Sustainable Montreal

Indiginous Peoples Will Determine the Fate of the Planet

Mark Berger — Tue, 30 Apr 2013 14:12:33 +0000

Pledge your support for the Earth and Indiginous peoples at the Skills for Solidarity web site. Source: The Guardian …contrary to the myth that Indigenous peoples leech off the state, resources taken from their lands have in fact been subsidizing the Canadian economy. In their haste to get at that wealth, the government has been [...]

Arab Countries Accept and Embrace Peak Oil

Mark Berger — Mon, 22 Apr 2013 01:09:24 +0000

This is a major shift by the Arab countries – away from denial and towards acceptance of the Peak Oil (PO) narrative. When will other Oil producing countries like Mexico and Canada follow suit? When will Montreal start to make serious infrastructure investments for a time when oil and gas are prohibitively expensive or collapse [...]

CSA’s now taking orders for summer season

Mark Berger — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 19:56:24 +0000

Community Supported Agriculture, or CSA’s, are a great way to support local farmers, eat local and organic produce, and make our region more sustainable. Source: Equiterre The family farmers in our community supported agriculture (CSA) network are taking orders for the summer season of deliveries. From June to October, nearly 100 farms will deliver weekly [...]

Geodesic domes + Earthships = Valhalla

Mark Berger — Sun, 24 Mar 2013 23:27:12 +0000

This local inspiration combines some excellent ideas. Hopefully, there is synergy in the combination and their vision can be achieved. However, the Valhalla “movement” appears high on marketing, youth, style and organic weed. When I contacted them to offer my services to help teach them Aquaponics (something people in the U.S. are paying me to [...]

Urban Farm School

Mark Berger — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 16:52:55 +0000

Montreal could use an urban farm school that combines all these skills like permaculture, beekeeping, Aquaponics, composting and seed saving all into one curriculum. Source: Occupy Monsanto Growing Our Local Food Infrastructure: Urban Farm School Opens in Asheville NC (via http://www.occupymonsanto360.org) By Brett Gustafson Though it sometimes seems like our evil frankenfood corporate overlords, such [...]

Transition towards an ecological and social economy

Mark Berger — Wed, 27 Feb 2013 16:19:18 +0000

This is late notice, but here it is anyway: Source: Equiterre A talk by Laure Waridel, cofounder of Equiterre, eco-sociologist and author Wednesday, February 27, 2013 5:00 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Concordia University, room H-763 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd. West Hardly a day goes by without some new study being published that demonstrates the enormity [...]

The Future of Sustainable Business

Mark Berger — Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:00:18 +0000

Adam Werbach has been at the vanguard of the sustainability movement since high school when he founded a national organization of over 30,000 student volunteers who mobilized around environmental projects. A few years later, at the age of 23, he was elected the national President of the Sierra Club – the youngest in its 100+ [...]

Biologists See Collapse of Global Civilization Near

Mark Berger — Fri, 15 Feb 2013 19:38:10 +0000

Too bad this wasn’t reported in the newspapers or 6 o’clock news… Source: The Royal Society of Biological Sciences Virtually every past civilization has eventually undergone collapse, a loss of socio-political-economic complexity usually accompanied by a dramatic decline in population size [1]. Some, such as those of Egypt and China, have recovered from collapses at [...]

Tar Sands Oil Debate Coming to Montreal

Mark Berger — Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:14:06 +0000

Source: Equiterre Even if it doesn’t spill, it will already have been an environmental disaster. Last fall, the pipeline company Enbridge asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for permission to: reverse the flow in a section of its Line 9 pipeline use the pipeline to carry heavy tar sands crude from Alberta through Ontario to [...]

The Great Waves of Change

Mark Berger — Sun, 03 Feb 2013 18:21:33 +0000

This book is one of the most powerful books that I have ever read. Already I’ve read it twice and I will read it for a third time this year. Published in 2008, this book is now available for FREE download. To get your free copy of the book, go to: GreatWavesOfChange.org What is coming [...]