Recall Notice Exchange For Canadian Dollars Final Day October 13, 2023 at Peterborough Community Savings (Alterna) 167 Brock St. Downtown Peterborough No service Fee The Kawartha Loon was introduced in 2013 in five denominations including the 1KL as shown plus a 2.50KL ,5KL,10KL and 20KL as a legal complementary currency […]
CHERYL LYON The Correction: Wrong Information in a Greenzine article The June 9, 2023 article “Local Living Through the Climate Crisis” stated that Earth “had already passed 1.5⁰C.” Globally, as an average, it has not yet passed that mark. The GREENZINE apologizes. In fact, that global average temperature went beyond […]
EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE -The best gatherings of human beings always involve food − be it friends in a cafe, happy or solemn family occasions or sharing oranges at a kids’ soccer game. But, keeping local food on our plates and supporting local farmers depends on what happens in other “Big Issues”: […]
Part 3: How to Get to The “Next Economy” EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE – Part One of this series delved into the importance of relearning and nurturing a true “sense of place” that can lead to the local knowledge, caring and action needed to re-adapt ourselves and community to worsening climate change. […]
Part 2. The Next Economy EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE − In Part One we introduced the notion of ourselves as “children of our geography,” realizing that our lives totally depend on Nature’s “economy” − the ‘community’ of sunlight, water, soil, plant life that supports all life. We introduced the term “localization.” This […]
FRED IRWIN “The Great Unraveling” is a phrase used by Richard Heinberg of the Post Carbon Institute by which he means how “the growing consequences of the climate and broader ecological emergency are expected to increasingly destabilize societies around the world….“Humanity is approaching a bottleneck, and the only way through […]
Part 1: We Are Children of Our Local Geography EDITORIAL COLLECTIVE − You know that feeling, that shimmer of recognition when you’re almost home after being away − rounding a certain bend in the road, catching the sparkle of a lake, a recognizable contour of hills, the roofline of your […]
MARILYN FREEMAN − All the COP gatherings produce a lot of hot air and not enough action to mitigate delay on the climate emergency front. Greta Thunberg, world famous youth climate activist, who is not attending COP27 this year summed it perfectly with her “Blah, blah, blah” quote. However, behind […]
MARILYN FREEMAN − I am no farmer. I can barely get veggies to grow in my backyard. But I do read science fiction and have been intrigued by tales of vertical farming in cities. Well, reality is catching up to sci fi. Perhaps the future of farming is where herbs, […]
CHERYL LYON interviews KATARINA LAAKMANN “To create a community that you enjoy living in.” With this simple phrase Trent grad Katarina Laakmann captured the essential goal of every climate crisis solution. Laakmann recently completed her Trent Centre for Community Research-project, commissioned by Transition Town Peterborough. She kindly sat down for […]
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