This week:

• Jordan Poppenk follows a story about the Tiny Township acquifer - recently found to be the purest source of water on the planet - in our first appearance in the Queen’s Park press gallery (with an exclusive question period: backgrounder here).
• We present a recent lecture by Jack Santa-Barbara, director of the Sustainable Scale Project, an NGO dedicated to promoting a scale of human economic activity that is ecologically realistic in the long term.

The headlines in brief:

• The Climate Action Network — a coalition of environmental groups – has unveiled a list of actions it says the government could take to curb emissions;
• An international conference for convention planners in Toronto is being touted as the country’s first large-scale zero-waste convention;
• Two trucks carrying medical waste from Toronto overturned earlier in the week on a highway in Michigan;
• Quebec Premier Jean Charest announced the start of construction Thursday for the province’s biggest hydroelectric project in a decade, the $5-billion Eastmain -1-A in northern Quebec;
• It could be 2009 before a plan to clean up the Yukon’s Faro mine site is completed;
• The US Government removed a ban on oil and gas exploration in an endangered Right Whale habitat;
• Scientists claim some earthquakes may be caused by human factors, such as mining;
• A warm December made 2006 warmest year in the US since recordkeeping began.

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