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Black Carbon Pollution Emerges As Major Player In Global Warming

Posted: Tue March 25, 2008
Black carbon, a form of particulate air pollution most often produced from biomass burning, cooking with solid fuels and diesel exhaust, has a warming effect in the atmosphere three to four times greater than…

The Home Depot Launches National CFL Recycling Initiative

Posted: Tue March 11, 2008
One way to cut down on Green House Gas emissions is to switch to energy-efficient light bulbs like Compact Flourescents. Unfortunately the drawbacks is that they contain mercury and need to be disposed of…

Air Quality and Your Health videos

Posted: Fri February 22, 2008
The award-winning video Making a Difference: Air Quality and Your Health was created to advance public understanding of air pollution, its sources and health effects. A collaborative, multi-agency effort to address shared air quality…

District of Sechelt Council adopted the Bylaw to Ban the Cosmetic Use of Pesticides

Posted: Fri February 22, 2008
February 2008: District of Sechelt Council adopted the Bylaw to Ban the Cosmetic Use of Pesticides - congratulation to the SCCAS Pesticide Committee, and to all the others involved! The Sunshine Coast becomes a…

General meeting announced

Posted: Fri February 15, 2008
SUNSHINE COAST CLEAN AIR SOCIETY general meeting: Sunday, March 2, 2008 at 1.30 p.m. in the Stalashen Clubhouse, Wilson Creek.

Highligts from Greenhouse Gas Emmission Data 1990-2004 (pdf)

Posted: Mon February 11, 2008
Check it out: Highlights from Greenhouse Gas Emmission Data 1990-2004 (pdf)

What a diesel filter can do to improve air quality

Posted: Thu February 22, 2007
This photo was published in 2005 in the ADAC magazine, from the German automobil association. To the left you can see the amount of carbon-particulate matter (grime) released into the air with a filter…

An (Un) Neighbourly Nuisance, by Michael Jessen

Posted: Sat April 22, 2006
click here to read - pdf

A poem - by Rosemary Holmes-Smith, Sechelt BC

Posted: Wed February 22, 2006
DESPERATION by Rosemary Holmes-Smith, Sechelt, B.C We’re living in a world of faded dreams Clinging to our lifestyle to avoid the screams Of third world hunger, poverty and war, But all our actions are…

District of Sechelt: Bylaw 446, 2005 to Prohibit Backyard Burning.

Posted: Wed February 22, 2006
Now what is allowed, and what is prohibited! Burning Bylaw 446 PDF


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