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Recommended Resources The Centre for Conscious Awareness – Canada became a registered charity in June 2010. Founded by Srinivas Arka, it offers courses, seminars and workshops on meditation with the end-goal of supporting Canadian registered charities (and doing community work) that relieves poverty or aid the environment.  Info :  http://www.centreforconsciousawarenesscanada.org/ Centre for Indigenous Environmental Resources - a First Nation directed environmental non-profit charity. Their focus is to work with indigenous nations to build sustainable communities and protect lands and waters.  Info:  http://www.yourcier.org/ The ChariTree Foundation is an environmental education charity for children. It recognizes that kids really do want to help and by having the positive experience of being exposed to nature, of planting trees with their friends, etc. they are very likely to make a lifelong commitment to protect the environment and also have a mor...

Protect our Forests I came across some very interesting tree related topics, two of which I felt needed to be shared on this blog.  The first one is an article from ScienceTimes.com that reveals there are hundreds of millions of hectares of land available for planting and if that was done, that amount of reforesting would erase 100 years of carbon emissions (sciencetimes.com), cutting current carbon emissions by 25%. Good news, potentially... here's the ARTICLE Yet the burning of existing forests continue at a horrendous rate and out pace current replanting efforts. One can take a browse online and find that there are hundreds of tree-planting and land remediation/reclamation organizations that are ramping up efforts and improving rivers, lakes, planting millions of trees annually... thanks to all the individuals out there supporting their work and all the volunteers too. Sadly, fires are all too often caused by careless humans. I've personally witnesse...

-- Chatter --  Time Management - a funny thing, that. When you find yourself harvesting like a mad-person trying to beat the first frost (which may not happen until Oct 1, but the nights are getting too cold to take the risk). Cleaning crates of half ripe and green tomatoes, flats of peppers, heads of cabbages, bags of leeks, trays of herbs... and processing all of that... Well it is that time of year. Whew!  Here's what we've been up to: 2 huge batches of roja and pepper/tomato sauce were processed last week... and we ate far too many stuffed peppers! (burp!) ...Tuesday found us freezing nearly 40 jalopeno rilenoes for future meals, and a huge batch of pepper/sausage stew. Yesterday I made a huge batch of Italian style tomato sauce, froze a few more containers of pesto, and made a huge batch of beef/cabbage stew. Today I'll be making vegetarian lasagnas and tomorrow I'll be making a batch of eggplant gratin. (* Sure wish I could afford to hire a dish-washer to t...