Good to Know

  WHAT A WASTE! Here in Canada 26% of our landmass is tundra comprising  over  2 million and six hundred thousand Km2. A lot of people are not aware that with global overheating our permafrost here in Canada is melting at an alarming rate releasing methane gas which is 30-40   times more potent in trapping the heat from the sun than carbon dioxide. The warmer climate could drastically change the landscape and determine who can live there,  and what species of plants and animals will be able to live   there. For example, the growth of new shrubs might crowd out lichen, an important food source for caribou. As the tundra warms we will see an increase of wildfires and droughts.    As  the tundra continues to melt  scientists are extremely worried  about the  release of ancient bacteria of which we have no immunity  and other organisms   which have been trapped in the tundra for millions of years. In Sib...

You can contact me at 705-309-7452     Aesop's Fables (5-9 year olds)  A great number of teachers and TL's are buying Aesop’s Fables for   their classrooms andthe school. Aesop's fables have been specifically rewritten to address the variety of reading levels found in primary classrooms.  This is an ideal book to be used for the whole class from grade 1 to grade 3.   The book is a great buy as it contains 20 fables with lessons that   resonate with decision making when it comes to appropriate behaviour.   Perhaps one of the most quoted fables by parents and teachers is the one from the Grasshopper and the Ants - f irst, you work and then you play.  A Wish for Haidan (7-9 year olds) This fairy young boy  who is granted 3 wishes on one condition.  Trying to meet this condition brings astonishing  changes to his  environment and  his life.  This book will inspire young readers to become  more engaged i...

Help Save  Yourself I just  heard in the news that  Trump’s administration is pulling out of all International Climate / Environmental Agreements signed by  197 parties.  Of all the serious life- ending  global  problem  facing us  GHG’s triggering global overheating is number one!    When the US pulls out, all kinds of parties will  argue why should they set targets if the US which is 2nd biggest producer of carbon will pollute  and produce GHG’s at will!   The  alarming climate  crisis  is global!  There is no country on Earth where you can escape out- of- control killer forest fires,  deadly and property damaging flooding, regular killer tornadoes, widespread droughts  killing farming  in many countries,  more frequent property damaging and killers hurricanes!  I have been a tireless advocate  promoting the ecological health of Mother Earth, by being...

Years ago, I would spend hours and hours cleaning up the garden so that it was transformed into a barre n bed of lumpy soil.  To put the garden to bed I cut back all my perennials, I pulled out all my annuals, I raked the leaves from the garden and lawn and dug  up, pulled all the weeds, and turned over the soil.  It was a lot of backbreaking grunt work, but I thought it was necessary to get the garden ready for spring planting. Then, after reading about the components and importance and healthy soil I realized I had been doing a lot of counterproductive and unnecessary work. First of all I learned that soil is teeming with living organisms inducing bacteria, archaea, actinomycetes, fungi, algae, protozoa, and a wide variety of larger soil fauna, including springtails, mites, nematodes, earthworms, ants, and insects that spend all or part of their life underground, including larger organisms such as burrowing rodents. It tu rns out one teaspoon of...