This week:

• We celebrate six months of The Green Majority!
• Jordan Poppenk talks environmental politics with Green Party Leader Elizabeth May at the University of Toronto’s Sustainable Energy Fair. Please note that The Green Majority is not politically affiliated and that our name is inspired by polls indicating that a majority of Canadians want to live a more environmentally sustainable lifestyle.
  
• Letitia Henville speaks with University of Toronto Professor Edmund O’Sullivan about the upcoming OISE Spirit Matters Gathering, One Earth Community: Sharing Our Stories.
• Natalie Gibb, Director of Toronto Skillshare 2007, talks about her skillshare event.

The headlines in brief:

• The clean air draft legislation has come back from its parliamentary committee, and while federal Conservatives are not happy with it, they are now forced to scrap it or allow it to pass;
• A study by Canada’s Library of Parliament suggests that Canada’s $1.5 billion investment in biofuels will do little to cut dependence on fossil fuels or reduce greenhouse emissions;
• Toronto officials are drafting plans to charge an annual garbage collection fee to residents based on the size of each household’s garbage collection containers;
• The Ontario government is planning to join an emissions cutting program in the U.S. known as the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative;
• The tax laws that affect properties with renewal energy projects in Ontario have been brought under scrutiny by The Municipal Property Assessment Corporation;
• A coalition of environmental groups led by Sierra Legal has launched legal action in Canada’s Federal Court to overturn recent regulatory approval of Imperial Oil’s Kearl Oil Sands project in northern Alberta;
• A new Canadian study indicates that the near extinction of several species of sharks is causing a dangerous ripple effect through the marine food chain;
• The US Supreme court ruled that the Bush administration failed to follow the requirements of the Clean Air Act when it refused to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles;
• A new opinion poll says that over two thirds of the world’s people are worried about climate change;
• Scientists have identified a new danger from climate change: warming seas may lead to increased poisonous algae, making our seafood more toxic.

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