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POPSThe Green Driveway Author, Franke James, was interviewed on CBC radio yesterday telling the story of the struggle she had with GTA (Greater Toronto Area) bureaucrats to build a green driveway.
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POPSDeath by Prescription The author is a Canadian Federal politician who lost his teenage daughter as a result of a wrongly prescribed drug. Young was featured on TVO's "The Agenda" last evening.
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POPSSnakes swallowing kangaroos and donation overload What's the connection? Seems that a snake CAN swallow a kangaroo. But it may take weeks to digest. But Value Village CANNOT "digest" overflow donations, the aftermath of unsold "stuff" from weekend garage/yard sales! Consequently, lots and lots of perfectly good, reusable stuff ends up in the dumpster and the landfills. Any thoughts on avoiding this queueing, peak period problem?
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POPSThe Daffodil Principle A re-clip of one of my favorite, inspirational stories! It always seems to resurface and circulate each spring. At the time I re-clipped this, there were 1442 "views".
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POPSDefeat the Depression: Peak Oil This is a new Google Group with a very small membership talking about the linkage between the recession and "Peak oil"... understanding it; profiting from it.
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POPSMarch 19: St Joseph's Day (Christian) ...celebrated throughout most of Italy and by the Italian communities in North America. He was the foster father of Jesus and is the universal patron of the Catholic Church. According to legend, when a severe drought struck western Sicily in the Middle Ages, the people of that area prayed to St. Joseph asking him to intercede for them and send rain. Their prayer was granted and since then they honor St. Joseph by helping the needy in their community.
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POPSComposting dog waste Backyard solution to your dog waste woes? Mike Levenston at City Farmer, a demonstration garden and compost site run by Canada's Office of Urban Agriculture in Vancouver, B.C. lives in the city and has a dog. The solution, says Mike, is to compost dog waste in yard, using a old plastic garbage can. The folks at City Farmer developed the method, which is one of the most popular tips on the cityfarmer.org web site. The technique provides "a chance where people can have it slowly decompose in a yard and be environmentally safe."
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POPS29 Gifts in 29 Days... ANOTHER gifting initiative! Ever get the feeling that we accumulate too much stuff.... WAY too much stuff... in our western lifestyles
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