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Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy (CIELAP) has just released a new report: Ontario’s Waste Management Challenge “Is Incineration an Option?”

This paper suggests that any discussion of incineration should only take place for waste that is truly residual, within a waste hierarchy framework that primarily seeks to prevent and reduce the generation of waste, and then seeks to achieve the highest possible rate of diversion.  The paper concludes with 11 recommendations for Ontario.  It, as well as our recent news release, can be downloaded from the CIELAP website.

PLANNING FOR GROWTH IN THE GREATER GOLDEN HORSESHOE
Venue: Hart House, East Common Room
Date: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Time: 1.00pm-3.00pm

In collaboration with Hart House, the students (that would include me) and faculty of the Centre for Environment undergraduate course JIE 307Y Urban Sustainability present a panel discussion on Smart Growth in Ontario, focusing on the Greenbelt, the Growth Plan for the Greater Golden Horseshoe, and municipal conformity.

Speaking at this event are:

• HANNAH EVANS, Director, Director, Partnership and Communications, Ontario Growth Secretariat;
• BRUCE KRUSCHELNICKI, Director of Planning at the City of Burlington; and
• VICTOR DOYLE of the Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing.

All are welcome, no registration required.

Formally, I am the Administration Chair of our local riding and will be the Office Staff Manager for the upcoming election.

In real life I’m a 3rd year University of Toronto Student who has a midterm about Urban Sustainability tomorrow but instead of reviewing for it is posting introductory messages about herself on the Danforth Greens Town Square.

To get a sense of my interests please feel free to check out my amateur website: http://merryconsumermass.googlepages.com, or a site me and my classmates made together: http://renewableontario.googlepages.com. Yes, making websites on googlepages is about as technologically advanced as I’ll ever get.

That is all for now. Back to the books.