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Lundi 19 mai 2008 à 21h00 à Canal D
Il devient de plus en plus évident qu’appliquer aux écosystèmes agricoles la même logique économique, les mêmes schèmes de croissance-performance-productivité qu’aux usines de souliers est une maladie mentale qui pourrait mener les communautés humaines à leur perte.
Au Québec, où 20 fermes disparaissent désormais à chaque [...]

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par Éric Proulx
Géographe, agriculteur et fromager
Au Québec, les 10 prochaines années en agriculture seront déterminantes pour notre territoire. Les régions devront choisir : soit s’engager sur la pente d’une désertification par le maintien d’une agriculture productiviste condamnée à se féodaliser ; soit, adopter un modèle pluriel, qui saura être une source de création de [...]

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The decision to cut down Vancouver’s oldest and most photographed tree has people in mourning.
Vancouver’s Park Board commissioners voted unanimously this week to cut down the city’s most beloved hollow tree and put up a memorial in its place. The giant red cedar has stood for more than 1,000 years in Vancouver’s Stanley Park, but [...]

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The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, January and February.
Much of Nova Scotia, Saskatchewan, Alberta and parts of British Columbia and [...]

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The most direct shipping route from Europe to Asia is fully clear of ice for the first time since records began, the European Space Agency (Esa) says.
Historically, the Northwest Passage linking the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans has been ice-bound through the year.
But the agency says ice cover has been steadily shrinking, and this summer’s reduction [...]

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About 1,000 mink are still on the lam after 5,000 to 6,000 of the carnivorous mammals were freed from their cages on a mink farm, in eastern Newfoundland over the weekend. Police are considering the possibility they were freed by a disgruntled employee rather than by animal rights activists. “They’re a nuisance in the community [...]

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Ed Stelmach fired warning shots Friday at provincial leaders in advance of next week’s premiers’ conference, cautioning them not to “mess with Alberta” on climate change because it could devastate economies across Canada.
The Alberta premier and his intergovernmental relations minister also urged premiers to “move into the 21st century” and sign onto the Alberta-B.C. trade [...]

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Un danger guette les champs de soya du Québec
[PC] Les autorités québécoises affirment qu’une épidémie du puceron du soya est en vigueur au Québec au point où l’état d’urgence est étendu à toutes les régions, sans exception.
Claude Parent, agronome au ministère de l’Agriculture, des Pêcheries et de l’Alimentation, rapporte que les infestations, en [...]

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Qui sommes-nous ?
Nous sommes d’abord celle et ceux qui ont fondé Les Amis de la Terre de Québec au printemps 1978. Nous sommes aussi une partie locale d’un tout beaucoup plus large constitué par le réseau international des Amis de la Terre international.
Celle et ceux qui ont fondé l’association de Québec étaient sept dont [...]

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Yves Paccalet est l’auteur d’une soixantaine d’ouvrages sur l’écologie, dont de nombreux en collaboration avec le commandant Cousteau.
Le « philosophe écologiste » déclare bien que « nous ne nous en tirerons que par la vertu d’une décroissance raisonnable. » mais pour aussitôt conclure : « sauf que c’est impossible parce que personne n’en veut [...]

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Time may be running out for polar bears as global warming melts the ice beneath their paws.
Restrictions or bans on hunting in recent decades have helped protect populations, but many experts say the long-term outlook is bleak.
An estimated 20,000-25,000 bears live about the Arctic - in Canada, Russia, Alaska, Greenland and Norway - and countries [...]

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A team of U.S. scientists has found that “dirty snow” is a surprisingly significant contributor to global warming, and is urging Canada — as “custodian” of a vast, snowbound nation — to lead an international cleanup.

The researchers have measured, in the first comprehensive study of its kind, how snowy landscapes tainted by carbon particles from [...]

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For years, scientists have known that compared with the rest of the world, Canada is a low-gravity area - although nowhere close to the zero-G phenomenon of space travel - but now, researchers have discovered that this country’s peculiar gravitational field is even more pronounced in two northerly regions.
While most of this country was [...]

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The federal government’s plan to fight global warming was under fire at the Green Living Show in Toronto on Saturday.
Among the critics were leaders of the federal Liberal Party, the Green Party and the NDP.
NDP Leader Jack Layton didn’t hold back in criticizing Ottawa’s new environmental plan.
“Al Gore called it a fraud. David [...]

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Global warming.
It seems to be a hot topic with politicians lately.
It certainly sparked some controversy at last week’s Green Living Show after former U.S. Vice-President Al Gore blasted Ottawa’s greenhouse action plan calling it a “complete and total fraud” and “misleading” to Canadians in his message he delivered to a sold-out crowd.
The Tories’ [...]

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[Maybe nature is trying to tell them something-ed]
Canadian coastguards are trying to rescue the occupants of about 100 boats carrying seal hunters trapped by pack ice off the country’s eastern coast.
Several of the boats are threatened with damage or sinking, and at least one crew had to abandon ship.
Fishermen have described conditions as [...]

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It was a bright idea for its time, but after more than a century of lighting up our homes it will soon be lights out for the wasteful “Edison” bulb.
The province said yesterday it will become the first major jurisdiction in North America to ban conventional incandescent bulbs and other inefficient lighting technologies by 2012 [...]

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Canada’s construction boom came to an abrupt end in February as the value of building permits fell by more than a fifth from January.
Municipalities issued $4.9 billion worth of building permits in February, down 22.4 per cent from January and 12 per cent below last year’s monthly average, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
The drop, the fastest [...]

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OTTAWA — A key air pollutant increased, greenhouse gas emissions rose and water quality guidelines were exceeded at most monitoring sites across the country between 1990 and 2004, despite government undertakings to improve environmental conditions.
Environment Canada’s second annual report on environmental sustainability indicators found that human exposure to ground-level ozone increased an average of [...]

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OTTAWA (CP) - Protecting the environment is important, but it shouldn’t come at the cost of Canadian businesses, says federal Labour Minister Jean-Pierre Blackburn.
The Conservative government is expected this week to table clean-air legislation that would avoid setting fixed targets for businesses to reduce their greenhouse-gas emissions.
Opposition parties and environmentalists are critical of [...]

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