Durham Environment Watch

 

 
 

 

 

Last updated
11/18/2008


NOTICEBOARD


How you can get involved
 


Upcoming Council Meetings

  • Clarington GPA meeting   - Monday, November 17, 2008 - 9:30 a.m.
    AGENDA
    (short - 3 pgs)      AGENDA  (long - 133 pgs)   
    Council Chambers, Municipal Administrative Centre, 40 Temperance Street, Bowmanville, ON L1C 3A6 

    • ** See Delegation Information. You may speak at Council or GPA meetings (now a 5 minute limit). GPA is General Purpose and Administration Committee (includes all Councillors and Mayor)


  • Durham Regional Council - Wednesday, November 19, 2008 - 10:00 a.m. 
    Council Chambers, Administration Headquarters, 605 Rossland Road East, Whitby, Ontario 
     
    *Joint Waste Management Group (JWMG) - meetings scheduled for Tuesday, December 9th and Tuesday, January 6th have been cancelled. The next JWMG meeting will take place in February. The date and location of this meeting will be confirmed at a later date.
    Terms of Reference and Minutes from all JWMG meetings published to date.

    (Proposed meeting schedule for JWMG)     


    Upcoming Regional Committee meetings  Check agendas for individual meetings:
     

    Wednesday, November 19/08 Regional Council  10 a.m.
    Tuesday, November 25/08 Planning
    Wednesday, November 26/08 Works
    Thursday, November 27/08 Health & Social Services
    Thursday, November 27/08 Durham Environmental Advisory Committee (DEAC)

     


ALERT

 


***Ontario shifts toward Zero Waste approach

The Ontario Ministry of Environment has released Toward a Zero Waste Future --
a discussion paper that moves from EPR (Extended Producer Responsibility)
as a conceptual model to discussing the policy and practical issues that have
to be addressed to make EPR a functional and meaningful approach.


The Ministry has posted Toward a Zero Waste Future (0.3 MB) on the Environmental Bill of Rights registry.

The public comment period ends on January 15, 2009.
 


See New Videos

NEW:

60 Minutes Where do the millions of computer monitors, cell phones and

other electronic refuse our society generates end up? Scott Pelley reports.



transcript

 ******************************

NEW:

The Disappearing Male - A CBC Documentary
"We are conducting a vast toxicological experiment in which our children and our
children's children are the experimental subjects.
" Dr. Herbert Needleman

 

The Disappearing Male

View the entire film.
43:43 min

  

The Disappearing Male

View the trailer.
2:33 min

 ******************************

More VIDEOS
See our Photo Gallery and Video page


 To sign up for alerts, join the DEW group
(not a discussion list, simply an alert/updates list for members)
or send request to
info@durhamenvironmentwatch.org

 

Join the new DEW Facebook group
 
Durham Environment Watch on Facebook
  NEW
 



Home | Noticeboard | Zero Waste | Ethanol | Links


Copyright Durham Environment Watch. All Rights Reserved
DEW Mail