Reactions from a screening at Sir Sandford Fleming College

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The first screening, tonight (December 3), is at 7pm. It will be hosted by NDP MP Peggy Nash and while it is free optional donation will be accepted for the Redwood Women’s Shelter.

Tonights screening of Garbage! will be followed by KILLER’S PARADISE:

“…directed by Toronto-based Giselle Portenier, uncovers the horrific situation in Guatemala, where 2,000 women have been murdered since 1999 and the perpetrators gone unpunished.”

The second screening free screening at the Revue will be this Sunday, December 9 at 2 PM.

If you have a Facebook account you can find out more at http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=6659550804 otherwise please visit the Revue Cinema home page.

 “After seven years on council, I think I’ve worked pretty hard to ensure that environmental principles are built into our policies and procedures,” says Knoll. “For example, we introduced Green Bins to Oakville with a pilot project in my ward. Politicians have valuable resources at their fingertips to make changes to legislation, to by-laws. But at some point, people have to realize that conservation depends on the end user and it’s difficult to get people to buy into it.”

Read the full story at  http://www.oakvilletoday.ca/news/article/140169

 Mark: And by the way, the stuff in the bottle isn’t as well regulated as the stuff that comes out of your tap.  Compare what the EPA requires of your tap water to what the FDA looks at in your bottled water.  See who makes you feel better about what you’re drinking.  But the bottom line is that, on the whole, the water from your tap is healthy for you, healthy for your family and a whole lot healthier for the planet.  Take the money you save and put it to good use, if you can.

Eric: That’s also what we’re also trying to do by using a portion of the proceeds from every Tappening bottle sale to promote the documentary you mentioned calledGarbage! The Revolution Starts at Home. Now they are starting to get traffic from our site… and that’s the way you start to bind thousands of people together behind a cause. 

Read the whole thing at http://stephaniefierman.com/stephanie-fierman-is-tappening-are-you.php

Garbage lessons not lost on viewers 
By: Jessica Young
Keep three months’

worth of garbage in your garage. Instead of throwing trash to the curb, pile all that waste and watch it sit and rot. 
Sounds like a crazy idea, but the McDonald family of Toronto did just that as the subjects of a new environmental documentary called Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home, by Toronto filmmaker Andrew Nisker. 

Read the full article at http://www.yrng.com/article/61328