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JOIN THE PREPPERS? THE SURVIVALISTS? PATRICIA REMY - Wow. I've learned a lot this afternoon. What to pack in my Bug-outbag. What kind of place to look for as a secret refuge. What sort of supplies to stockpile. Food, water, meds, weapons… Just google PREPPERS. What I like about the Preppers/Survivalists is their willingness to contemplate disaster and catastrophe, their refusal to deny the probability of a SFHF event (the Schlock Finally Hits the Fan). If you read the document on the website indicated under globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm, recommended on page 23 “Still Time to Make a Choice”, you will know that an increase of 1° C. in the Earth's average temperature is likely to hit the USA as a whole to the extent that Katrina slammed New Orleans. This gives you an inkling of what might go down. Our chances, by the way, of avoiding that increase of 1° C. are zilch. It is going to happen. Bless the Preppers/Survivalists for realizing and drawing attention to that.

The Preppers want to hold out for several months until order is restored. The Survivalists are less hopeful. They are priming themselves for a longer haul. If the average global temperature goes up by more than 1°C., summers in the temperate regions will become 40° C. plus affairs. Crops will bake in the fields, forests will wilt and burn, rivers will dwindle to a trickle.

The Survivalists could move north to the eastern Arctic and rely on re-learned Stone Age skills. Berrens (the website!) suggests that they might have to avoid invading armies from the northwest and south.

There will be mass deaths from hunger and thirst. The three day supply chain will break down. Social order and cohesion will wither. Infrastructure (communications, transport), institutions (e.g. health care, schools), banks, and businesses will collapse. Desperate millions from the nations nearer the equator will head for the temperate latitudes. Here's the good news: If carbon emissions can be reduced by 60% by 2050 (and there is a 93% chance of that, given we do the right thing), matters will at least not get worse. But they won't be better.

Even if the Preppers are right and there is a civilization after SFHF, it will be a different world. Recovery will take a long time. At best, it will go on for decades, even centuries.

The world after the 1-2° C. warming damage will not sustain 7.5 billion humans. It will sustain, at the most, 2 billion. I've heard estimates as low as 100-200 million.

And the super-rich? You can't eat stock options. But they do buy influence. Will they have retreated to the bunker? Will they emerge, plant gardens supplied by the UNESCO seed bank on the then temperate Svalbard, and share their food?

There is an alternative. It's called Transition. We have 30 years to build a resilient community, learn to eat and produce more locally, teach our children the skills they will need, develop frugal and sustainable life-styles, re-connect with the Earth. For now, I'll stick to that. Probably näive.

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2 - 4 - 6 - 8 (°C) When will we disintegrate? Please, please click on globalwarming.berrens.nl/globalwarming.htm The document you find there will give you a degreeby-degree account of what global warming means.

The given scenario depends on whether it exceeds the limitation of 1.5°C, the constraint for which the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change appeals, or increases by 2, 4, or even 6 Centigrade degrees.

But let's maintain a little optimism. The following are quotes from the Conference Press Release, Oct 8, 2018, Summary for Policymakers of IPCC Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5°C approved by governments, Incheon, Republic of Korea.: “Limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require rapid, far-reaching and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society, the IPCC said in a new assessment. With clear benefits to [both] people and natural ecosystems, limiting global warming to 1.5°C compared to 2°C could go hand in hand with ensuring a more sustainable and equitable society.”

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"Every extra bit of warming matters, especially since warming of 1.5°C or higher increases the risk associated with long-lasting or irreversible changes, such as the loss of some ecosystems.”

Limiting global warming would also give people and ecosystems more room to adapt and remain below relevant risk thresholds… The report also examines pathways available to limit warming to 1.5°C, what it would take to achieve them and what the consequences could be. "The good news is that some…are already underway… but they would need to accelerate."

The report finds that limiting global warming to 1.5°C would require "rapid and far-reaching" transitions in land, energy, industry, buildings, transport, and cities. Global net human-caused emissions of carbon dioxide (CO2) would need to fall by about 45 percent from 2010 levels by 2030, reaching 'net zero' around 2050. This means that any remaining emissions would need to be balanced by removing CO2 from the air.

"Limiting warming to 1.5°C is possible within the laws of chemistry and physics, but doing so would require unprecedented changes.”

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FOOD

Putting the Idea into Practice: A Day at Chris' and John's Farm PATRICIA REMY - One lovely September day, I visited Christine and John O'Dea at their farm out Hastings way.

They are a recently retired couple living their dream. Both have extensive former lives and bought their farm-on-thehill together in 2009, just a year after getting married. They share a common vision about what the good life, a life in harmony with the ecological requirements of our good planet Earth, could be. They stress that their efforts are very much a work in progress.

Their first summer was spent erecting fencing and readying the barn for their horses. Chris ran a small boarding stable prior to the move and the clients' horses moved with them to the new location. Over the next nine years they had varying numbers of steeds, including two donkeys, in residence. At present, the equines number five-- two Haflingers, are new arrivals and the only workers. Bonnie and Clyde will pull the manure spreader and haul firewood.

Standing near the horse barn at the top of the hill, I can see an approximately ten-acre woodlot stretched out below. The adjacent hay fields are currently rented to a nearby farmer.

The windfall and standing dead trees are enough to provide heat in winter. A few maples are tapped to produce syrup for home use.

Initially, the acreage was covered in tall grass. Several years' time and abundant horse manure turned a number of plots into garden beds. For the last eight years Chris has been expanding her organic garlic plot. This fall, roughly 2,000 bulbs will be planted. Edible landscaping is expanded annually: red currant bushes, blackberries, raspberries, haskap berries, rhubarb, grapes, cherry, apple and pear trees, peach and plum trees (grown from seed), sea buckthorn, elderberries and gooseberries..

John shows me the vegetable garden. It is overgrown with what one commonly designates as weeds. At first, John explains, they tried to keep the beds weed-free. Their son planted a plot nearby. Living and working away from the farm left him little time to tend it “properly”. The great

revelation: Their son's wild garden yielded as much as Chris' carefully cultivated rows.

Since then, Chris lets the veggies grow wild. John and I harvest a basketful of tomatoes, which at lunch prove to be bursting with freshness and flavour.

Chris and John have recently shifted to more foraging. Who knew: The very weeds most people try to eradicate are more nutritious than many of the common vegetables they are trying to grow. The added bonus is that they appear without having to be planted! As we walk back toward the house, John points out several free growing weeds and herbs, which he and Chris use either as green vegetables or as ingredients in their salads, or they dehydrate them. A few are tinctured for their medical properties. All are found within a stone's throw of the front door: stinging nettle, dandelion, red clover, pigweed, lamb's quarters, creeping bellflower, violets, hostas (yes, they are edible), beebalm, plantain, catnip, oxeye daisies, horseweed, pineapple weed, goldenrod, tiger lily, catnip, oxeye daisies, horseweed, pineapple weed, goldenrod, tiger lily, motherwort. In my own backyard at home, I constantly rip out reams of Creeping Charlie. Here I discover that it makes a delicious salad green or tea. I may never shop for leafy greens again!!!

There is always something to do, whether it is related to maintenance of the buildings, caring for the horses and chickens, managing the woodlot, repairing the fencing, amending the soil, or to the gathering, preservation, and preparation of food. Some things stay the same: A forager/farmer's work is never done! But there's always opportunity, and sometimes, even time to smell the roses.

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What a Waste!? Reducing the Food We Throw Out BILL EEKHOF - Laurie Westaway gets angry when she sees what's being thrown out in people's trash. Lily Hamill agrees it's a real waste.

Both women are upset that good food is needlessly – and increasingly – being thrown out in the garbage. Nearly half of all wasted food comes from homes and, according to one estimate, for every six bags of groceries we buy, on average, one will get thrown away – untouched.

“We're not just wasting food, but we're wasting all the resources that went into growing and producing that food,” notes Westaway, Lead Waste Reducer from Wasteaway.

Wasted resources include the water, land and labour needed to produce food. There's also lost landfill space to dispose of food that could be turned into compost/organics; instead, it rots and emits methane gas that warms the planet at a faster rate than carbon dioxide. On the economic side, the cost of wasted food in Canada is pegged at $31 billion, equal to 40 per cent of all food produced in Canada. And there's the human toll: good food being thrown out while other people do not have enough money to eat properly.

“What does our waste say about our society, and what does your waste say about you,” Westaway asks two dozen people in attendance tonight (Sept. 27, 2018). “Remember, it's only waste when you've thrown it out.”

Westaway and Hamill, an Education/Communications Officer with the County of Peterborough, are two of the speakers at the Food: Too Good To Waste event hosted by Peterborough Public Health. It's an event to educate and inspire change around needless food waste in our community, something Hamill drives home to her audience.

At the County, “waste audits” are routinely done – going through people's garbage and separating items into different categories to see what's in the waste stream. Doing these audits helps waste management officials like Hamill see what is going to landfill and, when it comes to food waste, the results are disturbing: • Locally, half the weight of a garbage bag is organics, including fruits, vegetables, meats, packaged foods, sandwiches and other thrown-out food.

• Approximately 5,800 metric tonnes of wasted food is

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landfilled each year in the Peterborough area, equivalent to filling 650 garbage trucks.

• The estimated value of food being thrown out in Peterborough City and County ranges from $18.6 million to $71 million per year.

What's to be done? A green bin program in Peterborough to collect kitchen scraps and other food waste could help, turning it into compost rather than seeing it landfilled.

However, the City of Peterborough has recently shelved plans to launch the green bin program. The culprit? Doug Ford’s government's cancellation of Ontario's cap-and-trade system, which was to have provided a $7.5 million grant to the City to help build a facility to process the kitchen waste.

“We've certainly not given up on this plan,” notes Virginia Swinson, the Waste Diversion Section Manager at the City of Peterborough. For now, “people can and should continue to reduce the food they waste, and they can compost in the backyard.”

D. Trevor Barton agrees. As the Executive Director of the Municipal Waste Association and another speaker at the Food: Too Good to Waste event, he notes: “You're not a hero if you fill a green bin, especially if you could've eaten the food in the first place.”

“Love your food” is the solution that Peterborough Public Health (PPH) advocates. To reduce food waste, PPH suggests we plan meals in advance; be mindful when shopping and buy only what will be eaten; love and use up leftovers; and store food properly so older items get eaten first before opening something new. The Food in Peterborough website (www.foodinpeterborough.ca) offers more tips to reduce food waste.

Barton hopes we act quickly. “What's the legacy we're leaving for 50 generations from now?” he wonders. “It’s certainly not Roman antiquities.”

Valid point... and valuable food for thought!

Bill Eekhof is a freelance writer, and recent convert to Transition Town Peterborough who sees the need to transition with the times in the midst of climate change.

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CULTURE

AGENCY AND COMMUNION PATRICIA REMY - In trying to make some sense of what I experience, there are two terms which have markedly helped me. They appear in the writings of Ken Wilber, an American biochemist turned philosopher, who enjoyed some renown among aging boomers like myself during the 1990's and early 2000's. Wilber speaks of agency and communion as characteristics of all living things.

Agency denotes an organism's will to survive, its innate drive toward self-preservation, its genetically programmed preparedness to put its own interests before those of any other being. It manifests as selfishness, as the drive toward success and status, as the need to win, even to subjugate and rule others. Agency empowers an organism to compete among its peers and among all other beings which impinge on its ecological niche.

Communion describes the opposite feature. It points to an organism's desire to cooperate, to form bonds with others of its kind and even with other species, its willingness to make way and step back for others, to endure a loss of status or reward for the common good of the set of beings with which it has bonded. Communion enables an organism (by conscious choice or instinct) to take what one could call the larger and longer view, to combine efforts, to form alliances, which although they demand some restrictions of purely selfish desires, increase the chances of survival of the larger community of which it is a member.

It is generally assumed that agency is the older and deeperseated drive. Life began in one-celled organisms, among which life was a ruggedly individual, eat-or-be-eaten matter.

Then came the “second genesis”, as some biologists tend to term it. During this period of evolution certain very similar cells learned to cooperate with one another, joined together, and evolved into multi-cellular organisms like ourselves. In time, cooperation between species emerged. Algae and fungi became the symbionts we know as lichens. Flowering

plants closed a deal with insects, a drop of nourishing nectar if you spread my pollen. The creatures inhabiting a coral reef build a complex community of interdependence.

In time, even “primitive single-celled” creatures honed their capacity for communion, becoming responsive to new niches. Think of the bacteria in a cow's stomachs, without which the bovine would not be able to digest the grass it eats. There are myriad other examples.

Now let's turn to humans. When agency and communion are out of balance, things go awry. You can see it at any playground. Kids with (for whatever reason) an overdeveloped sense of agency can become bullies. If their agency is moderated with communion, they can become the defenders of those who are harassed and natural leaders. A child with a predominance of communion (for whatever reason) will try to please others no matter what, and in the worst scenario can become a victim. Tempered with agency, this child will be empathetic to others and still stand her/his own ground, insist on behaviours which serve the common good. This example is radically simplified, but you get the idea.

And so it goes in expanding circles of human endeavour and experience. Stalin and Obiang Masogo (current ruler of Equatorial Guinea) are two of the worst examples of rampant agency. Ghandi, Nelson Mandela, and Mother Teresa represent individuals with a strong sense of communion.

Apropos: How would you rate the balance between agency and communion when we consider how humans relate to the Earth and all its other millions of species.

Sustainability demands a balance between agency and communion.

Patricia Remy is a member of the Greenzine Editorial Collective

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BOOK REVIEW:

NEW YORK 2140 PATRICIA REMY - The visionary science fiction writer, Kim Stanley Robinson, has been lauded for his Mars Trilogy: Red Mars, Blue Mars, Green Mars. Typical for that work and this new one, New York 2140, is the ability to combine societal analysis and technical foresight.

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The First and Second Pulse have taken place, the melting of Arctic and Antarctic ice, which has caused sea levels around the world to rise by 50 metres. Lower Manhattan is underwater, making New York a new Venice. Buildings at the north end of the island still stand on dry land. Between downtown and uptown lies the intertidal zone. New graphene materials allow the construction of skyscrapers 300 stories high.

Life goes on. Water rats, the marginalized of the city like Stephan and Roberto, live below the floating docks. Mr. Hexter scavenges treasure from the soggy ruins.

The finance sector is still very much about real estate. We learn about the IPPI, the Intertidal Property Pricing Index, from Franklin, a wily daytrader. Charlotte, a social worker, also manages a cooperative condominium on Madison Square. She and Gen, a police officer, know very well the seamy side of half-submerged life. Mutt and Jeff, computer wizards, have hacked the Chicago Mercantile Index, embedding an algorithm with 16 commands to reform the economic system. Joanna, a seemingly serious business woman, is the wild card.

Cultured meat, oyster beds, and roof gardens feed the populace. Helium balloons have replaced fuel guzzling airplanes.

There are villages in the sky, alleviating population congestion on the ground, held up by clusters of helium balloons.

Wild animals have been given places of refuge and habitat corridors.

Amanda Black, eco-activist with Oprah and Ellen allures, attempts to resettle polar bears at the South Pole, where there are still millions of tonnes of (melting) ice. But what about the penguins???

Meanwhile, the remaining planetary ice continues to melt. All await The Third Pulse…

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CULTURE

THE GLOBE AND MAIL AGREES WITH THE GZ: From a GZ editorial, second quarter 2018:

“As a species, humans have made all other [creatures], even the Earth itself, vulnerable to humanity, susceptible to onslaughts of all kinds from human beings… the exploitation of vulnerability…dominates our way of relating to the 'other', the 'not-me'.”

The exploitation of the other's vulnerability could be termed a suppression of empathy.

So The Globe and Mail, Sat. Aug. 25, 2018 /Opinion section:

“It is the best of times, it is the worst of times…Paradox: Things have never been so good for humanity, nor so dire for the planet. The same suppression of empathy that's allowed humans to destroy one another throughout history is what allows us to ravage our biosphere.”

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WELLNESS

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NIGHT-TIME SCREEN-TIME AND CANCER RISK DR. BRENDA TAPP ND - Among non-communicable diseases, cancer is the leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. It is estimated that in 10 years, the number of new cases diagnosed per year will approximately double. If there was a simple change you could make in your life that would reduce your risk of developing cancer would you do it?

Most of us are familiar with reducing our animal product intake, increasing our physical activity, taking our vitamin D, reducing exposure to chemicals in our homes, but what about reducing your screen time, particularly at night? Most of our digital devices emit what is called blue light. Blue light has a shorter wavelength than other colours in the visible spectrum, and is not restricted from entering the eye, like other wavelengths are, therefore is able to cause more damage.

Before the invention of the lightbulb, humans were exposed to insignificant amounts of light at night. As the sun sets a small gland in our brain starts to make hormone called melatonin, which helps us fall asleep and stay asleep, among other things. Today, we are exposed to artificial light nightly from street lights that shine into our bedroom window, cellphones, laptops, tablets, LED lights, fluorescent lights, you get the idea. There is no need to conduct our lives according to the sun and moon cycle anymore. This means our circadian rhythm gets disrupted, especially in those who work shiftwork. Exposure to artificial light at night increases your risk of cancer by suppressing melatonin production. Melatonin is an antioxidant that

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Another mechanism by which low levels of endogenous melatonin increases cancer risk is via reproductive hormones. Sufficient levels of circulating melatonin actually inhibit the synthesis of estrogen and interfere with estrogen binding at cellular estrogen receptors. This means that insufficient levels of melatonin result in greater risk of hormone responsive cancers like breast, prostate, uterine and ovarian.

Large scale studies have found 1.5-2.0 fold increased risk of cancer in countries with more artificial light pollution, even after statistics were adjusted for age, population size, air pollution, and electricity consumption. I certainly don't believe this is the only cause, but it is a contributing factor.

How do we fix this? Well, once the sun sets it's a good idea to start dimming the lights in your home. Beeswax(!) candles make a great natural light source. Use light bulbs with a wavelength emission peak of 470-480nm, instead of those with a peak below 450nm. Spend more time outside exposing your eyes to natural light. Reducing screen time after dinner, and completely shutting down electronics an hour or two before bed is also important. I'll be the first to admit that I regularly use my computer after dark, especially in the fall and winter, to do research, or write things like this article. Thankfully there are glasses you can wear to reduce your exposure to blue light. My favourite is Ladyboss Glasses (no, I do not work for the company). You can also turn on the night setting on your mobile device during the day.

While the use of indoor lighting and mobile devices has certainly allowed humans to accomplish much more in a day, it is also important for us to do nothing once in a while, to step back from the hustle of the day and relax.

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Brenda Tapp is the director of the Peterborough Centre of Naturopathic Medicine and an Oncology Association of Naturopathic Physician

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PEOPLE, GET READY CHERYL LYON - The words “a threat to the future of humanity” have come up before: World War Two, the infamous “weapons of mass destruction.” We got through those things. Ho-hum. Life goes on.

And can I pay the rent this month?

But no other threat to humanity has ever been like the one now.

Ever. This time it's different. It's growing, it's everywhere and we only are beginning to understand where it will strike. Up to now, the Peterborough area remains mostly unaffected, in a bubble.

To understand and adapt, we must get in touch with our connectedness to Nature's systems. For instance, the oscillation of the jet stream directly affects human demand for electricity, food crop yields, and fishing. Earth's rapid warming changed this oscillation so much that in one season the climate patterns of the entire northern hemisphere that have prevailed for millennia can dramatically change, disrupting all natural and human systems, including here in Peterborough.

Are we preparing for such systemic disruptions or failures?

Persistent lack of rain can dry up local rivers that supply local drinking water, family recreation and firefighters' hoses. It's not that more fires get started; it's that forests are not used to the new extreme temperatures and droughts. They explode quickly into firestorms with heat so intense it sterilizes root systems.

Underground, it continues smoldering through the winter, reemerging in late spring after the forest floor is sapped of moisture by extreme heat.

Will we see here the social disruption such as multi-generational family farmers giving up because of successive seasons of failed crops that leaves them drowning in debt?

Then there are the birds we so enjoy, starving during migration because climate change caused the insects they need for food on their migratory journeys to emerge, peak and decline before the birds arrive.

Or consider the electricity in our homes in hot weather when nuclear power plants (supplying much of Ontario's electricity) have to reduce power production because their cooling water is too warm to maintain operations when power demand peaks on hot days.

Do you enjoy fishing? Fish populations crash because their rivers are too low or too warm for their survival.

These are all examples of how both natural and human systems are intertwined and have evolved to thrive in the stable climate that has been ours since the last Ice Age. It is now dangerously disrupted and deteriorating.

We suggest that local media must not only report on the big events like wildfires in BC but also make the connection between climate change and these events. Report, too, on the adaptations in thinking and living necessary here in Peterborough City and County.

Municipal governments must do this too.

Groups like Transition Town, the Climate Change Coalition, Sustainable Peterborough and Green Up are among many in local communities trying to advance the “change between our ears” and in our heart that we must make to understand and adapt to the stark realities described above. The Greenzine is all about this.

INNER TRANSITION

Equi knocks at my soul's door North winds blow summer's dust into eyes that itch with a question and a quest “What wind will lift me to an eagle-eyed vision”.

Up from where we march in the busy ant-work of getting things done.

All the tiny details of time's long term busyness worked out in the short term stress of “there's never-enough” today's to-do lists made longer by yesterday's distracting twists of fate.

And for all the checks counted on that list tomorrow just never will come.

Up from where we feel in our guts the wolves prowling ever-hungry for the next drama.

Am I in the pack? Or am I prey?

-to kill or starve - give or take a few more no bystanders in the emotional churn of all my relations.

Up from where the pre-frontal primate's lobes juggle two-handed facts with instincts play, - pleasured now? or dopamine delayed?

Deciding to gamble with guts impulse, or reasoned seasoned thoughts, or just keep juggling over that next ridge to see what curiosity comes.

Wings take us to a higher place Oh let us soar -for just a while awayHigh, Higher, High-above where all four ancient whispers carry us on their wisdom songs what our parched souls long to hear.

Where work and worry and wondering are all so far below.

Up and up until the moment when we believe that all is lost… we're eternally found to be.

Heaven arrives and then must leave freed with each and every breath released - grounded when – with eagle-eyed sight - we dive to feed in the necessities of our animal now.

September 22nd, 2018 Allan David Smith-Reeve

Cheryl Lyon is a member of the Greenzine Editorial Collective and Chair of the Board of Transition Town Peterborough LIVING LOCALLY

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COMMUNITY GREENZINE

NO TIME ANDREA CONNELL - We have no time. I hear it all the time. Things are moving faster. I used to have more time. I don't have time to do all the things I want to do. Recently I noticed my own significant lack of time. My stress was rising. I was getting antsy and edgy. I was getting business things done but that meant sacrifices on more personal things. It's harvest season and my garden calls for my attention and I told it, “Soon…I don't have time right now”.

It's harvest season and my canning pot is still dusty from sitting on the shelf since last year and I say out loud “I'm coming…I don't have time right now.”

When I finally got to it, I was racing time. In the quiet and centered zen place I get to while chopping and preserving food, it hit me loud and clear. I was officially out of step with nature. I was off my natural time. I had allowed the 'unnatural' world to pull me out of my centre into the world of consumer time. 'Buy and do anything you want anytime you want' time. This very simply is not nature's way.

Nature demands us to be in time with her. To be focused and present with her. To do otherwise is just plain foolish and dangerous. Ask any farmer. When it's harvest time, it's harvest time. Likewise in the spring, when it's planting time it's planting time. No point arguing. It can't be put off; it can't wait. When fruit is ripe, it's ripe. Tomorrow is over ripe.

'Soon' equates to rotten fruit. Then I'm left having to buy fruit, veggies and sauces in the grocery store where nature doesn't count. When I buy food in grocery stores, I buy like everyone else does: What's good? What's on sale? How fresh is it? Does it really need to be? Often I'm on auto pilot.

I can buy anything anytime. At my local farmer's market however I can only buy seasonally. There is something right and wholesome about that. I'm in right time. Time expands.

People ask me why I care so much about that. I understand that in today's world we can buy almost anything we want

any time we want. Quality food, year round, without going to the trouble and mess of gardening, harvesting and preserving. But for me it's more than the trouble or the cost.

It's very literally about responding to nature and being a part of the yearly cycles. I get pleasure and deep satisfaction from knowing that I am working in natural time. I also get peace of mind and heart. I believe we all do. To know that I'm buying local means that I am connecting locally to the people and the land and the natural cycles around me. My inner clock, timing and rhythm, gets re-set.

I like to know that I'm supporting local farmers for everything I don't grow myself and to process and prepare food that supports my family throughout the winter into the next ripening season brings me into a resilient awareness. When I get to respond in a resilient way I can rest easy. When my personal rhythm is reset, I find I have enough time again to do the other things that are important to me. Being resilient is a key priority of mine. Resilience can only be realized when we step into right time with nature.

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ECOLOGY

Connecting Landscapes Makes Climate Change Sense A Trent Student Reports LINDSEY BARGELT – Until I interned with the Kawartha Land Trust in Peterborough, I never realized the untapped potential for local organizations to contribute to large-scale landscape connectivity. Landscape ecologists define landscape “connectivity” generally as suitable habitat patches close enough for animals to travel from one to another either through a natural corridor or across unsuitable habitat. This is challenging because habitat loss and modification increases as human development expands. This is especially troubling for Southern Ontario, one of Canada's biodiversity hot spots. Climate change is expected to shift many southern species northward, and when impeded by the Great Lakes, funnel them through Southern Ontario, only to be faced with the humandominated landscape of the GTA. Scientific literature often notes that local conservation is necessary for “on the ground” change, but it has never been quantified, and there is no model for including land trusts and other non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in landscape level planning.

My Masters research analyzes how private organizations fit into bigger picture conservation planning, because protecting the landscape is a top priority given climate change effects on biodiversity as a result of temperature

Peterborough Paddling Club enjoys Big Boyd/Chiminis Island, largest undeveloped island protected by KLT

knowledge of Fleming and Trent students and academics, local environmental consultants, retired MNR professionals, KLT developed a strategy of identifying natural spaces and corridors for protection. KLT produced the “Kawarthas, Naturally Connected” (http://www.kawarthasnaturally.ca/), which identifies 28% of the landscape to be protected, in order to create a strong natural heritage system. KLT exemplifies the practices that my research aims to promote: small-scale local resources making a big and lasting impact when planned and executed well and with community support.

Lindsey Bargelt is second-year Masters student at Trent University in Environmental and Life Sciences aspiring to be a conservation biologist.

At the 2010 Convention on Biological Diversity, Canada agreed to protect 17% of its terrestrial areas by 2020, which many scientists think is much less than what we should be aiming for.

Canada boasts 25% of the planet's wetlands and 9% of its forests. and precipitation changes, which will shift seasons, frequency and intensity of extreme weather events, including fires. These changes in turn will alter animal migration and breeding times and the distribution, productivity and abundance of species. In addition to new challenges, climate change exacerbates many significant existing threats to biodiversity, such as invasive species and habitat change.

Protected areas, like national and provincial parks and wildlife reserves, are important in saving biodiversity and they tend to be more resilient. Regardless, environmental changes are still likely to force many species to shift beyond the boundaries of existing protected area, threatening their effectiveness at protecting their current species composition and bringing in new species. Therefore, landscapes must be well connected to facilitate these shifts.

The Kawartha Land Trust (KLT), one of 31 members of the Ontario Land Trust Alliance, has come a long way since its beginning in 2001. KLT recognizes bigger picture issues than just cottage development, like the challenge of connecting the Kawarthas. Drawing on the community LIVING LOCALLY

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CLIMATE CHANGE

COMMUNITY GREENZINE

LOCAL ACTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE KAITLYN ITTERMAN, MELANIE KAWALEC - All three levels of government take on accountability for climate change and mitigate its impact. Unfortunately, our lack of action through policies, programs, and actions to address climate change will only drive up the associated costs.

Compared to the investment we could have made early on, we will have to pay an ever increasing price in economic damages that are far in excess of the costs associated with simply reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

In 2016-2017, each municipality and First Nation in the Greater Peterborough Area set local greenhouse gas emissions reduction targets and adopted a local Climate Change Action Plan, ranging from 15% to 40% reductions by 2031. Through Sustainable Peterborough, we have hired a Climate Change Coordinator to track our actions and progress. Between 2012 and 2016, the accounting done related solely to best practices and cost savings as the driver of change. In 2017-2018, additional actions have been taken, related predominantly to energy conservation, cost savings, and greening technology.

The phasing out of coal from electricity production has been the single largest impact to date, reducing municipal GHGs by almost 13%. This measure, enacted by the previous provincial government, also resulted in improvements in local air quality. The Ontario Climate Change Action Plan together with the Provincial Cap and Trade program were well on their way to stimulating a green economy, low carbon energy technologies, and energy efficiency by 2030.

If carbon pricing is no longer in the equation, then other economic incentives will be needed to encourage investment in Ontario’s infrastructure for energy transformation. These will enable citizens to participate in building a green economy, rather than remaining just consumers of other countries’ low carbon economy.

In 2017 Selwyn Township installed Real Ice, a cold water ice making technology, at the Ennismore Arena. Recently, its second installation of Real Ice was completed at the Lakefield Arena. This upgrade will save approximately 45,000 kWh annually and will reduce natural gas consumption. The estimated operational savings will amount to $13,000 annually. Once the $11,320 incentives from Peterborough Utilities’ Save on Energy program and Enbridge Gas’ incentives are applied to the capital expenditure, this means a two year return on investment The new LEED ( Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) equivalent Emergency Services Building at Hiawatha First Nation displays similar commitment: a high efficiency envelope, radiant heating, and other environmentally friendly aspects that demonstrate innovative and forward thinking.

You, too, can help us quantify local climate change actions.

Simply send Kaitlyn an email at kittermann@ptbocounty.ca describing your activities. She will log your progress. The more actions we can track, the more progress we can make.

Kaitlyn Ittermann is the Sustainable Peterborough Climate Change Coordinator and Melanie Kawalec is the City of Peterborough’s Sustainability Manager. Both are working towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions in the Peterborough area. For more information, please visit: www.sustainablepeterborough.ca

So, what are we doing locally to mitigate climate change?

By 2017, Curve Lake First Nation and most of the townships have already converted their streetlights from traditional high pressure sodium to LED. The City of Peterborough is just now converting their 7,205 cobra head streetlights to smart technology LED fixtures. LED streetlight fixtures are energy efficient, virtually maintenance-free, environmentally friendly, and last up to four times longer than traditional high pressure sodium streetlights. This change alone will reduce annual electricity costs by 54% ($650,000), lessen maintenance costs by 80% ($187,000), and decrease the City’s annual electricity consumption for streetlights by 70% or by 3.6 million kilowatt hours.

Both Curve Lake First Nation and Hiawatha First Nation are participating in the Community Energy Plan (CEP) program that tracks energy consumption across the entire community. The Plan identifies renewable energy opportunities, funding available for retrofits, and promotes a greater interest, awareness and understanding about energy planning. This action demonstrates their commitment to enhance their community’s energy security, while planning for future energy management.

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CLIMATE CHANGE

QUESTIONS FOR MUNICIPAL COUNCILS ON PLANNING FOR CLIMATE CHANGE? CHERYL LYON - Our globalized economy is too bloated to be sustainable. One way or another, the economy must not continue to endlessly grow - or at least grow only in renewable ways - until it subsists on what Earth can provide long-term. Municipalities will be directly affected, and so need to intentionally and adaptively manage the process of transitioning through big economic change. This requires thoughtful leadership, deliberate aims, and funding new ideas to build a resilient Peterborough area.

Canada's fossil fuel industry is suffering. These fuels are becoming more and more expensive to extract with less return on investment. Effects of electrification and automation roll right down the local level. Think GM closure in Oshawa. Add in the cost of severe weather recovery and all levels of municipal government budgets will take a crippling hit.

When will Municipal elected Councils (Townships, County and City) ask hard questions like: · Do their Emergency Plans take account of responses to international energy, economic, and ecological system disasters that will cascade to local levels? · How will municipalities participate in the social learning and civic engagement needed to bring communities together for the challenges ahead and avoid social instability? · How will municipalities support local farmers (including urban ones) to continue to be able to grow our food? Will city and country plan jointly to secure life-essential food growing and distribution? · Does Municipal economic development anticipate a rise in grain prices or a drought reducing grain imports to threaten the viability of a major local employer? Or a plan to increase use of locally-produced grain and other foods? · Will City and County give Peterborough Kawartha Economic Development a stronger mandate to support local businesses, not just attract any businesses? · Will Councils support an approach to economic development that includes local wealth generation, keeping local wealth from leaking away, and less dependence on external inputs for jobs and regional agriculture? · In spite of international free trade agreement procurement restrictions, are municipalities prepared to risk adopting local procurement policies to support local business sustainability?

Our Predicaments Climate Change

Adaptive Responses reduce CO2 emmissions

Resource Depletion (Oil & Water )

reduce energy demand

Economic Contraction

localize as much of economy as possible in life essentials (food, water, energy, health, culture)

Economic Localization is the strategic, adaptive model that addresses all three predicaments and builds community resilience on the road to ongoing sustainability.

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TRANSITION

Connect, Thrive, Save Let's get started…it's easy together!

What is it? TNP is a tried and tested, awardwinning, energy -descent project that has been successfully implemented in many communities around the world to cut energy use and strengthen neighbourhood connectedness. It has been successfully adapted and implemented all over the world.

This unique and easy program: • creates neighbour relationships • builds networks of working groups throughout the city • empowers people to create long-term environmental and social change helps residents realize significant savings in their household bills.

Who is Transition Town Peterborough?

TTP, founded in 2007, based on permaculture values and design principles, was created to face the 3 interdependent predicaments of Climate Change, the Global Energy Crisis and Economic Uncertainty at the same time.

TTP's focus is on the economic localization of 5 life essentials to build both personal and community resilience in the face of the 3 predicaments.

Energy. Water. Food. Wellness. Culture.

The 7 Session Program: ·Session 1: Getting Started ·Session 2: Energy ·Session 3: Water ·Session 4: Food ·Session 5: Waste ·Session 6: Transportation ·Session 7: What's Next Each neighborhood group receives a TNP mentor and a workbook guide to go through to discover loads of local valuable tips, resources, ideas and support to make long lasting changes.

The group decides how often to meet and what they'll do!

Program will be ready for households in 2019 but there is lots to do before then…

Get Involved Today!

We need volunteers, group mentors, canvassers, coffee servers etc. In short, if you are interested in developing new projects, like people and care about your neighborhood community The Transition Neighbourhoods Project needs you!

Contact Andrea at connellandrea@gmail.com to stay updated on hearing more as it happens.

Ask how to bring TNP to your Neighborhood!

NEIGHBOURHOODS PROJECT

connect ·with your neighbours ·with current, local info & resources ·with earth, environment and community

save ·money ·energy ·carbon emissions

thrive ·financially ·in a healthier, cleaner environment ·building resilient local communities

FOR MORE INFORMATION VISIT

www.transitiontownpeterborough.ca

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Just Doing Stuff!

Rob Hopkins, the founder of the Transition Movement, wrote a book called “The Power of Just Doing Stuff” it promotes the idea that doing anything, whatever can be done, is a good start.

The Transition Neighbourhoods Project is an energy descent program that offers participants information, resources and a plan to learn ways to work on their current consumption of energy helping them lower their carbon emission per household and save money at the same time.

We decided to go to the streets, to our neighbours, our friends and our community advisors to see what kind of things they are already doing to cut down on Greenhouse Gas Emissions. We were flooded with feedback. Here are some of their inspiring ideas.

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I take small cloth bags to the grocery store - along with my large reusable shopping bags - to put produce in. I also take my reusable shopping bags into other store s - like gift stores, drug stores etc. Any opportunity to refus e plastic! Peter Briden

thing I did was to have my The biggest and most recent ng. Even though I am still garage wired for car chargi ing nkers to die, having the wir waiting for my old gas clu s. ces ing and shopping pro ready has started the sav David Green

I reduced my food waste by getting a backyard composter to dispose of vegetable/fruit scraps, etc. It's a great way to reduce our garbage footprint, whi le also putting the nished compost back to work in my gardens or lawn.

Bill Eekhoff

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Maybe I can drive com pletely on solar. Maybe more.

Guy Hanchet

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The electric element, puts the heat, exactly where it is needed , with little energy escaping.

Dave Sumner

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Fishless Fridays – I'm not a meat-eater!

JO Hayward Haines

Just Doing Stuff!

If you’ve been inspired and have some of your own to add please send your actions to info@thegreenzineonline.com

In a time of dominance by global industrial food systems, we want to rebalance the equation by creating resilient local economies fueled by local growers, farmers, and Party of Ontario producers.

Supporting Local Food and Small-Scale Producers

Help Us make A Difference.

Get Involved! Contact Peterborough Greens

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Reducing our Personal Greenhouse Gases Climate Change: Burning fossil fuels, mostly natural gas, gasoline, and diesel, produces CO2 (carbon dioxide) pollution, a “greenhouse gas” (GHG) that traps solar energy near the earth, much as an agri- cultural greenhouse does. This warms the planet, producing serious climate change that is destroying wildlife habitat, and causing fierce forest fires and costly extreme weather events such as floods, storms, droughts and hurricanes.

Peterborough city has committed, through its Climate Change Action Plan (CCAP), to reduce its GHGs by 30% from the 2011 baseline by 2031. That means we must reduce our GHGs by about 2.3% every year for the next 13 years. This is a big challenge that requires a concerted effort from all of us. The CCAP states that the city's GHGs are 39% residential (mostly from heating), 30% transportation, 20% commercial and 11% industrial. As individuals, our primary influence is over the almost 70% of GHGs that come from just residential heating and transportation, mostly automotive. The rural numbers can be found at SustainablePeterborough.ca for the County, each of the townships, and Curve Lake and Hiawatha First Nations.

REQUIRED DEFINITIONS: Power and Energy Power = energy per second: A “watt” (W) is a measure of the power used by an appliance.

Examples: a house LED (Light-Emitting Diode) light uses only about 6 W of power (usually stamped on the base of the bulb) whereas an electric heater typically uses about 1000 W, or 1 “kilowatt” (kW), usually written on the back of the heater.

Energy = power x time: What really matters is how much “energy” is used over an extended time, because energy is what you pay for. To calculate energy, multiply the power by the number of hours (h) that the appliance is on.

Examples: in one hour an LED house light uses about 6 watts x 1 h = 6 watt-hours (Wh) of energy. An electric heater uses about 1000 Wh (or 1 kWh, kilowatt-hour) in one hour.

One kWh is roughly enough energy to heat your living room for one hour in the winter. One kWh of electricity costs about 10 cents, although this varies with the time of day.

Examples: one electrical heater running 24 hours per day, will cost about 24 x 10 cents or $2.40 per day, or $72 per month. However, a high-power device such as an electric kettle (also about 1 kW) does not use much energy if it is run only a few minutes per day.

HEATING OR COOLING DEVICES USE THE MOST ENERGY. A hair dryer uses about 1.5 kW on “hot” but almost no power when on “cold”, but it is on for such a short time that it is not a big energy consumer either way. In contrast, a window air conditioner also uses about 1.5 kW but can run many hours a day in summer and so use lots of energy. (Air conditioners are often measured in BTU per hour, where 5000 BTU per hour = 1.5 kW). Turn off or turn down appliances that produce heat or cold, when possible.

HOW TO MEASURE GHG POLLUTION GHG mass is normally measured as “CO2-equivalent” in grams (g), kilograms (1 kg = 1000 g) or tonnes (1 tonne = 1000 kg). Examples: - Peterborough city emits 350,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.

- 1 kWh of electricity in Ontario generates only 31 grams of CO2-equivalent, or 0.031 kg, and is among the cleanest electrical systems in the world.

HOW DOES YOUR USAGE MEASURE UP? House lighting: There can be an enormous difference in the energy efficiency of apparently similar devices. An LED bulb uses about 10 times less electricity and lasts 40 times longer than an outdated “incandescent” light bulbs that produces the same amount of light, so LEDs are much cleaner and cheaper over the lifetime of the bulb. Buy LED bulbs rather than Compact Fluorescents (CFL): LEDs are 2 times more efficient, and CFLs contain mercury and so require special recycling. Go to “saveonenergy.ca” for financial incentives for saving energy.

House heating: The amount of GHGs generated by your house heating depends on how well insulated your house is, and on your heat source. For 1 kWh of heat, the mass of GHGs generated equals 0.031 kg for electrical heating in Ontario at present, and this will fall as more renewable energy is used.

For the same heat, 0.250 kg of GHGs are produced from heating oil, 0.215 kg from propane; 0.181 kg from natural gas (methane); and about 0.01 kg for geothermal from the electricity to run the heat pump. Modern gas furnaces can be up to 95% efficient in converting gas energy to heat. Replacing an 80% efficiency oil furnace with a 95% efficiency gas furnace will reduce GHG production by 35% and decrease the heating bill to continued over...

TRANSITION NEIGHBOURHOODS PROJECT about one-third. Win-win! Moreover, the loss of heat from your house depends on your inside-temperature minus the outside-temperature. If it is 20oC inside and 0oC outside, turning the thermostat down by 1oC saves 1/20 = 5% of your heating cost for those conditions, which is a lot.

Ontario has just introduced an incentive up to $7200 for insulating and draft-proofing your house, following a preand post-inspection (see GreenON.ca and go to My Home). If your house is poorly insulated, your payback for the rest of the insulating cost could be as little as 2 or 3 years.

Refrigerators: Buy “Energy Star” appliances only. Check the label inside for efficiency (see the sample Energuide label). The energy to run this fridge per year is about 554 kWh, costing 554 x $0.10 = $55. When you switch to an Energy Star certified refrigerator from a model over 15 years old, you save more than $140 per year and 806 kg of GHG emissions annually. By properly recycling your old refrigerator you can save more than 5 tonnes of GHG emissions, as the coolant gas is much worse than carbon dioxide. For financial incentives electricity use in Peterborough, go to PDIconserves.ca. For low-income earners, financial assistance is available for home insulating and for buying efficient appliances, at SaveOnEnergy.ca; look under Home Assistance Program.

Other appliances: The typical annual energy use of standard appliances is shown at the left, but Energy Star clothes washers are at least 68 percent more energy efficient than those produced in 1990. Washing clothes in cold water uses 10 times less energy as a warm wash, and most clothes wash fine in cold water. Drying clothes on a line saves great amounts of energy.

Computers: A desktop computer uses about 100 W plus 30 W for an LCD monitor; a laptop uses about 40 W. Tablets use much less. These are small compared to heating but add up unless you set your computer to auto-sleep after 10 minutes or so of inactivity. If you have Wi-Fi in your house, the router uses about 6 W of energy, which also adds up.

Moreover, appliances such as TVs and radios often remain in a low-power “standby” mode even when turned off at the switch. The total standby power can be as large as 10% (a lot!) of the electrical energy used by a typical household, so it is best to unplug these appliances at the wall. When several are grouped together as in a home entertainment system, plug them all into the same power bar and turn it off when none are in use.

Transportation: Your choice of transportation matters! A gasoline car produces about 0.255 kg of GHGs per km travelled. That is 1 kg of GHG every 4 km! Buses and trains generate much less GHG per person, because the vehicle is shared among many people. About 90% of car driving in Canada is in cities, at less than 100 km per day. Consider getting an all-electric plug-in car and renting a gas car when needed for longer trips. Electric cars cost only about $2 per day for electricity and their maintenance costs are less because they have far fewer moving parts, and regenerative braking (which helps recharge the battery) reduces wear on the brakes. Government incentives have made lower-cost electric cars about the same price as gasoline cars.

Air travel: produces high GHG emissions. One return transatlantic flight generates your entire year's per-person allotment of GHGs. If you must fly, buy carbon offsets from the airline or elsewhere, which add only about 5% to the cost of a flight. Carbon offsets pay for programs that remove an amount of carbon from the atmosphere equivalent to what your flight produced. See davidsuzuki.org for good carbon-offset sites.

Livestock: cause 14% of global GHGs, of which cattle contribute about 65%. The digestive system of cows (and sheep, goats) emits methane by burping. The average human beef-eater is responsible for 0.35 tonnes of GHGs (as CO2 equivalent) a year.

Producing just 1 pound of beef for eating generates about 27 pounds of GHGs, and lamb and goat about 35 pounds. Research shows that the addition of less than 2 percent dried seaweed to a cow's diet can reduce methane emissions by 99 percent, but these additives are not yet widely available. In comparison, pork produces about 8 pounds of GHGs per pound of meat, chicken and eggs about 5 pounds, and lentils (a high-protein food) less than 1 pound.

Clearly, by acting appropriately, we can dramatically reduce our GHGs and help preserve the environment for our children and grandchildren. ''We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children."

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COMMUNITY GREENZINE

Climate Tipping Points:

How close are we to losing total control?

AL SLAVIN - If you push a bottle over just a bit and release it, it wobbles but stays standing up. However, if you push it too far, past its “tipping point”, it falls over and can't stand itself back up. Moreover, it can be very difficult to know the point at which we have pushed too far. The climate works the same way: if it passes certain tipping points it may be thousands of years before the climate returns to what we think of as normal. One of many examples of a tipping point is the melting of Arctic ice. When ice covered all the Arctic for most of the year, the ice reflected the sun's rays back into space and the Arctic stayed cold. As the ice melts with global warming, the dark water absorbs the sun's energy and warms up, melting more ice, which warms the Arctic more. We may already be past the tipping point leading to an open Arctic ocean all winter. A similar “feedback” mechanism exists with the release of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas, from Arctic permafrost. The more the permafrost melts, the more methane is released, the warmer the Artic becomes and the more the permafrost melts. At some point these feedbacks become so strong that they move beyond human control. A final tipping point may eventually be exceeded, although we don't know exactly when; the bottle falls over.

A recent scientific publication in the reputable Proceedings of the American National Academy of Sciences has examined a range of such interlinked climate tipping points. Co-author Johan Rockström, incoming co-director of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, warns "These tipping elements can potentially act like a row of dominoes. Once one is pushed over, it pushes Earth towards another. It may be very difficult or impossible to stop the whole row of dominoes from tumbling over. Places on Earth will become uninhabitable if 'Hothouse Earth' becomes the reality”. The article states that “social and technological trends and decisions occurring over the next decade or two could significantly influence the trajectory of the Earth System for tens to hundreds of thousands of years and potentially lead to conditions that resemble planetary states that were last seen several millions of years ago, conditions that would be inhospitable to current human societies and to many other contemporary species.”

Ten to twenty years is an incredibly short time to make the required changes. We can no longer gamble with human civilization. On September 8, millions throughout the world participated in the Rise for Climate mobilization to pressure governments to act before it is too late.

Alan Slavin is a Physic Professor Emeritus from Trent University who follows the research on climate science closely.

Think of the world's greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in terms of a leaky roof, with each country responsible for fixing its portion.

Canada, with only 1/200th of the world's population, has to fix only that little patch of roof. However, the average Canadian emits about 20 tonnes of GHGs per year, compared to 9.2 tonnes per person in Norway (another northern country), 6.9 tonnes in Europe on average, 7.7 tonnes in China, and 1.9 tonnes in India. That means Canada's share of the roof is leaking twice as fast as Norway's and 10 times faster than India's!

We are all under the same roof, and we all have to do our part.

A. Slavin

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The Gross Domestic Burn (GDB) Nate Hagens explains why the GDP (Gross Domestic Product) should properly be termed the GDB (Gross Domestic Burning). Growth (i.e. increases in the GDP) is exactly paralleled by the use of more energy, mainly the burning of fossil fuels, which generate greenhouse gas emissions and contribute mightily to global warming. For background on this and the graphs which support Nate's analysis, see the link below.

Approaching climate change from the energy perspective, Nate joins Tim Jackson and others in arguing for prosperity without growth. His conclusions: · We will have to get along with less energy · the energy we generate will have to be clean. [Now: Explain how this is supposed to happen, if the world population keeps growing exponentially. (GEC)] www.postcarbon.org/energy-money-and-technology-from-the-lens-of-the-superorganism/

SOURCE (DEPLETING)

THE BURN

The Enlightenment Fallacy?????

One of the basic assumptions of the 18th century Enlightenment was, that given an education based on observation and reason, humanity would make wiser decisions and move into a more prosperous, peaceful future. Was this tenet a fallacy? It is the more “enlightened” nations of the world which gobble energy and spread pollution.

THE SINK (OVER-FLOWING)

STILL TIME TO MAKE A CHOICE? WHAT’S IN MY WALLET?

“At this point, our society can still choose to invest in a future that builds genuine welfare rather than shoring up collapsing infrastructure. In an urgent but still hopeful report, 2020: The Climate Turning Point, members of the highlyrespected Potsdam Institute show there is still time to turn things around. Just. And the profound irony is that we can do this by investing in the very things that create welfare for society [like income equality, environmental conservation, and liveable cities, volunteer work and household work.]

“This moment of history,” they declare, “is not a burden; it is a tremendous opportunity.” They estimate that worldwide investment in a sustainable future—one with cleaner air and water, fulfilling livelihoods, more livable cities, and regenerating ecosystems—could make the world $19 trillion wealthier by 2050.” - Jeremy Lent, The Cruel, Topsy-Turvy Economics of Collapse.

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White Gold Missing from

Europe's Water Palace Switzerland has long prided itself on being Europe's water reservoir. Mighty alpine glaciers fed the Rhine and Rhône, providing Germany, France, Italy, and Switzerland itself with a seemingly endless supply of water. But global warming has melted the massive mountains of ice.

After two decades of sporadic and unusual floods, the ice fields have shrunk. Glaciers which once filled entire valleys have retreated ever higher into the mountains.

The Swiss voted years ago to limit the number of nuclear reactors in the country, realizing that one bad accident could contaminate the entire land. Instead, the energy economy placed its bet on power dams in the alpine valleys. More The Rhone Glacier and more water was Above: September 1018 Below: July 2008 stored behind the newsletter@infosperber.ch week 40/2018 dams, then channeled along straightened rivers flowing in concrete ducts to where the machinery of the human economy guzzled it in increasing amounts.

Now things have come to a crunch. Too little water is left to fill the rivers which once meandered across the meadows to nourish the flora and fauna of the countryside below the dams. The long, hot, dry summer of 2018 (yes, Europe experienced record temperatures, too) has taken its toll. Green meadows have turned brown. The fauna of the fields is thirsting.

There is now competition between the demands of the economy and the requirements of the fields and forests as to how the water of Switzerland should be distributed. And this even before the water flows downstream to the other countries which depend on it.

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PERMACULTURE

Permaculture in Transition the power and the ownership to determine the process of their community in much the same way a permaculture garden will determine by its own accord what will grow and what won't. All input is valuable and considered important to the whole picture.

ANDREA CONNELL- In Permaculture we look to nature to guide our planning and actions. We strive constantly to learn and adapt and to imagine new ways of problem solving. By looking to the garden and to nature we witness patterns and intrinsic behaviours that can serve as models for various coping strategies in these times of climate change, the energy crisis and economic uncertainty.

Permaculture teaches us to respect limits; CO2 emissions, growing food capacity, land use capacity, and waste for a few examples. We soon learn that everything has a limit and so we strive to be more respectful and careful. The permaculture garden is inclusive, everything has a place and a purpose. When we reflect this back into our society we can see that in order to survive we must also practice inclusivity, accessibility, and work toward mutual benefit.

This, in turn, eventually creates a natural balance. When we become aware of the natural flow of life we get to experience a time for rest, for work and of course a time for celebration.

Permaculture also teaches us about real time, staying present to the true processes and how to respond to feedback quickly and efficiently. It demands that we seek out effective strategies and stay open to change.

In permaculture we become acutely aware of synergies and natural collaboration. When we translate this into our community we begin to cultivate partnerships and relationships that unleash a collective genius creating important heartfelt discussions while stimulating new growth and development toward achieving common goals and outcomes. As our networks develop and strengthen we find the work load lessens and the stress lightens.

Ultimately, when left alone, Nature creates toward positive outcomes. Forest fires give way to new growth, rivers reroute to best serve the land and all its dependent life forms.

When we learn to focus on the positive, vision with hope, and create positive ways to engage with others, we can begin to imagine a world full of potential previously unseen.

Positive visioning allows new stories, new dreams and new possibilities to chart a new path forward.

Andrea Connell is a certified Permaculturist and TTP volunteer director of permaculture operations.

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Go Electric Go Local The 21st century model for the eďŹƒcient use of renewable electrical energy is the key to building more prosperous and resilient communities. This requires generating electric power locally, close to its place of use. It must be temporarily storable to mitigate the dierence between low and peak demand.

The new model for solar driven cogeneration plants for large building complexes in cities relies on the internet. It can connect electric cars with the electric public transit systems. Storage of excess energy when demand is low and its release back into the system the system when demand is high can be coordinated. The same principle applies at the household level. Solar panels on individual homes would store excess energy in one's own or the neighbours' electric cars during the day and feed that energy back into homes when the demand is higher. Or you might drive your electric car to an entertainment complex and sell some of your stored energy to the complex, carefully metered to allow you enough energy for your return trip home.

The technology is all available now and is in early application in parts of Europe.

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FRED IRWIN - Globalization is a result of cheap energy and corporate capitalism chasing the lowest cost of labour wherever it is, anywhere on the globe. The bulk of the reward (profit) goes to the already rich. The already rich are invested in the Global FIRE sector, which drives the entire global economy. The FIRE acronym stands for Finance, including the privatized banking system that creates all our money, allowing the monetization of just about everything on earth, together with Insurance and Real Estate.

FUTURE

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Global FIRE ...Local GEM: Creating a Local Economy

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What we aren't yet prepared to face, is that globalization of our economics has also globalized much of our social capital. Social localism and sense of place and identity have dissipated. That confronts us with the struggle we face as a community in the face of the climate crisis.

Is the economy the driver of change? There is no such thing as a free competitive market. There are a bunch of rules and policies made with governments. The FIRE lobby, supported by trade deals has locked in the questionable advantage that globalization has over local economies.

That's where our money is, including the money of the well off folks who live in Peterborough. Very little of the capital accumulation of Peterborough residents remains here to recirculate in the local economy, where it could create new wealth and new local sustainable jobs. We need to tap into that local wealth to give the needed boost for localizing much more of our economy. The trick is to design attractive investment infrastructure to support economic localization.

Putting it rather bluntly, there are a fair number of well off people living in the GPA . However, many of them are not invested here; their capital is invested in the global economy. .

In Peterborough the FIRE economy is very small, certainly compared to Toronto, the so called financial capital of Canada. The Real Estate portion of the FIRE economy is far larger in importance in Toronto as compared to Peterborough. Torontonians are far more interested in the bursting of the Real Estate Bubble than they are the Carbon Bubble.

The largest employment sector and likely the largest economic driver in Peterborough is the GEM Sector (which stands for Government, Education, and Medical). Without this sector, Peterborough would be well on its way to becoming a hollowed out bedroom community and a place to retire to, after years of hard work in the big city.

The opportunity for Peterborough comes down to this: How do we keep more of the money generated here recirculating through investment and spending in our community, where it would contribute to the security, happiness and well being of local citizens? In financial language, how do we build the infrastructure for economic localization, which could potentially localize half our economy? We can begin with life essentials: food, water, energy, wellness, and culture, indeed the goals of Transition Town Peterborough.

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WHY WALKABLE STREETS ARE MORE ECONOMICALLY PRODUCTIVE What is the value of a street where people can walk safely?

Why build streets that are constructed with the needs of people in mind, not just the needs of cars?

It’s an argument based on pure dollars and cents — one that should convince people with a myriad of values and political leanings that people-oriented places must be a priority if we want our communities to be economically prosperous. We find that they are more economically productive than any other style of development.

CARBON CAPTURE AND USE A Canadian company - Carbon Engineering claims to have developed a technology for capturing CO2 from the atmosphere, purifying it and converting it into low-carbon fuel in a costeffective way. The carbon is then combined with hydrogen and oxygen to create fuel. That fuel would be used by heavy transport like ships or planes. The concern is that this technology could take attention and efforts away from all the other emissions reduction work need right now. The company founder, David Keith, says it will only succeed if government pushes for lower CO2 emissions and puts a price on its production.

Interestingly, while the amount that transit users and walkers spent at area businesses on each trip was less than the average car driver’s, the transit users and walkers made more trips per month, which added up to higher spending overall.

A walkable street is one in which many businesses occupy the bulk of the land, meaning that dozens of destinations can be accessed in a matter of minutes on foot, and that every inch of land is put to economically productive use — not squandered in empty parking lots or unnecessary landscaping.

Our friends at Urban3 consistently found that compact, walkable places produce far more tax value per acre than auto-oriented places—and that holds true in communities across America.

They are also economically significant because of their incredibly high return on public investment. The cost of providing enhancements to pedestrian space such as trees and benches pale in comparison to what we spend when we build around cars.

Furthermore, the wear and tear caused by foot traffic is also negligible compared with the wear and tear caused by car and truck traffic.

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KICK STARTING THE 21st CENTURY NEW ECONOMY IN PETERBOROUGH

moving to locally generated renewable electricity with wartime urgency FRED IRWIN - With the continued use of oil, most of us now know the damage we are causing to our environment, our health, and welfare and perhaps our own existence. That argument is over. We have to eliminate 95% of all the oil we now consume or face a very uncertain future. And, we are running out of time to accomplish this in anything resembling an orderly fashion.

On the positive side, as a community, we seem to be making some progress in advancing local food security and with some local renewable energy generation projects. Then, along came the Ford provincial government with a big machete and promptly cut out Cap & Trade. The Green Energy Act's support for local power generation and electrification of our personal transportation fleet was chopped, too. As an outcome of such short sighted decisions, the Ford government is rolling back progress on reducing our consumption of oil by years.

Peterborough will have to learn rather quickly to support its own 21st century economy with the efficient use of renewable electricity. Because electricity can't be transmitted over long distances without huge losses, most of that electricity will have to be produced locally.

The question then becomes how we kickstart the 21st Century New Economy in Peterborough, remembering that it's all about the efficient use of local energy and keeping as much of the money earned and generated here in the GPA, so that it re- circulates and is invested locally.

So, any Kick Start 21st Century program, to be successful, has to be financed locally by local governments and their citizens. It would include locally produced renewable electricity, incidentally, a common goal, around which progressives and conservatives could unify. It would allow us to pull ourselves up by our own boot straps economically, and halt the wasteful expenditures of the conventional 20th century economy, such as the Parkway. It could, as a result, catapult the GPA into the new 21st century economy, by creating opportunities for new local investment in the local economy.

If nothing else, this town stands as one in support of its hockey team, so let’s take this example of unity as a basis for the kind of concentrated effort we need.

The Peterborough 21 Program’s Project One would be to build a new, bold, energy efficient 21st century Memorial Centre in Downtown Peterborough, a new home for the LIVING LOCALLY

Petes. It should be built on the Townsend St City Works Yard rather than at Morrow Park, as recommended by the consultants. A single pad will work fine. There is already a double pad planned for Trent University.

Project Two would be the Memorial Centre. It could be repurposed as a home for the Lakers combined with a local food hub and powered by its own energy co-op.

The consultants hired for locating a new Memorial Centre are seemingly using a 20th century business as usual approach. Their recommendation is all about capital cost rather than building an edifice that could become the “Kick Start Revitalization Program” for the Downtown and the entire community.

To make all of this happen, our best local brains are needed. The goal would be to figure out how to finance the project locally. It needs to be integrated with a local off grid supply of renewable electricity. The entire project could be connected through the internet, allowing two way storage to power personal electric cars and eventually public street cars. The tie- in power generation plant would be a rooftop solar powered cogeneration co-op utilizing rooftops in the downtown core. The co-op would partner with the City owned PUS and small and large Peterborough City and County investors. The co-generation co-op would supply electricity as well as heating and cooling to building owners in the downtown core.

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TRANSITION TOWN INVITES YOU TO JOIN US

Operating Collective Board of Directors: Chair: Cheryl Lyon Secretary: Linda Briden Business Manager: Fred Irwin Permaculture Operations: Andrea Connell Volunteer Support: Dave Sumner Member-at-Large: Christopher Bocking Kawartha Loon Exchange Board of Governors: Chair: Fred Irwin Members: Dave Green, Brooke Taylor, Derry O'Byrne, Chris Bocking, Michael Bell Greenzine Magazine & Local Food Guide Publisher: Transition Town Peterborough Production: Knowabout Peterborough Editorial Collective: Cheryl Lyon, Andrea Connell, Patricia Remy, Bill Eekhoff, Peter Currier Purple Onion & Dandelion Day Festivals Organizing Collective Event Manager: Andrea Connell Entertainment: Michael Bell

Transition Town Peterborough, founded in 2007, is part of a world-wide grassroots movement based on permaculture values and design principles. It was created to face the 3 interdependent predicaments of Climate

Change, the Global Energy Crisis and Economic Uncertainty.

TTP focusses on the economic localization of 5 life essentials to build both personal and community resilience: Energy, Water, Food, Wellness,

and

Culture.

We have many great opportunities for Volunteers to get involved! Festivals, Publishing, Administration, Sales, Promotions, Fundraising,Social Media, Networking, Mentoring, Board of Directors and more!

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Bring your passion for your local community, Volunteer Support: David Sumner

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TTP relies enormously on the many Volunteers who help at our Festivals, come to the Meet Ups, distribute Greenzines and Local Food Guides, donate, write, befriend us on Facebook, and generally live and breathe the values of Transition in their community. Together we become resilient and adaptive to a changing world.

making a dierence!

TTP is a not-for-profit corporation registered as an Ontario business.

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Call Dave at 289.339.9053, 905.515.3179 or email bodgerdave.sumner@gmail.com If you see a place for you in the TTP Operating Collective (at left) or in any other way, CONTACT Dave Sumner, Volunteer Support bodgerdave.sumner@gmail.com 905515-3179 Yes, Transition Town Peterborough invites you to transform the world, starting with your own community!

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