Planet Haliburton

With multiple environmental crises, from extreme weather to biodiversity loss, coming home to roost, interest in building ecologically sustainable communities is on the rise. But what do truly sustainable communities look like and how we can go about building them, especially in rural Ontario?

Sometimes the whole idea of enacting positive environmental change on an individual level can seem overwhelming.  Please join us as we talk with Jessica Correa, founder and owner of Random Acts of Green – RAOG . Jessica will tell us how to work toward positive change as individuals and how to use social media as a tool to make this happen. You won’t want to miss this positive, energetic conversati...

As land-based animals, we often don’t appreciate just how important healthy oceans are to all life on the planet. Yet, one third of the oxygen we breath comes from zooplankton, whose coral nurseries are dying from warming and acidifying seas – caused by human greenhouse gas emissions.

Lake Associations across Haliburton County have been focused on water quality, healthy shorelines and healthy septic systems for years. Some lake associations have consistently taken a leadership role and built proactive programs in an attempt to head off problems before they get out of hand.

Thousands of seasonal and permanent residents of Haliburton County rely on private septic systems to handle their “human waste” or “humanure”. But malfunctioning or poorly maintained systems can have serious negative impacts on both the ground and surface water quality for which Haliburton is famous.

Never-ending economic growth on a finite planet is unsustainable and sooner or later will put humankind on a collision course with environmental realities. However, despite clear evidence that we are undermining crucial ecological systems that support all life on earth, virtually all our economic and political leaders keep promoting policies and practices that demand more and more from a biosphere...

There’s a growing scientific consensus that earth has exited from the “Holocene” geological epoch ushered in by the end of the last ice age 11,700 years ago and entered into a brave new world called “The Anthropocene” – or “time of humans”.

<p>Donald Trump as a candidate for President of the United States took aim at international trade deals like the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) and the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) as being bad deals for America that facilitated the contracting out of millions of American manufacturing jobs.</p><p><br></p><p>Now as President, Trump has given the...

Canadians are the largest per capita producers of garbage in the industrialized world and recycling rates in Ontario haven’t increased beyond 25 percent diversion levels for over 10 years. As a visit to any landfill or transfer station will confirm, we’re being buried in our own waste.

Dianne Saxe, had a distinguished, award-winning 40-year career practising public, private and non-profit environmental law before becoming Ontario’s third Environmental Commissioner since the office was created in 1993. Commissioner Saxe will be visiting Haliburton County at the invitation of Environment Haliburton! (EH!) on July 6th to give a public presentation on “Facing The Climate Crisis” at...

Join co-hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore for a discussion on how the increasing awareness of the relationship between septic systems and algae-causing phosphorus pollution of Haliburton Lakes has got Township Councils across Haliburton County moving toward some form of mandatory septic system inspection.

Join co-hosts Greg Roe and Terry Moore for conversation with Brad Cundiff of the Ontario Clean Air Alliance about the key drivers behind the huge increases in electrical costs across Ontario. Contrary to mainstream commentary, which often erronously points the finger at renewable energy contracts, past nuclear debt and the future retrofitting of aging nuclear reactors are the key reasons costs kee...

Ever wonder about the ecological impact of industrial agriculture? How about the energy and other inputs going into the industrial livestock industry as well as the massive and growing levels of organic waste and greenhouse gas emissions generated in the process?

Join hosts Terry Moore and Greg Roe for a conversation with Paul MacInnes, chair of the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners Associations (CHA) about the CHA’s 4-year “Love Your Lake” Healthy Shorelines Project. With 47 lakes and over 800km of shoreline assessed to date, the interim results show that natural shorelines have been taking a beating all across the County. The good news is that dena...

Join hosts Terry Moore and Greg Roe for a conversation with University of Alberta Political Economy Professor, Gord Laxer, about his 2015 best-selling book “After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians.

Join hosts Terry Moore and Greg Roe for a conversation with Ted Spence. Ted is a retired professor and former dean of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University, an expert on environmental planning and hydrology, and cottages on Catchacoma Lake, the largest reservoir in the TSW.

Join hosts Terry Moore and Greg Roe for a conversation with Peter Sale, marine ecologist, coral expert and author of “Planning for Climate Change In Muskoka.”

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The dust has barely settled from the October 21st federal election and the battle over what the results actually mean is just cranking up.

Ever wonder about the ecological footprint of traditional burials with all those heavy-duty embalming chemicals, cement, steel or fiberglass vaults and finished caskets? Or the amount of carbon emitted if you choose to be cremated?

Despite on-going legal challenges, lingering questions regarding its economic viability, as well as damaging environmental impacts, construction of the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) has started.

The privately-owned Haliburton Forest covers some 100,000 acres within Halliburton County, an area just under half the size of the City of Toronto with 100 lakes within its boundaries.

In today’s world we have come to expect that when we go to our local grocery store we will be able to get almost any fruit or vegetable that the world has to offer, even though they are not in season where we live. We also expect fruits and vegetables that would never be grown here in Canada.

On this episode of Planet Haliburton we feature a full length interview with Paul MacInnes, Chair of the Coalition of Haliburton Property Owners’ Associations (CHA), the driving force behind the Love Your Lake Healthy Shorelines Project and the newly issued Lake Health Report.

Dysart Township’s Environment and Climate Change Committee, chaired by Ward 4 Councillor, John Smith, has been taking on some hot local environmental challenges recently, ranging from a new Fireworks Control Bylaw to Ontario Hydro’s herbicide spraying program along electrical transmission corridors.