[Sust-mar] News from NSEN: Earth Day, Water Caucus, Community Gardens & More

[Tamara Lorincz]

NEWS FROM THE NOVA SCOTIA ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK

Happy Spring!  

Please find below ways you can connect with others working in our province
to protect our water and wilderness and to advance environmental &
sustainability education. 

Be sure to post your Earth Day event and find ways to celebrate the earth on
April 22nd go to the NSEN web site for details: www.nsen.ca and
http://www.earthday.ca 

One thing we can do is ditch the bottled water bottle and turn on the tap!
Find out more here: http://cupe.ca/environment/Campaign-to-Turn-on Be sure
to take the NS Litter Pledge "The Best Thing You'll Never Do"
http://www.bestthingyoullneverdo.ca

On April 27th we will be also celebrating for the first time national
Healthy Schools Day, please find out more here:
www.casle.ca/HealthySchoolsDay for information, guidelines and project ideas
for Healthy Schools Day in Canada. 


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WATER CAUCUS TELECONFERENCE ON APR. 27 & WADING IN SYMPOSIUM PRESENTATIONS
Care about water? Interested watershed management? Join our Water Caucus.
The next Water Caucus call is scheduled for April 27 at 9:30. For details to
participate please contact Chair Anna McCarron. Please mark your calendars.
Stay tuned for the details on how to participate. The presentations from the
Wading In Water Symposium are now posted on the CARP website. The link is
http://www.annapolisriver.ca/news.php?id=11 NSEN Water Caucus- Subscribe by
emailing: NSENWatershedcaucus at yahoogroups.com For more information about
this caucus, please email co-chair Mil Nickerson, Tusket River Environmental
Protection Association: miln at eastlink.ca or co-chair Anna McCarron, Email:
amccarron at clean.ns.ca
Chair: Anna McCarron, B.A., M.U.R.P.
Water Conservation Programs Coordinator
Clean Nova Scotia
126 Portland Street, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 1H8
t. (902) 420-7939
f. (902) 424-5334
toll free. 1-800-665-5377
e. amccarron at clean.ns.ca
www.clean.ns.ca


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MINING CAUCUS MONTHLY TELECONFERENCE ON MAY 5
If you are concerned about mining in the province, please consider joining
our Mining caucus. Our next Mining Caucus teleconference will be on Tuesday,
May 5 from 10:00am-11:00am. Caucus Chair: Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club
of Canada - Atlantic Chapter. NSEN Mining Caucus - Subscribe by emailing:
nsenmining-subscribe at yahoogroups.com For more information about this caucus,
please contact chair Gretchen Fitzgerald, Sierra Club of Canada-Atlantic
Chapter: gretchenf at sierraclub.ca


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ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CAUCUS MEETING ON FRI. MAY. 8
The next EEC meeting will be from 10am-12pm location TBD in Halifax. For
more information, please contact the Chair Sue Bone: Susan.Bone at EC.GC.CA
Susan Bone, Education & Engagement Unit - Atlantic with Environment Canada,
16th Floor, Queen Square 45 Alderney Drive, Dartmouth, N.S., B2Y 2N6 /
902-426-1704(ph) / 902-426-2062 (fax) NSEN Environmental Education Caucus
(EEC) - Subscribe by emailing: ns-eec at googlegroups.com
For more information about this caucus, please email nsen at cen-rce.org


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SENSE: SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION IN NOVA SCOTIA FOR EVERYONE
Our Second Annual Education for Sustainable Development Symposium
NSOLD Conference May 29-31, 2009 
 Celebrating the Past, Recognizing the Present, Envisioning the Future
2009 Outdoor Practitioners Conference
May 29 - 31st, 2009
St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Nova Scotia

Many who share in outdoor experiences can attest to a phenomenal growth in
interest, activity, and practice in Nova Scotia. This conference will serve
as a nexus-a refocusing of the vastness in outdoor experiences and
sustainability education.  Nova Scotia has taken leadership in many facets
of outdoor experiences, and we have much to celebrate, for there is a rich
history that embraces education, sustainability, recreation, community
programming, and adventure for all ages. Join us at StFX University as we
reconnect, partner, and vision for the future growth of Outdoor
Practitioners in Nova Scotia. The conference is a partnership of the Nova
Scotia Outdoor Leadership Development Program, the Nova Scotia Department of
Health Promotion and Protection and SENSE (Sustainability Education in Nova
Scotia for Everyone), a working group of the Nova Scotia Environmental
Network. We will come together as an outdoor and sustainability community to
recognize past contributions, acknowledge current realities facing outdoor
practitioners, and develop new directions for the future. Building on the
success of the 2001 Sharing the Outdoors Conference, this will be an
opportunity for fun, learning, and celebration. The conference will include
hands on experiential sessions, a trade show, an engaging series of keynote
speakers, entertainment, magic and much more including the Outdoors! For
more information contact Jody Conrad: 902.424.7589, or Sandra Fraser:
902.424.5481.

*Note: Our next Sustainability Education in NS for Everyone Advisory
Committee meeting is Weds. May 6 at 10am at the Ecology Action Centre. For
more information about this working group, please contact Janelle Frail at
esd_novascotia at lsf-lst.ca 


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UPDATE FROM OUR LAW & POLICY CAUCUS & THANK YOUS TO OUR PRO BONO STUDENTS
If you would like to join the NSEN Environmental Law & Policy Caucus, please
subscribe:
Yahoogroup link: http://ca.groups.yahoo.com/group/NSENLawCaucus/ 
Subscribe: NSENLawCaucus-subscribe at yahoogroups.ca 
Post message: NSENLawCaucus at yahoogroups.ca
About: The NSEN Environmental Law & Policy Caucus is a group of
representatives from environmental groups and interested individuals in the
Province of Nova Scotia who would like to improve federal, provincial and
municipal legislation and policies to better protect the natural environment
and achieve a sustainable future. Related Link:
http://www.nsen.ca/lawpolicy.php


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NEW - NSEN COMMUNITY GARDENS NETWORK
The NSEN Community Gardens Network is comprised representatives from
environmental groups, schools, municipalities, churches and interested
individuals in the Province of Nova Scotia who would like to create
community, school, church and urban gardens. We would like to see more
organic vegetable, flower and native plant gardens sprouting everywhere in
our communities. There are many benefits to community gardens. They can help
with food security, skills development, and neighborhood beautification.
Gardens can also help instill an environmental ethic and achieve a
sustainable future. A project of SENSE: Sustainability Education in Nova
Scotia For Everyone. Organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network:
www.nsen.ca Our goal is to establish a large community garden in the
mainland common site and to assist interested schools, churches and citizens
in creating a garden. We would like to help develop a municipal community
garden policy and a municipal food security policy to encourage greater
gardening. 

We have finally been able to set up a yahoo email group dedicated to our
work on Community Gardens. All weclome. For more information about our email
group, please go to the following link: 
Group name:    NSEN Community Gardens  
Group home page:    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSENCommunityGardens  
Subscribe:	NSENCommunityGardens-subscribe at yahoogroups.com


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Planting a Seed for Community Gardens Meeting 
+ Greening School & Day Care Grounds Presentation

Saturday, April 11, 2009  
2:00-4:00 PM  
Thomas Raddall Room, Keshen Goodman Library 330 Lacewood Drive, Halifax 

Come and "plant a seed" to help us bring to life the first community garden
in Halifax West, next to the new Mainland Common Community Centre. Find out
more about urban and school gardening possibilities. Hear from Rhea Mahar of
Evergreen Canada about how school and day cares can go greener. Join our
Community Garden Network. Project of SENSE: Sustainability Education in Nova
Scotia For Everyone. Organized by the Nova Scotia Environmental Network. For
more information, please call (902) 454-6846, email nsen at cen-rce.org or
visit our web site: www.nsen.ca Join our yahoo email group:" NSEN Community
Gardens"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NSENCommunityGardens


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Story of Stuff: Toward Sustainable Consumption and Production FILM & TALK 
Tuesday, April 14 
7:00-8:30 p.m. St. Paul's, Spryfield United Church, 173 Old Sambro Rd.,
Halifax (Near corner of Sussex St. and Rockingstone Rd.) Call (902)
477-3937. Attend this free public film & interactive, stimulating
discussion. Watch the highly acclaimed Story of Stuff short film. A critical
look at our consumption and production systems and a review our new Nova
Scotia Environmental Goals and Sustainable Prosperity Act. Draw prizes. All
welcome. For more information, please call (902) 454-6846, email
nsen at cen-rce.org or visit our web site: www.nsen.ca


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MREM Case Study Group Presentations: GHG Emissions , Biosolids, and
Reclamation Coal Mining in Nova Scotia
Friday, April 17, 2009
Room 1009, 6100 University Avenue
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building, Dalhousie University, Halifax
In the Master of Resource and Environmental Management Program, the core
courses are designed to allow students to explore the important dimensions
of environmental management and resource management cases.  Understanding
the bio-physical, socio-political and law and policy dimensions will
increase the likelihood that successful resolutions to the cases can be
achieved.  The results of the investigations of the student teams will be
presented at this workshop. Students explore different cases every year and
prepare comprehensive written and oral presentations over the course of the
term. 

Implications of GHG Emissions Regulations in Nova Scotia
9:00-10:00	Presentation of findings, conclusions and recommendations
10:00-10:30	Questions and discussion

10:30-10:45	Break

Halifax Regional Municipality and Biosolids Application on Nova Scotia
Farmland 
10:45-11:45	Presentation of findings, conclusions and recommendations
11:45-12:15	Questions and discussion

"Reclamation" Coal Mining in Cape Breton
1:15-2:15	Presentation of findings, conclusions and recommendations
2:15-2:45	Questions and discussions

2:45-3:00	Break

3:00-4:00	General discussion and comments 

Open to the general public. Free session. More information, please contact
Brenda Smart, School for Resource and Environmental Studies:
brenda.smart at dal.ca
http://sres.management.dal.ca/Files/CaseStudies.pdf


ENJOY!

Tamara Lorincz, BA, BComm, LLB, MBA
Executive Director (NSEN)
Nova Scotia Environmental Network 
55 Willowbend Ct. 
Halifax, NS Canada B3M 3L3
Phone: 902-454-6846
Fax: 902-454-6841
Email: nsen at cen-rce.org 
Web Site: www.nsen.ca
*NSEN: Connecting for a Sustainable Future*