Former Ward 2 City Councillor Dan Moziar, offers his perspective on the organics presentation held in Council Chambers October 29, 2007.
A number of organic technology providers participated in Monday’s meeting, each giving a 10 minute presentation about its proposed technology. Options included rebuilding the composting facility using the same technology (aerobic composting in channels), as [...]
Entries from October 2007
October 31, 2007
Moziar comments on organics presentation
October 30, 2007
From David Suzuki’s office
We’re famous.
Attached is the letter of congratulations to City Council from David Suzuki’s office and they wanted to interview me about our story as well.
It’s apparently going to be up in both audio and visual format (!) on their website this week so I’ll keep you posted.
Thanks for your help in making the policy change [...]
October 29, 2007
Guelph councillor wins award
This posting originally appeared on The Fountain Pen:
Guelph City Councillor Vicki Beard has been recognized by the North American Pollinator Protection Campaign (NAPPC) for her work on pollinator habitats. Beard, one of five individuals from Canada, the United States and Mexico, was presented with the 2007 Pollinator Advocate Award in Washington D.C. on 24 October [...]
October 26, 2007
Bees Knees for City Duo
The following article appeared in the October 26 edition of the Guelph Tribune:
Two Guelphites were honoured in different ways this week for their work in promoting and conserving pollinators.
Ward 2 city councillor Vicki Beard was honoured for her commitment to pollinator conservation at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. on Wednesday. This, while University of Guelph [...]
October 26, 2007
Wastewater pipeline
I attended the Wastewater Treatment Master Plan ‘public information centre’ on October 24th and was shocked to see that one of the proposed ‘feasible’ solutions to Guelph’s sewage capacity problem is a pipeline to the Great Lakes (either Lake Erie, Ontario or Huron). It was a long hard fight to get a mega-pipeline removed as [...]