Other Green News

The woman sometimes known affectionately as the "bird lady" of Mississauga died last week. Bernice Inman-Emery, who operated the Winding Lane Bird Sanctuary, was diagnosed with Alzheimer's Disease over a year ago, and was living at Leisure World. She died on January 27, 2009.

It was bound to happen eventually: the Emerald Ash Borer infestation in Toronto has now spread to Pickering.

According to the Ajax/Pickering News Advertiser, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency confirmed the infestation in December - the first infestation in Durham Region. The affected area is near Finch and Liverpool Road "on a residential street".

Here's what you need to know to help prevent its spread to other trees, and what you should do if you find one.

Here's a quick tip on one really easy thing we can do that can potentially

• Help our environment
• Boost our local economy
• Save trees
• Spend our local tax money more effectively

Are you ready to hear what this one simple thing is?

As you may have heard, Toronto Hydro is investigating the possibility of building a wind farm near Toronto, about 2km offshore in Lake Ontario.

We have created a new section on the website just to help people who want to find out more what the wind farm is about, or who want to keep an eye on the current status.

Find out more about the wind farm here: Toronto Wind Farm

Although areas outside the "banana belt" known as the GTA have already received a good amount of snow, last night we all got the first "real" snow in the GTA.

Let's celebrate winter! Here are some pictures taken of the snow in the GTA last night and this morning - to remind us that snow can be pretty, as well as slow to travel in.

You may not have heard of it, but the Winding Lane Bird Sanctuary in Mississauga has been caring for birds for longer than most of us reading this have been alive.

According to The Mississauga News, the bird sanctuary is currently in danger of being developed.

GreenGTA is happy to announce that we will now be publishing Science Matters - a weekly column by David Suzuki & Dr. Faisal Moola on the site.

You can read this week's column today - The answer is blowin’ in the wind!, or read upcoming columns on the Science Matters page.

The Conference Board of Canada has released it's "How Canada Performs" report card on Canada's environmental performance. The results are an insightful look into how well we as a community are treating the environment, in comparison with our peer countries.

We have summarized some of the interesting findings of the report here, and you can also read the full report online.

Last Friday, Premier Dalton McGuinty and a delegation from Ontario headed to China on a trade mission. The goal of the mission was to create wealth in Ontario by "selling environmental technologies to China".

Yesterday it was announced that a Chinese company will be investing in a biomass power plant in Ontario in partnership with a Canadian company.

The Oak Ridges Moraine supplies drinking water to more than 250,000 people and contains the headwaters of all of the watersheds in Toronto. It is important to our water as it filters rain and snow and releases fresh water that we drink.

According to an article in the Toronto Star, the province allowed 70,000 tires to be buried on a farm on the moraine almost 10 years ago.