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Smog an individual responsibility
It’s good to see Orillia City Council looking at the issue of smog.
Next month, council will consider a staff report on a smog-fighting policy and look at a draft bylaw to limit vehicle idling to three minutes.
In May, the Simcoe Muskoka District Health Unit is launching the "Turn it off" [...]

 
Suttons Bay: The High Road or the Drive-Through?

by Kathy Finch

Planning Commissioner, Village of Suttons Bay
The Village of Suttons Bay is at a crossroads. The Planning Commission and Village Council finds themselves in a debate on the topic of drive-throughs: Is there a place for them in the Village…or not? There are adamant opponents to drive-throughs, [...]

Owners battle ban
Drive-thrus threatened
http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=948735
By JACK POIRIER
The Observer
Restaurant owners are lining up to place an order at Sarnia’s drive-thru window.
Local and national representatives from McDonalds Restaurants, Tim Hortons, and Ontario’s Restaurant, Hotel, and Motel Association have already met with Sarnia Mayor Mike Bradley to discuss local interest in banning drive-thrus.
Association president [...]

Save gas: Don’t use the drive-thru!
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20080319/BLOG15/918398076
I know I’ve been all about cars this week, but I couldn’t resist mentioning today’s Ideal Bite tip, released as part of the Web portal’s Bust-a-Myth Week.
Myth: You burn more gas if you turn your car off and on than you do if you let your car [...]

 
WORLD’S GLACIERS MELTING AT RECORD RATE – UN
 
New York, Mar 16 2008  7:00PM
With global glaciers — a vital water source for millions, or even billions, of people worldwide — melting at a record rate, the United Nations Environment Programme www.unep.org urged countries to agree on a new emissions reduction pact.
 
According to the UNEP-backed World Glacier [...]

Expansive tastes
UPDATED: 2008-03-05 04:16:39 MST
By MARKUS ERMISCH
Quiznos plans to sink its corporate teeth deeper into Calgary this year by opening three new outlets, CEO Greg MacDonald said yesterday.
The toasted-sandwich maker currently operates 25 outlets in Calgary.
MacDonald said Calgary is a "good development market" because of the city’s strong economy, noting Quiznos’ profits [...]

March 3, 2008
Drive-Thrus Could Face Difficult Future
A number of Canadian cities are looking at banning, regulating, or studying the environmental impacts of drive-thru restaurants, EcoSpace reports.
The cities, including North Vancouver, BC, Edmonton, AB, King’s County, NS, and Toronto, Peterborough, London, Ajax, Mississauga, and Sarnia, ON, are worried about the environmental damage caused by idling vehicles.
It’s [...]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2004/feb/22/usnews.theobserver

Now the Pentagon tells Bush: climate change will destroy us
· Secret report warns of rioting and nuclear war · Britain will be ‘Siberian’ in less than 20 years · Climate change threat to the world is greater than terrorism

Mark Townsend and Paul Harris in New York
The Observer,
Sunday February 22 2004
This article [...]