S.E.N.S. monthly meeting.

Over 100 people showed up to support making local food our economic motor. Excellent presentations were given as well as great comments and questions from the audience.

Click on "Read more" below to access links and references to the presentations, including the problems associated with the industrial food system and the successes obtained by building a new Creative Rural Economy.

National Film Board film

Monsanto is the world leader in genetically modified organisms (GMOs), as well as one of the most controversial corporations in industrial history. This century-old empire has created some of the most toxic products ever sold, including polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) and the herbicide Agent Orange. Based on a painstaking investigation, The World According to Monsanto puts together the pieces of the company’s history, calling on hitherto unpublished documents and numerous first-hand accounts.

Centralized sewering and wastewater treatment sanitation systems were designed to solve severe environmental and health problems caused by open sewers and cesspools.

Today centralized sewage and wastewater treatment systems are proving to compound environmental problems and to be unsustainable and costly.

– Editorial by Guy Dauncey

Al Gore called it The Inconvenient Truth, and I’ll bet he’s had many sleepless nights since his film came out.

We live in very troubling times, since the gravity of the looming climate crisis is being pushed out of people's minds by a desperate concern to restore economic growth, aided by a successful campaign by climate-deniers and fossil fuel interests to downplay the risks of climate change and emphasize the virtues of the so-called ‘ethical’ oil sands and so-called ‘clean’ natural gas.

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