National Home Show – February 19-28, 2010
“Managing Mercury in Your Home” at the Live Green Toronto Pavilion
Direct Energy Centre, Exhibition Place
100 Princes’ Boulevard, Toronto, Ontario
The National Home Show is your all-access pass to more than 700 home and
garden specialists offering all the expert advice for whatever home project
you have planned this year.
When planning your home projects, take the time to consider how you can
improve your environmental footprint. Come visit Pollution Probe’s booth —
Managing Mercury in Your Home — at the Live Green Toronto
Pavilion. Swing by to chat with representatives about how to manage
mercury in your home. Learn how to consider mercury in making choices for a
healthy fish diet; choose mercury-free alternatives for products in your
home; how to properly dispose of mercury-containing products and how to
handle mercury-containing products when they break. Educational materials,
pamphlets and brochures will be available for you to take home to share with
your family and neighbours.
Check back frequently for updates on Pollution Probe’s involvement at the
National Home Show. For show hours,
click here.
For more information, contact Julie Sommerfreund at
jsommerfreund@pollutionprobe.org or 416-926-1907 x234.
For
electronic copies of the materials provided at the event visit
http://www.pollutionprobe.org/Publications/Mercury.htm
The Use of
Mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM) -
How We Can Play a Role in Creating Solutions
Monday, February 8, 2010
7:00–9:00 p.m. (refreshments at 6:30 p.m.)
Crowne Plaza Ottawa (101 Lyon Street, Ottawa, Ontario), Richelieu Room
Please join us on Monday, February 8, 2010 as
our panel of experts present the challenges we face in addressing ASGM and
how we can all make a difference. We look forward to a lively discussion!
Click here
for more details.
For a Fact
Sheet on the use of mercury in Artisanal and Small-Scale Gold Mining (ASGM)
visit
http://www.pollutionprobe.org/Publications/Mercury.htm
Public
Outreach and Technology Demonstration
"Better
environmental performance through advanced technologies – how your next car
will be cheaper on gas and cleaner for the environment”.
THIS FORUM HAS BEEN POSTPONED.
PLEASE CLICK
HERE FOR DETAILS.
Metro Toronto Convention Centre
Constitution Hall – Room 106
255 Front Street West, Toronto
(Two blocks west of Union Station)
North Building
Transport Canada and Pollution Probe are co-hosting this public outreach
event on Saturday, November 21, 2009
Technology Demonstration 1:00 – 6:00 p.m.
Speaker Panel of Experts 2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Canadian consumer interest in vehicles that consume less fuel and produce
fewer emissions is growing. This increasing consumer demand, combined with
government policies and programs to reduce vehicle fuel consumption and
emissions has led automakers to orient their new model engineering and
design agendas around environmental performance, meaning advanced
technologies could soon be incorporated into new vehicles.
Join
us to find out about new vehicle technologies and to discuss the potential
environmental and financial results these technologies can deliver.
No
admission fee. Registration is not necessary.
For more information, contact Rebecca Spring at
rspring@pollutionprobe.org
or 416-926-1907 x238.
*Agenda to
follow
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Transports Canada et Pollution Probe seront conjointement les hôtes d’un
événement de sensibilisation du public dont le thème sera : « Une meilleure
performance sur la plan environnemental grâce à des technologies de pointe –
découvrez comment votre prochaine voiture consommera moins de carburant et
sera plus écologique ».
Le
samedi 21 novembre 2009
Démonstration des technologies : 13 h à 18 h
Comité d’experts : 14 h à 16 h
Palais des congrès du Toronto métropolitain
Constitution Hall – salle 106
255, rue Front ouest, Toronto
(deux pâtés de maisons à l’ouest de la gare Union),
Édifice Nord
Vous
êtes invité à assister à un événement de sensibilisation du public et à une
démonstration des technologies dont le thème sera : « Une meilleure
performance sur le plan environnemental grâce à des technologies de pointe –
découvrez comment votre prochaine voiture consommera moins de carburant et
sera plus écologique ».
Les
consommateurs canadiens démontrent un intérêt croissant pour les véhicules
qui consomment moins de carburant et qui produisent moins d’émissions. Cette
demande croissante de la part des consommateurs, jumelée aux politiques et
aux programmes gouvernementaux pour réduire la consommation de carburant et
les émissions des véhicules, a poussé les constructeurs de véhicules
automobiles à modifier les concepts de design et d’ingénierie de leurs
nouveaux modèles pour les rendre plus performants sur le plan
environnemental. Autrement dit, les technologies de pointe pourraient
bientôt être largement intégrées à la conception des nouveaux véhicules.
Joignez-vous à nous pour découvrir ces nouvelles technologies automobiles et
pour discuter des résultats qu’elles pourraient avoir sur le plan
environnemental et financier.
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a pas de droit d’entrée et il n’est pas nécessaire de s’inscrire.
Pour de plus amples renseignements, veuillez communiquer avec Rebecca Spring
par courriel à l’adresse
rspring@pollutionprobe.org
ou par téléphone en composant le 416-926-1907, poste 238.
*L’ordre du jour suivra.
The Ottawa-Gatineau
Watershed Atlas (OGWA) Project
The OGWA project funded by
GeoConnections is an exciting endeavor that will integrate watershed
management on both sides of the Ottawa River in addition to
providing a comprehensive public educational tool to improve the
management of one of the region’s most valuable resources. The
project will take an ecosystem approach, utilizing a watershed
boundary, rather than political boundaries, for the inclusion of
collaborating partners, data, and information.
Pollution Probe, in
collaboration with local partners, is developing a web atlas that
will use maps to guide community members through their watershed.
The atlas will take advantage of the sharing, exploration and
exchange of geo-spatial data amongst agencies in Ottawa-Gatineau.
Alongside the maps contextual discussion in both French and English
on water issues will be included in order to raise community
awareness and understanding.
For more information please contact:
Sasha Kebo at
skebo@pollutionprobe.org
Pollution Probe and project partners
launch the Ottawa-Gatineau Watershed Atlas: A bi-provincial water
information sharing website for the Ottawa River (January 2009)
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