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Volume 12 Number 7 * September 1997
Eric Draper (left) puts peat moss into an Ecoflow installation. Ecoflow uses peat moss in a plastic container to filter sewage. It is a compact and efficient substitute for conventional septic systems. For story, see Feature Supplement, page 6. Photo: Carla Brown.
Information pickets are continuing every weekend outside Loblaws and other stores owned by George Weston Ltd. in the effort to stop the company's support of logging in Ontario's oldgrowth forests. For more information, contact OPIRG-Carleton's Forestry Working Group at 520-2757 or 567-7244.

FEATURE SUPPLEMENT — Green Economics


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FEATURE SUPPLEMENT — Green Economics

Fifth PERCshop Coming Up
The Peace and Environment Resource Centre's fifth workshop in the series "Skills for Grassroots Organizing" will be held Thursday, October 2, 7-9:30 p.m., at PERC, 174 First Avenue, top floor. The workshop will be on "Connecting the Dots: Planning and Implementation." There is no charge. Call 230-4590 in advance to reserve a space.

This issue on alternative economics is the third in a three-part series on sustainable economics supported by the Canada Trust Friends of the Environment Foundation. We look at some economic approaches to sustaining and restoring the earth, and problems with current developments.


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