, No. 1 Winter 2010 (PDF)
- Wetlands Need Attention Too!
- Armchair Gardening ...Organically
- Keep Your Home Cozy This Winter
- Climate Change: Hitting All Corners of Nova Scotia
- The Great Nova Scotia Pick Me Up
- New Website Launch
- Kitchens I Would Love To Cook In
- Bottled Water ...and the environment
- Fuel-efficiency teaching - it's science, not religion
- Waste Reduction Week - October 19 - 25, 2009
- Adopt-a-Watershed - Creating Watershed Stewardship for the Future
- The Power of Change
- Sea Waste to the Dock!
- Eddie's Litterless Road Tour - Calling All Elementary School Teachers (P - 3)
- The Great Nova Scotia Pick-Me-Up
- International Day of Climate Action in Halifax
- Vampire Power - The Undead Need to be Unplugged
- Retire Your Ride
- A Bright Idea - Energy Efficient Lighting Program
- Making a Difference in Our Communities
View this issue as well at http://issuu.com/cleannovascotia/docs/cns_clean_green_fall_2009
Content deadline for Winter 2010 issue is December 18, 2009. Clean and Green’s Winter issue will be published in January, 2010.
- A Quagmire in Canada's Wetlands
- Nova Scotia's Air Quality Health Index
- CP Allan High School goes idle-free
- An earth-friendly valentine's day
- Steel Oil Tanks: Reduce your chance of a leak
- The Environmental Superhero Contest
- Chocolate in Shackles
View this issue as well at http://issuu.com/cleannovascotia/docs/candg_winter2009
Content deadline for Spring issue is April 30th. Clean and Green’s Spring issue will be published in May 2009.
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- Kicking Butt All Summer Long
- Waste Reduction Week Highlights
- Clean Nova Scotia’s Water Programs
- The Coming Detour
- An Educational Quest
- Clean Nova Scotia & alfresco filmFesto
- Promoting Safe, Green Driving
- Pesticide Wrap-Up
View this issue as well at http://issuu.com/cleannovascotia/docs/c_g_oct08_web
Content deadline for Winter issue is December 19th. Clean and Green’s winter issue will be published in February 2009.
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Vol. 3 No. 4 Summer 2008 (PDF)
- Summer Updates
- A perspective on Climate and Change
- CNS Anniversary Reunion!
- Info on recycling electronics
- Summer Steering
- 20 Ways to green your home business or office
- More!
View this issue in a user-friendly format here.
The content deadline for Fall issue is September 15th. If you would like to submit an article for publication in Clean & Green, please contact aaronATclean.ns.ca
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Vol. 3 No. 3 Spring 2008 (PDF)
- CFLs: Mercury and Disposal
- The Plastic Bag debate
- The Mean Green Spring Clean
- Greening the Urban Jungle
- 20 ways to celebrate Earth Day
- EHAP Successes!
- More!
View this issue as well at http://issuu.com/cleannovascotia/docs/candgspring08
e-Waste
While we didn't manage to fit our article about electronics waste in this issue, please remember that there are new regulations governing the disposal of electronics waste.
But consider the three Rs as well:
- Doyou need a new electronic gadget? REDUCE!
- Is there still life in your old one? There are a number of agencies that refurbish computers to give them new life, including the REBOOT program at Lake City Employment in Dartmouth, and the Department of Education. REUSE!
- Take old electronics past their useful life to one of the recycling depots across the province. RECYCLE!
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Vol. 3 No. 2 Winter 2007
Download the PDF file (1.2Mb) to read these stories:
- Consultation Process helps individuals to make a difference: A spate of good news announcements from the Nova Scotia Department of Environment and Labour in November has demonstrated that citizen and community input is (mostly) working. First, the Department announced that it would be examining a new strategy to deal with used tires. …
- Flip flops and snow--Editorial by Charlene Boyce Young: We received an email the other day from Lise Richard, who worked with us last summer. Right now, she’s part of the Youth Delegation in Bali. Ordinarily when Canadians travel overseas they are proud to declare their nationality. Apparently this trip is an exception to that rule….
- dec 15-jan 15—30 days of green ways: Calendar supplement
- Udder Complexity: Which kind of milk container is the best? How many people purchase paperboard cartons because they know that all plastic is evil? If you’re laughing, don’t be too quick to judge (this humble writer may have been one of those deluded souls until recently). Clean Nova Scotia has received this question from more than one member of the public: “What is the most environmental way to get milk?”…
- School Resources:
- Des Raps Verts! Clean Nova Scotia is delivering its energy conservation education program throughout Nova Scotia’s French School Board this year. We are pleased to present some of the work of our étudiants célèbres!
Équipe Énergie!
Rap de départ...
Nous sommes l’équipe d’énergie
De l’école Rose-des-Vents
Rap... - IDLE-FREE Teacher’s Resource Kit: Clean Nova Scotia is proud to present a free resource to help your school take action on air pollution and climate change—the IDLE-FREE Teacher’s Resource Kit. Download yours now from www.clean.ns.ca/idlefree....
- Conserve Nova Scotia’s It Starts with Me fundraising campaign…
- Des Raps Verts! Clean Nova Scotia is delivering its energy conservation education program throughout Nova Scotia’s French School Board this year. We are pleased to present some of the work of our étudiants célèbres!
- Waste Reduction Week Highlights: Thank you to everyone who participated in Waste Reduction Week events! We hope your participation will inspire you to remember that REDUCE is the first R, all through the year. Every week is waste reduction week at Clean Nova Scotia—we hope you feel the same!...
- A sustainable HRM—by design By Aaron Veinotte: As climate change and other environmental issues grow in the public consciousness, the notion of building sustainable cities has taken hold around the world. The most startling example of sustainable urban design is the “Chicago Spire” condominium tower…
- the everyday environmentalist | I feel a storm a-comin’ by Kari Riddell: Yes, I was one of the people who happened to be at the grocery store the night before the “hurricane” was to hit Nova Scotia at the beginning of November. I was genuinely in need of groceries, but unlike everyone else in the store I didn’t have my cart filled to the brim with bottles of water. …
- Halifax’s new Citadel High—a student’s eye view: In which world traveler, CNS volunteer and intrepid reporter Poppy Riker leads the reader on a tour of the new talk-of-the-town high school: After a year’s delay from the originally planned finish date, Citadel High School is now open and thriving. The students in the crowded halls between classes are similar to what overbooked bumper cars would be like without the steering wheel, but with just as much yelling. Because of the 1400 students, the school has a lot more life than the first impression we were given on the last days of summer….
- Filling bellies, not dumps Six days a week, year round, FEED NOVA SCOTIA performs a salvage mission that over the course of a year diverts tonnes of food and associated waste from landfills and redirects it to hungry people. Rachel Boehm Van Harmelen, former communications manager for Feed Nova Scotia and freelance writer, spoke to Dianne Swinemar, Executive Director of FEED NOVA SCOTIA. She got the following answers to some of our questions about how FEED NOVA SCOTIA meets their waste challenges….
- Meet two of the 14 voluntary Board members who direct Clean Nova Scotia’s activities: Sean Foreman and Kevin Brooks….
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Autumn 2007: Vol. 3 No. 1
Clean and Green: Autumn 2007 (2.4Mb PDF)
Clean and Green text only (105K Word file)
Waste Reduction Week is October 15-21. Some of you may not already know that Clean Nova Scotia was the original initiator of this now-national event. Within this issue, you will find information about ways to reduce waste at home and on the road, renovating or in daily living. The Climate Change Centre highlights the connections between waste and climate change, and former staff member Graham Noble, who used to live in Japan, gives us a glimpse into a society that puts an even higher priority on diversion than we do!
- Reintroducing REDUCE: Waste Reduction Week 2007
- Nova Scotia Youth Conservation Corps: Summer RoundUp
Be inspired by the words of the students who worked here in the summer of 2007. - How to Make a Fish! Waste Reduction Week Activity for Ages 7-12
- WIN with Re-Tee Challenge!
- Waste & Climate Change: Campuses make the connection!
- Driving too fast? Idling? Low tires? That's wasting fuel!
- A Social Justice Take on Waste Reduction--Habitat for Humanity's REStore
- CNS Recommends: Movies, websites, magazines
- A Mighty Wind--Wind energy takes Nova Scotia by storm.
- How to dispose of a single sock in Japan
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Summer 2007: Vol. 2 No. 4
Clean and Green: Summer 2007 (1.6 Mb PDF)
INSIDE!
- Putting the pinch on the chinch: Warm summer days put stress on your lawn, creating opportunities for turf-eating insects like the chinch bug.
- No Issue is an Island: Have you ever encountered a person who, when asked about their environmental impact, is quick to respond, "Oh, yes, I recycle." As if that 's the end of the story! More.
- Easy Ways to Green Your World: Wherever you live in the province, we have a way you can join in!
- Cleaning the Air: Learn the easy things you can do to help air quality in Nova Scotia.
- World Oceans Day 2007: Third Fantastic Year of Flashy, Trashy Fish: World Oceans Day, June 8, is an important part of Environment Week. It is a day to celebrate the vital role oceans play in our lives. Clean Nova Scotia commemorated World Oceans Day 2007 by hosting our third annual Fish with Flare art exh! ibit and award ceremony. Check out the photos!
- CNS Recommended Reads: A few new titles to consider at your book club!
- Road Show aims to Get the Word Out: As we did last year, Clean Nova Scotia will again travel the province, visiting festivals and exhibitions to "Get the Word Out" about energy efficiency, air quality and renewable energy. Starting in July. 'Getting the Word Out' will travel to nine different counties over the course of two months. Learn when we'll be in your neighborhood! (Come out and say hi, and get a free CFL)
- Community Hero Profiles:
- Myriam Beaulne
- CNS' Preston Staff & Volunteers
- Ecole LeMarchant-St. Thomas School
- Photos from the Great Green Get-Down
- The Everyday Environmentalist urges you to tune in to get turned on about switching off.
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Spring 2007: Vol. 2 No. 3
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Welcome to the spring issue! Yes, we’re late, but to make up for it, we’ve jammed this issue full of information you can use. From upcoming events especially for members and friends of Clean Nova Scotia, to an overview of all the programs CNS is currently offering, to information and inspiration to make your life a bit greener, right down to what’s for brunch, it’s all inside. Please dive in, read, absorb, and comment.
It’s an exciting time to be working for the environment, and Clean Nova Scotia is always looking for ways to make our mutual journey toward a sustainable green province and world easier. Your involvement helps us innovate, inspire and inform. Next year will be Clean Nova Scotia’s 20th anniversary. We encourage and challenge you, as members and friends of Clean Nova Scotia, to share this issue with one other person who is not yet a member. We have set a goal of extending our membership to an active 500 by next year. Whatever level of involvement you choose, your membership gives us a voice and a powerful mandate.
We are also looking for ways to better represent your interests and wishes. Please let us know how we can help you. Address any member suggestions or comments to riddell@clean.ns.ca
Looking ahead, the next issue is our Environment Week issue, and before that, you’ll be receiving an invite you to our annual fundraising event, this year titled RHYTHM & ROOTS: The Great Green Getdown! We’ve got a fun new take on the regular old silent auction, plus the “cool groove” of the Mellotones to entertain you. Read more inside!
Contents:
- Membership Drive Kicks Off
- Events to Green Your Life
- Clean Nova Scotia Now
- Meet the Board introduces Candace Stevenson and Martha Grantham
- Peggy Cameron: Community Hero
- SOCs: Key to Making Renewables Work
- Spring Resolutions: What we’re doing and what we pledge to do!
- Green Eggs and Ham