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Vol.14 Number 1 - Januray - February 2004 (or download pdf of this issue)

EDITORIAL
Diversity or Division
Who We Are And What We Do

FOLLOW UP
Working Forest Update
B-I-G Victory on ITER -- It's Gone!
Small Step on Crofton
Burns Bog Saved by Governments' Deal

LETTERS
Future of Water in Canada
Thought-Provoking
No Names Here!

ENERGY


Vol.13 Number 5 - November - December 2003 - (or download pdf of this issue)

EDITORIAL
Imagine

LETTERS
I realized I had been lied to
Read the Book, Check out the Video
Watershed Subscribes
Really Running Out of Gas

ENERGY
MillWatch on Coal - Pulp mills and "innovative" fuels
Incineration Repackaged - Energy schemes which are just fancy words for burning

Vol.13 Number 4 - August-October 2003 (or download pdf of this issue)

EDITORIAL
War Against Caution
Buzzarrrrrre

LETTERS
Where Were They?
The Final Coup -- the Working Forest
Download Mad Cow USA

NEWS
Two Billion Tax Bucks For ITER?

BOOK REVIEWS
Books Reveal the Hidden World

NEWS BRIEFS
Quiet For Whales This Fall
ProRep for Quebec
SUVs Go Up In Smoke
EPA Lied About Trade Centre Toxics
Extreme Weather On Rise
In Context
 Mexico's Community-Managed Forests Model Sustainability

WATER STEWARDSHIP
Wastewater Treatment Systems
Types of Waste Water Treatment Systems
Climate Change Impacts on Water

FOOD AND FARMING
Farming in the New Millennium
How You Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm?

TOXICS AND PRECAUTION
A Long-Term Risky Business
Status of Toxic Wood in Canada
Gas From Non-stick Pots Kills Birds

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
Water Stewardship So Far!
Sustainability Home Show 2003!

OPINION
Wildfires

FEATURE
Landscapes of the Heart


Vol.13 Number 3 - June/July 2003

EDITORIAL
Did BC Hydro Blink
Mad Cow Canada? - We Told You First
Upcoming - We're taking a short summer recess

LETTERS
Equal Space for Positive Savings
Sustaining Recognition

ENERGY
Running Out of Gas

CLEARCUTTING
The Cut Goes On
Softwood War Claims Public Good

NEWS BRIEFS
ToxicSmart Home Education program returns for a second season

SUSTAINABLE OCEANS
Co-operation for the Salish Sea
Oil & the Salish Sea - Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons Impact on Fish Stocks
Singing in the Rain - Harvesting the Treasure from the Sky
How Composting Works
Focus on Laundry Detergents

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
BC Provincial Park Timeline
Locals Brave New BC Parks Rules
Forest Recreation Sites Breakthrough

OPINION
An Activist's Experience at the Environmental Appeal Board - Communities don't mix with corporate pesticides
Toronto pesticide ban sets example

FEATURE
Clayoquot Sound …10 Years Later
What in the World is Happening with Water?


Vol.13 Number 2 - April/May 2003


Vol.13 Number 1 - February/March 2003

EDITORIAL
Positive and Negative
From a Dark Hole
Last Cut is the Hardest          

LETTERS
Let’s Face It ... Campbell Is Right
Re: Sockeye Circles
Excellent Publication

SPOTLIGHT
Olympic Nightmare

ANAYLSIS - British Columbia Government Drops Environmental Forestry
Corporate Forest Control Ensured
Sustainable Forest Solutions
Rainforests Clearcut After Deal
How Much Forest Should Be Retained?
Forest Code Stripped of Legal Preamble- The Preamble defined the multi-uses for the public forests. It's gone.
When the Boys Got to Victoria, the Wild West Opened for Business - Removing Laws and Regulations, Disenfranchising the Public and Trashing a Province

FEATURE
Taku -- A Hope for Wilderness
The Power of Hope
Mining's Lasting Legacy
Acid Mine Drainage
Mining the Taxpayer

OPINION
What Can Save BC's Orphaned Parks? - regional governments are no safe haven
Fallow Farms Would Save Wild Pinks
Revised Logging Plan Cuts Old Forest
Polluters Play, Who Pays

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
2002 was a Busy Year
On the Living Edge - Your Handbook for Waterfront Living


Vol.12 Number 6 - December 2002/January 1003

EDITORIAL
     ICBC: An Environmental Issue     

LETTERS-PROBLEMS WITH PULP MILL REPORTS
     Elk Falls Not Now Burning Coal
     AOX Law Unworkable

HUMOUR
     Jillions of Jobs at Stake on Kyoto - Some startling new developments into what disasters await Canada if it ratifies the Kyoto Protocol, as Prime Minister Jean Chretien has promised

NEWS
     Deregulated Power Cost Soars - Ontario consumers react in shock; government backtracks
     Cash and Gas for EcoReserve - GSX Pipeline and Satellite Channel Ecological Reserve 67
     Charges for Pine River Spill
     Heiltsuk Nation Occupies Ocean Falls Fish Farm Site
     Doctors and Health Workers Protest Gas Plant
     Herbicide Alert Follow Up

ANAYLTICAL REVIEW
     Climate Change Revolution - The climate's in for some radical changes, but so is society

FEATURES
     The Death of Frankenfoods - After Victory in Europe, It's Time to Nail the Coffin Shut
     Canada uses NAFTA to avoid GE labels
     Fear and Joy on the Path to Change - Was there really any hope of changing people's minds?
     NAFTA Threatens Pesticides Ban
     Potatoes With Heft - garden changes we should be making as a result of climate change
     The Biggest Show on Earth - The World Summit on Sustainable Development
     Buffalo Census 2002
     Trees for Life - Restoring the Native Forests of the Scottish Highlands
     Sockeye Circles
     Wild Fishers, Wild Fish - Why the trollers held a protest fishery in Johnstone Strait this summer
     Farmed and Dangerous
     BC Fish Farms to Expand Despite Trouble - foreign-owned fish farms are ecologically unsustainable and barely profitable

2020 ACTION ALERT
     Federal Intervention To Save BC's Wild Salmon


Vol.12 Number 5 - October/November 2002

EDITORIAL     

LETTERS
     On the Good Ship Sustainable Development
     Super Appalling BC
     Gentlemen, Hold Your Tire Fires!

NEWS
     Mill Praises Coal as Clean Fuel
     Vancouver Island Energy News - Wind Withdraws - Coal Plant - Nanaimo Gas Plant
     Arsenic Hazard Admitted, Sort of
     The Complete Idiot's Guide to Negotiations at the Earth Summit
     World Summit of Shameful Deals
     Transportation on the Move
     New GM Fuel Cell Vehicle Unveils Modular Design
     In Vancouver, Take out a CanCart Loaner!
     Cardiff's Space Age Taxis
     Curbing Diesel Fumes
     Weyerhaeuser Loses Haida Appeal
     See You at the Home Show!

TOOLBOX; FREEDOM OF INFORMATION
     A Guide to Making Effective Use of Access to Information
     Frequently Asked Questions on Federal and British Columbia FOI laws
     Public Interest Environmental Law
     Setbacks in CanadaSetbacks in Canada

CONSERVATION
     The New Wave - Ground breaking Marine Protection for BC's Central Coast
     A Guide to Define Endangered Forests in BC
     Ancient Sentinels - The Rainforest Conservation Corridor for the Robson Valley
     Truth Brownout on Vancouver Island

GROWING GREEN
     The Zen of Garden Angst


EDITORIAL
     Clear Eyed Idealism
     Towards the New Economy
     When it doesn't work, do it some more!
     Results on BC Forest Code

LETTERS

NEWS
     Cosmetic Pesticide Bans Escalate
     EPA Must Protect Salmon
     BC Water Act Under Siege
     Earth First! Wins in Court
     Ontario to Trash the Northern Boreal for Pulp
     From Sludge to Hydrogen
     Making it Easy to Write Letters-to-the-Editor
     Climate Numbers that Count

FEATURES
     Saving Water Drip by Drop
     Growing Green (in the Garden, that is): Heavy Metal Discord
     Towards Freedom: The G8 and Beyond

ENERGY FEATURES
     Burning Proposals
     Sea Breeze Tests the Wind
     The Biodiesel Project: Fuelling the Eco-Revolution
     Canola Diesel Additive Makes Buses Run Cleaner

TRAVEL - Tibetan Guides Reveal Country Truths

20-20 ACTION ALERT - Saying NO to US Expansion of Nuclear Weapons

OPINION
     Anne's Rant On Burning Tires

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND - Living on Islands, Living by Water


Vol.12 Number 3 - June/July 2002

EDITORIAL
       Black Masks
     So Quotable
     Welcome
     Your Signature Counts!

OPINION
     Words from the Chilcotin on How to Survive the Blizzard

NEWS
     Great Bear Rainforest Deal Still On
     Georgia Strait Crossing Review to Include Emissions
     Economical Solution for BC Hydro
     Light Shines Green for Conservation
     Albertans Back Kyoto

FEATURE - Taking Care Of Water
     The Salish Sea - Pulling the Plug on Pollution
     Dioxin on Farmland

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND - You Are What You Drink!

FEATURE on G8 Protestors
     Global Justice for the G6B
     Ruckus Society
     Starhawk

FEATURE on Fallout
     The Boomers and the Bomb
     Government Ignores Impact Of Eating Hot Milk
     BC Radiological Protection Branch Responds

FEATURE
     Looking Forward

NEWS
     BC Oysters Face Cadmium Challenge


Vol.12 Number 2 - April/May 2002

EDITORIAL
     A Democratic Step
     Quotes for the Times
     Youth Talks!
     UnBleached Breakthrough!

LETTERS
     To Whom It May Concern: At Youbou the Clause which tied the trees to the jobs mysteriously disappeared
     Stop Wood Fire Pollution with Cheap Hydro and Gas
     www.oilcrisis.com
     Yep, we goofed again!

NOTE - Terrorism in perspective

NEWS
     New BC Sludge Rules Mimic US Mistakes
     Haida File for Offshore Jurisdiction
     The Pro Rep Campaign - A Citizen's Initiative to Establish A Proportional Representation Electoral System in BC
     Who Bombed Judi Bari? - Case gets to Court after 11 years

SHORT STORY - Singing Trees

FEATURE - Clayoquot Retrospective

POEM - For the Warriors - Clayoquot Peace Camp and Sidney River

FOREST NEWS
     Planning for Extinction on East Vancouver Island's private and public land
     MacMillan park threatened by adjacent logging
     Companies Get Results in BC
     Raw Log Export Tax
     Fish Over Condos
     Fourth WildEarth Gathering

FOOD STUFF
     Dances with Centipedes
     Cuba Brows Organic Harvest
     Organics for the Dalai Lama
     Clopyralid Contaminates Compost
     BT Corn: A Triple Negative for US Farmers
     A Contaminant for Mexico's Wild Maize

FEATUREs
     Planning for Extinction on East Vancouver Island's private and public land
     Mapping the Islands in the Salish Sea

OPINION
     Gaining A Toe-hold - Its time to talk about a Guaranteed Annual Income for all
     British Columbia's Referendum on Treaty Negotiations - by Chief Sayers
     How To Vote Against The Referendum - the Rejected Ballot

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND - A Cure for Transportation Anxiety: The Car Co-op Comes to Cortes


Vol.12 Number 1 - February/March 2002

EDITORIAL - Growth
     Quote for Thought

MAILBAG - Voluntary Measures, Involuntary Extinction

NEWS
     Orcas Move to Endangered List
     Manitoba leads in Product Stewardship
     New Car Smell Sickening
     Is BC Ready to Free the Vote?
     De-Regulation for Pulp Pollution
     Swans Mix with Motors - Coast Guard puts Columbia Wetlands under threat
     At the Goat, the Road's in the River. Where Else Would You Put It?
     US Navy Sonar Killed Whales

OIL FROM COAST TO COAST
     First the Facts on Offshore Oil
     Keep Our Coast Oil Free
     Toxic Downwinds: No Redress - Book Review

FEATURE - The Earth Charter - Values and Principles for a Sustainable Future

CLIMATE CHANGE
     The Runaway Greenhouse Effect - Extract from Stormy Weather
     Air Pollution News - Gas Ovens Pollute Kitchens
     How Fast Could Climate Really Change?
     Ratify Kyoto Now - Critical 2002 Climate Change Action Item

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND - Community Education Towards Sustainability in Our Time

FORESTRY
     BC Community Forestry Forum - explores the promise of the path less followed and its potential in BC and beyond
     Profile: Harrop-Proctor Community Forest
     East Creek on Vancouver Island: Going Down - The 85th of 90 Primary Watersheds on Vancouver Island is targeted for industrial logging
     Critters' Connections Face Cut - Will Weyerhaeuser Jeopardize Dating Scene for Island Species?

NOTICE BOARD
     Private Lands in Trust Registry Now On Web
     Looking for the Top Ten Going Down
     Youth Talks at the Watershed Sentinel


Vol.11 Number 5 - Devember 2001/January 2002

SUSTAINABILITY
     I Dream of Pueblo Verde, and a Road Map to Get There from Here
     Three Third World Communities Lead the Way to Sustainability

POWER
     Oil and War
     Quotes to Savour
     Coal Bed Methane
     New Power Emerges from the Waves
     Life in the Sea Doesn't Like Gas
     Biogas Opportunities
          Learning from Plants
          Extension on Sour Gas Pollution
          Air Index is Off the Wall
          Caving in on Zero Emissions
          St. Lawrence Oil and Gas Moratorium
     Energy Confusion in BC's New Era

FOREST INDUSTRY
     Yes, A Magic Bullet for Forest Woes
     Central Coast Truce Disturbed by New Process
     'Forest Renewal' BC Scrapped
     Innovative Forestry Agreements, An Affront to Common Sense

ALSO
     Recycling: Include Milk!
     Water Runs Through Friends of Cortes 2001 AGM
     Better Left Said by The EcoCurmudgeon


Vol.11 Number 4 - August/November 2001

EDITORIAL
     You Can't Buy Class
     Quote of the Month     

ENERGY
     Oil & Gas Disrupts Life
     Green Energy for Vancouver Island
     Coals Health Subsidy
     Tidal Power Starts on Sonora
     The Wind: You CAN See the Map
     2nd Tidal Wave Hits Port Alberni
     Hishukishtswalk - on Re-zoning of Lands for Generation Plant
     Clean Energy Health and Environment - Union of Concerned Scientists

WATER
     Time and Rivers
     The Global Water Treaty
     The Taking of Canada's Water
     Tips for Taking Care of Water - Solar Power for Clean Water
          Water Resources for Very Small Islands
          How Groundwater Gets Contaminated
          Safe Water Group Offers "Virtual Town Hall" at www.safewatergroup.org
     Cortes E-Team Gets Its Feet Wet

TOXICS POLICIES
     Supreme Court Upholds Hudson's Local Pesticide Laws
     MTBE Additive Moves in Water
     Mercury - My Story
     Take a Toxic Tour of Sydney
     The Tar Ponds, A Tale of Canadian Corruption
     Workers Target Toxins

ALSO INSIDE:
     Softwood Subsidies
     Mountain Pine Beetle: Natures Disaster Relief Troops
     DFO Opens George's Bank to Draggers
     Organic Agriculture is Inevitable
     Curriculum: Sustainability - Oak and Orca School teaches for a bioregional future
     The EcoCurmudgeon
     2020 Action Alert - A Full Review of Salmon Aquaculture in BC


EDITORIAL
     Democracy on Line
     Quote of the Month

STOP THE PRESSES
     Canadian Infectious Diseases Society called for a moratorium on landspreading of sewage and other biosolids     

HUMOUR
     Earth Increasing Exponentially - New study shows gloom unjustified, as global expansion will continue indefinitely

NEWS
     Canada Signs POPs Treaty
     Public Supports Grizzly-hunt Ban
     
Habitat Protection Bylaws on Saltspring Island
     
Canola Recall in Canada
     BC Hydro's Got the Urge to Burn - The economics don't add up and the optics are awful

REPORT
     The Real Dope on Beef Hormones - Is Canadian meat safe to eat, or just another hazard to our health?

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Save That Oystercatcher!

SPECIAL BOOK PREVIEW
     Stormy Weather - "There isn't one solution to Global Climate Change ... there are 101 solutions"

ACTION
     Time for DFO to Act on Habitat

FOLLOW UP
     Mexico Pays, Communities Lose - Metalclad Ruling offers no relief for Free Trade fears

SPECIAL REPORT
Sewage Sludge - Valuable Biosolid or Toxic Hazard?
     IN THE UNITED STATES: Landspreading Rules Under Investigation
     IN BEAUTIFUL BC: Sludge Regs Ready to Roll
     IN ONTARIO: A Guide to Action on Sewage Sludge
     How Do You Take Action?

FEATURE
     Beyond the 2 Percent Solution - Energy isn't scarce. What's scarce is the wisdom to use it wisely.
     To drill or not to drill on BC's Raincoast

REPORT
     What Causes Breast Cancer? - Prevention is ignored if it doesn't promise to produce big profits.
     Food Cans Leach Hormones
     Sun Screens Deliver More Than Advertised

LETTERS
     Our ecospiritual crisis
     Renewed interest
     Efforts appreciated
     Leadership Lacking
     Inadequate protection


Vol.11 Number 2 - April/May 2001

EDITORIAL - Voting Green

NEWS
     Wanted: Volunteers - The Watershed Sentinel is in need of volunteer help
     Protect The Source Of Drinking Water - Market Prices for logs could have paid an extra $6 billion in five years
     Stumpage Rip Off - Market Prices for logs could have paid an extra $6 billion in five years
     Alcan at the Water Trough ... Again! - The Alcan plan: more water, more money ... more ... more ... more
     Forester Speaks Out - Valedictorian Laurel Brewster looks to a new future for forestry

OPINION
     Free Trade for Dummies - Are Canada's nearly-free trees a subsidized forest to US markets?
     Democracy - The Struggle and the Dream

FEATURE
     Air Pollution - What's Going On Up There? and What's It Doing Down Here?
     Ozone on the Ground and in the Sky
     The Particulars On Particulate

NEWS FEATURE
     Canada Not Safe From Disease - Mad Cow disease measures have been woefully inadequate.

LETTERS FROM KENYA
"We Needed to Take Our Power Back." - The 2001 Global Youth Retreat in Kenya prepares for next year's Earth Summit in Africa.

TRAVEL
     Seven Days with the Zapatistas

IN MEMORIUM
     On Visioning - Donella Meadows, one of the authors of Limits to Growth - excerpt is from her book, Beyond the Limits.

SOAPBOX
     Democracy - The struggle and the Dream

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Setting Sustainable Standards - We can repair the damage to the planet--if we want to

REPORT
     Maintaining the Moratorium - Increased pressure for exploration is coming from a variety of sources.

OPINION
     Should We Be Drinking Chlorine? - Chlorinated water: are short-term gains worth long-term pains?

ABOUT US


Vol.11 Number 1 - Feb /Mar 2001

EDITORIAL - Community Futures

NEWS
     Metalclad NAFTA Hearing - Democracy on Trial in Vancouver in February
     Turbid Water and Gastroenteritis
     Mad Cow Disease on Ottawa Fields - Spill Puts Unsafe Scrapie Test Tissue into Sewage and Sludge
     BC Hits Parks Target
     BC Repents Its Abuse of Water - Some training, certification, and multi-stakeholder planning committees are proposed
     A Strange Kettle of Fish - Male Chinook Turn Female in Columbia River
     Two Pesticides Combined Linked to Parkinson's
     A Magnificent Success: POPs Treaty Turns Off the Tap. The new century opens with a gift for future generations: an anti-pollution treaty based on elimination and the Precautionary Principle
     Effects of POPs on Children
     Courtenay Gets Ready To Roll 'Em

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
     What Does Clean Really Mean?
     Things to Look For When You Buy Cleaning Products and Pesticides
     Some Simple Cleaning Tips
     The Unvarnished Truth - Removing that pesky carpeting can reveal a wood floor that's worth saving.

FUTURES
     Aquaculture Ascendant - By the end of the decade, fish farming may overtake cattle ranching as a food source.
     Free-Roaming Fish

SCIENCE
     Declaration on Climate Change - Greenhouse gas action solves several related problems

SUSTAINABLE ENERGY
     Wind Power Blows into Washington State
     Energy Futures: Turning the Wheels of Progress
     Geothermal Plant at Meager Mountain

LETTERS
     When Life Becomes One More Commodity
     Biodiversity Protection Needs Support
     Multi-Aged Forest Provides Solution

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Ecoforestry Youth Initiative

REPORT
     Land Conservators Gain Ground - Nature Conservancy and TimberWest join forces toward a common goal

SOAPBOX
     Rainforest Cowboys Saddle Up


Vol. 10 Number 6 - Dec 2000/Jan 2001

EDITORIAL - May You Live in Interesting Times

NEWS
     The Real Global Village
     Urgent Appeal To Save Wildwood
     BC Oil Moratorium Stays Until Science Gives Okay
     When the Sludge Hits the Fields, and the Water, and the Lettuce ...

ALTERNATIVE ENERGY
     Power Fit for a Digital Economy
     Whose Pipe Dream?
     ICP, Sumas, And Pollution - Just How Dirty Are These Plants?
     Natural Gas - The Upstream Downside
     Shell Invests in Wind Power

SUSTAINABLE LIVING - Diving into the Car Pool

CONSERVATION - What Happened to Power Smart?

OPINION
     Banging Heads with the Foresters
     On the Edge of the Western Sea
     Why I Hate Using Fertilizer     

FEATURE
     Cubans Revolutionize Organic Farming
     Mexican Environmentalists Threatened

ANALYSIS - ICP, Sumas, And Pollution - Just How Dirty Are These Plants?

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND - Everyone Wins at FOCI Fund Raiser

FOOTPRINT SURVEY REPORT - Our Footprint Survey Results


Vol. 10 Number 5 - Oct/Nov 2000

EDITORIAL
     Pierre Elliot Trudeau
     A Toxic Break for Mines?

FREE SPEECH VICTORY - Public servants can speak out for public interest

REPORT - Trees on Drugs - Fertilizing Forests in Urban Watersheds

OPINION
     Taking Care of the Kids
     Children's Vulnerability Recognized
     Ecotoxicity and Life Expectancy
     Pesticides in the playground - Canadian Policy Ignores Children's Exposure to Environmental Pollution
     Putting the Streams Back, One by One

NEWS BRIEFS - The High Price of Exploitation
     Tax dollars sell asbestos
     Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade Acknowledges the Environment
     NAFTA makes Mexico pay off waste dumper
     Fish Farm Waste Fuels Toxic Algae
     DFO Says Roads Wreck Fish Habitat

THE FOOTPRINT QUIZ - Measure Your Dependence on Nature

FEATURE - What's the Buzz on Beetles?

ANALYSIS - The Trail to the Money - NDP Policy, the Trees and the Greens

FEATURE - Excrement Happens - Septic System Info

ENERGY FUTURES - The Answer is Blowin' in the Wind

ENERGY FUTURES - Oil Prices Should Come as No Surprise

REPORT - The Pine River Oil Spill

OPINION - The Cost of a Job in the Mine

NEWS BRIEFS
     Government Must Rule Britannia
     Plutonium in Scrap Metal
     Antarctic Ozone Hole Bigger than Ever
     PEI Pesticides Kill Fish


Vol.10 Number 4 - Aug/Sept 2000

EDITORIAL - Mining the Taxpayer
     Oops -- Out of Space Again!

NEWS SHORTS
     Drinking Water and Logging - Fights for the Forest
     Cleaner Gas
     Sludge
     Green Party Leadership Race Starts to Heat Up
     Pesticide Free Zone in Halifax
     The Lubicon and Daishowa
     Stopping the sewage

NEWS
     Waking the Tulsequah Chief

FORESTS
     Watershed Solidarity in the Slocan
     A Small Victory Against Herbicides
     WCWC Wants Moratorium
     Taking a Stand in the Elaho
     Burns Lake Gets Forest Agreement
     Hard Time For Protesters
     Dirty Drinking Water Subsidizes BC Logging
     Affirmation from an Arrested Elaho Protester

FEATURE
     Endangered Species Deserve Better
     Just Ice?
     It's Time to Decide about Power

EXPOSE
     Walkerton Sludge: A Case in Point     

FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY
     Harvesting Rainwater for Home Use
     Sludge-Buster is a Living Machine

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     The Cortes Initiative

LETTERS
     Our Readers Respond


Vol.10 Number 3 - June/July 2000

EDITORIAL - There is Only Ourselves

NEWS
     New and Improved Access to the Archives

TIME FOR CHANGE
     Measuring Well Being
     Enemies of Mother Russia
     Tales from Mexico

NEWS FEATURE
     Timber Grab on Vancouver Island

FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY
     Baynes Sound Clean Up

FEATURE
     Awash in the Fraser River Plume

UPDATE
     Nechako Update--Still No Relief
     Local Action Faces Down Telka Coal

FOCUS ON SUSTAINABILITY
     Tire Recycling: When the Rubber Leaves the Road
     Burning Rubber at the Pulp Mill

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Maps for the Salish Sea (FOCI)

FUN AND GAMES
     Time to Play Bullshit Bingo!

OPINION
     Variable Retention on Haida Gwaii
     Blue Gold: Who Owns the Water?
     POLL - Public Opposition To WTO
     World Trade Wars

FEATURE
     The Nuts and Bolts of Land Trusts
     GM Experiment Rolls On


Vol.10 Number 2 - April/May 2000

EDITORIAL - Chocolate

NEWS
      Vietnam Vets Study: Dioxin and Diabetes
      Energy: Hot and Dirty or Clean and Cool?
      When the Market Sees the Trees Fall, The CEOs Start to Hear
      BC Greens Overthrow Leader
      Aerial Spraying for Gypsy Moth at Burnaby Lake Despite New Health Evidence
      Recent Sources on Bt

SALMON
      Who You Gonna Call?
      Excerpts of letter concerning logging practices near fish-bearing streams

FOREST NEWS
      More Harris-ment
      Central Coast: The Road Forks
      Old Growth Falls

ABOUT CERTIFICATION
      First FSC Certifications in BC
      What is the Forest Stewardship Council?

RIGHT TO KNOW
      When Lawns Turn Toxic

FUN AND GAMES
      It's a Jungle Out There

ADVERTISEMENT
      Biodiversity Publications

NEWS SHORTS
     "Dirty" Hydrogen Could Foul Fuel Cell Potential
     Arctic Not Cold Enough To Keep Ice
     Red River Chemicals Drown Lake Winnipeg
     US Organic Standards Brought Up to Mark

REPORT
     The Hidden Costs of Offshore Oil

FEATURE
     Big Pulp's Dirty Little Secret
     Dioxin: a Top POP
     Dioxin's Ill Effects

ANALYSIS
     IJC Leaves Door Open to Water Sales

FROM HAIDA GWAII
     Interview with Guujaaw - Haida Nation presents an overwhelming case for aboriginal title.

LETTERS - Our Readers Respond ...
     Hot Compost for Sustainable Sewage
     Planet Infected by the Greedy
     WS OK in Y2K
     Trail Highlights Hague Lake Greenery
     FOCI Office Extends Hours

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
     Plugging In to Clean Power
     Greenpeace Buys Shell Shares to Promote Solar Power Plans


Vol.10 Number 1 - February/March 2000

EDITORIAL -Upgrade to Renewable Energy

POEM - The Fifth Day

ANALYSIS - State of the World 2000

GENETIC ENGINEERING UPDATE
     Altered Foods Taken Off the Table
     Canada fast-tracks altered spuds
     Bt Corn Bt Soil
     Rat Research

WARMING
     Salmon Stocks Feel the Heat
     Nuu-Chah-Nulth Act for Threatened Herring
     What to do: The David Suzuki Foundation suggests the following measures to lessen use of fossil fuels
     Climates of Change Congress
     A Future for the Fishery

NEWS
     Forestry Certification Forum
     Can Whales Be Saved?
     US Plutonium Flown to Chalk River by Helicopter
     When is a Nature Centre a Mall Door?

ANALYSIS - Oil, Heat, and Our Agriculture

FEATURE
     Salmon, Bears, and the Web of Life
     Bear Management A "Disaster"
     Coastal Grizzlies Under the Gun

WATER TALKS
     There is No Such Thing As Surplus Water
     The Half Empty Cup
     Wash Water

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Forestry Mapping Makes Progress

SUSTAINABLE LIVING
     Sewage Systems: Smaller is Better
     Going Green on the Ocean Blue

FEATURE
     How We Really Shut Down the WTO
     History Made in Seattle


Vol. 9 Number 6 - December 1999/January 2000

EDITORIAL -Water Watch

POEM - December

FEATURE
     WTO: The Monster in the Closet
     A WTO Hit List
     Call for a Green Screen of WTO
     WTO Protests Unreported in US

BOOK REVIEW
     Frankenstein Foods from Canadian Farms
     Monsanto Gives Up On Terminator
     Concerned About Genetically Engineered Foods?

OPINION
     Greener Taxes are Better Taxes
     Tax Shift

LETTERS - PEI Minister Says It Ain't So

SKILLS - Spreading the Word Through PR

REACH FOR UNBLEACHED SPECIAL:
     The Pulp Pollution Primer; also, downloadable as a pdf file

NEWS
     BC Folks Will Pay Up to Clean Up Georgia Strait
     CANDU MOX Burn Nixed by US, not Us
     Big Goof: Mill Emissions Twice Permit Levels
     Polar Bears May Starve
     Film Festival Gets Set To Roll

TOXICS, INK - Does PVC Equal RIP

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Pump, Don't Dump

FEATURE ON CLEANERS
     How to Put Your Home on Detox

ANALYSIS - Decoding a Message about Oil

THE LAST WORD
     Environment Act (CEPA) Falls Short
     A closer look at toxicity tests


Vol. 9 Number 5 - October/November 1999

EDITORIAL - Requiem for The Disappeared

A SERIES OF SUMMER VICTORIES
     Home Depot Halts Sale of Old Growth Wood Products
     Global Public Rejection of Genetically Engineered Foods and Crops
     Canada Might Face NAFTA Probe Over Fish

NEWS
     False Advertising for Nukes
     Boliden Mine Still Leaking into Spanish River
     Islands Going Under
     Forecast: More Oil Spills
     A Victory for Fish
     Mice Used in Tests May Be Resistant to Impacts
     Canadian Pesticide Residues Climb
     A Victory for People
     Living Near Traffic Connected to Lung Cancer
     Over 4,200 GE Experiments in Canada
     Cascade Canyon--The Power of Nature

FEATURES
     Potato Paradise Lost
     PEI Pesticide Sales Report
     Pumping Poison
     Life On The Edge - Life is at its most abundant where land and water meet
     Pressure Treated Lumber
     Preserving Power Poles

LETTERS
     Unbleached? It goes without saying!
     Keeping it Clean While on the Road
     Plenty To Beef About In Import Tariffs

TOXICS, INK
     Sludge Happens

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Forest Plan Needs Support
     Help Wanted for FOCI Home

MAGAZINE REVIEWS - Taking the Fast Track to the Facts
     The Record
     Spruce Roots
     Auto-Free Times

OPINION
     Tax Reduction: The Political and Corporate Bonanza


Vol. 9 Number 4 - August/September 1999

EDITORIAL -The Poisoning of Canada: Call 911

NEWS
     Wind Power Joins the Grid
     Island Breezes

FROM THE FORESTS, ABOUT THE TREES
     BC Community Forests Begin to Materialize
     Falldown: Forest Policy in British Columbia
     Greenpeace to the Amazon
     Home Depot Boycott
     Vancouver Watershed Report - "Just Another Plan for Logging"

SPECIAL REPORT
     Offshore Oil and Water Dont Mix
     Maritimers oppose oil exploration

MORE NEWS
     Toxic Ship Paint Must Be Banned
     "Why Bother? Who Cares?" say experts
     Community Vows to Protect its Forests
     Logging and Resistance Continue

TOXICS, INK
     Show Me The Money
     Science For Hire

MORE NEWS
     Opponents of Clearcuts Go To Court
     Subdivision Now
     Merger Raises NAFTA Spectre

FEATURES
     Compost Thrives on the Rough Stuff
     Rafting To The Beaufort Sea

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND
     Cortes Bays Aren't Safe Yet!
     FOCI builds a new home:Help Wanted

REVIEWS
     Information Overload Can be Cured
     Everyones Backyard
     Environment Canada's S & E Bulletin
     Wana Chinook Tymoo
     Ecotouris--Panacea Or Eco-Opportunism?

FEATURES
     Dear Paul Martin: Yes, You CAN Lead Us to a Tax Shift!
     Access Open with CanExplore


Vol. 9 Number 3 - June/July 1999

     On Yugoslavia - Depleted Uranium, Depleted Morals - EDITORIAL
     "Peace" Plan Promoted War
     To Slay a Dragon: GM Foods
     Greenhouse Gases Can be Reduced
     SPEC Presents 11-Point Plan For Climate Change
     Trade Off On the Peoples' Lands
     Cheviot Mine Permit Struck Down
     Future Generations Will Go to Court

TOXICS, INK
     Let Them Eat Plastic
     Chemical Leaches
     Accidental Discovery
     Where's The Beef?

     Alcan Feeds While Nechako Chokes
     The Heart of Turtle Island
     Put the Pests to Rest-Without Toxics
     Streams retain pesticides
     Nukes in Canada's Heartland
     "Problem" reactors shut down-but only temporarily
     Nukes & Rad Waste from Sea to Sea
     Tests Crack Coral
     Quisling Governments
     Our Readers Write

FRIENDS OF CORTES ISLAND SECTION
     The Evolution of Ecoforestry
     Markets Lined Up for First Eco-Certified Forest in BC
     North Island MacBlo Gets CSA Nod
     LIFEship 2000
     Death Sentence for Greenwich Park


Vol. 9 Number 2 - April/May 1999

Defenders of the Good Earth - EDITORIAL
Tobin Tax Motion Passes in Ottawa!
Exxon Valdez Memorial Moratorium For A Clean Energy Future

HAVE YOU HEARD?
     CANDU? Maybe not ...
     Wells face shortages
     Basking Sharks Pay the Price
     Harnessing the Wind
     Ottawa to study toxins
     Experts oppose modified maize
MacBlo Gains in Land Grab
Park Area Threatened by Gravel Pit Plan
NEWS FROM THE BC FOREST FRONT
     MoF "Rationalization" on Sunshine Coast
     Workers sue MoF
     FSC Standards for BC
     Protest hits Home Depot
Democracy Discovered in Sludge Dump
GLOBAL WARMING
     Soil Tested as Carbon-Catcher
     Greenland ice melting
     Methane on the menu
     Cool trend ends
     Head for the hills!
Chemicals Contribute to Salmon Crisis
For Vietnam, the War is Still at Home
Back in the USA, Ranch Hand Study Skewed
Reflections on a Decade of Activism
TOXICS, INK
     Name The Real Pests
     Do You Know What You're Eating?
     Alar(m) raised again
     Wheat are we protecting?
     Rain, Rain Go Away
     Going for a Song
Stikine - The Great River
Train Dreaming
Gov't Gives CanFor a Cut of Cortes
Low Tech Self Help in Guatemala
Island Victory in Sewage Appeal
Removing the Barriers One by One


Vol. 9 Number 1 - February/March 1999

EDITORIAL
Thanks, Subscribers - Some good news for this magazine and our readers
River Of Words Contest

NEWS FROM THE CLEARCUT FRONTS
     Beehive Burners Keep On Burning
     N American Corps Say "No" to Old Growth Products
     Russian Mill Swears Off Old Growth
     Clayoquot Chop for Eco-Sale
     Kootenay Eco-Logging
     After the Mud Slides, Avalanches in the Slocan Valley
Juice Box Makers Stall Product Stewardship
Burns Bog: Politicians Test the Winds and Turn Tail
Will the Salmon Come Home?
Fish Habitat Plan Full of Loopholes
Bering Sea Changes Threaten Groundfish
Focus On Pine Falls: Power And Politics Along The Winnipeg River
Ontario Parks Threatened by Land Plan

NEWS ON NUKES
     Germany Proceeds with Nuke Phase-out
     Nuclear Seepage Found
     Largest-Ever Damages
     Tumbleweed Troubles
     Hot Ants Exterminated
     "Hundreds" With Illnesses
Labour of Love for Somenos Marsh
Georgia Strait Abundance - From the Brim to the Dregs
Stream Repairs To Bring the Salmon Home
Time To Re-evaluate LC50s?
Something Fishy About Nonylphenols
Toxics, Ink - Good News/Bad News
Protecting the Great Blue Herons

NEWS SHORTS
     BST Down But Not Yet Out
     Workers Remove Toxic Truck Parts
     Fish Farmers On the Dole Again
     Harnessing the Wind
     Ottawa Initiates $40 Million Toxic Study
     Ottawa Backs Off On Burning Warheads
There Goes the Weather - Global Warming, Ice Ages And Ozone Holes
Report from Nairobi on POPs


Vol. 8 Number 6 - December 1998/January 1999

EDITORIAL - Corporate Milking
MB Drops Out of Greenwash Group
Government Says "Trash Toxic Toys"
Washington State to Eliminate Persistent Pollutants
Union Environment Recycling to Protect Salmon
1st Vote on Democracy and Corporations
CPR! To the Rescue!
BC Still Green, New Poll Shows
Green Party Ties NDP
Swan Hills Fined for Toxic Releases
Antarctic Ozone Depletion Sets New Size Record
Quarantine or Spray in Gypsy Blackmail
The Right To Mine
Learning How to Fish Selectively
Dear Watershed Sentinel
MB's Crocodile Tears
Of the MIA and MIA
Poplar Plantations Are Bad News for Bears
Greens Demand Herring Closure
Tax-For Double Dividends
Does Your Shampoo APE Hormones?
Agent Orange to Terminator Seeds
Rural Traditions - Seed for the Future
Some Thoughts on Saving Seeds
Land Claims Milestones
The Nisga'a Treaty - An Analysis By David Boyd
Coffee Thrives Under Canopy of Trees
Become a Watershed Sentinel Sustaining Subscriber


Vol. 8 Number 4 & 5 - August/November 1998

Editorial - Hope & Despair
Victory on Tordon at the Environmental Appeal Board
Nike PVC Phase-Out
NGOs Unite for Atlantic Salmon
Massive Illegal Driftnets in Mediterranean
Nuclear Legacy
Penile Defect Rises for US Baby Boys
BC Waste Management Act Appeal Process Revised
A Clean Future Moves Closer
Polar Bears Undergo Man-made Sex Change
Coho Closure in Troubled Waters
Species at Risk of Extinction
"Significant" Numbers Of Coho Killed
Coho Plan Called Failure
     Many Praise Closure
     Nafta Investigation
     The DFO's Plan for Coho Recovery
     UFAWU Courts Minister
     Fisheries Act Not Enforced
     Langley Fish Deaths Number In Thousands
     Salmon In The City
     Fish Face Hotter Water
     Fraser River Sockeye - Historic Data Plus 1998 Projections
     Aquaculturists Want End To Moratorium
     Scots Say Farmed Salmon Threaten Trout
     Fraser River Water Too Hot For Sockeye
Only Closed Loop Fish Farms for BC
Fish Farms Hit Bottom in New Brunswick
Studies Focus on Greenhouse Gases
Decline in Marine Life
Klein In Denial
Power Comes on the Wind
Toxics, Ink
Meltdown in Antarctica
Aussies Protect Frogs from Glyphosates
Pesticides Place PEI Potatoes in Peril
Bats Make the Best Neighbours
Challenge at Crofton
Eagles Pay a High Price
The Perils of Gene Splicing
No Labels (Yet) For Altered Food
Strange Genes Alter Ingredients
Inventing a Better System
Miners Strike it Rich With NDP
The Changing Face of Forestry
Island Journey
On Working with MB
Forest Practices in Clayoquot Sound
Seven Recommendations From Friends Of Clayoquot Sound
Nuu-chah-nulth Face the Future
Can Wildlife and Logging Co-exist?
Sewage Appeal On Track
Twin Islands Sold to Anonymous Purchaser
Helping Heal the Land
Ideas for Free at EarthFEST '98
The Vampire Child Comes Home
Free Trade Springs a Leak
Canada in Conflict, Past and Present
Pesticides Place Children at Risk
Chemical Cocktails Th2eaten Pets
Car Taxes: Speed Up, or Slow Down?
Money Talks In Science Research


Vol. 8 Number 3 - June/July 1998

Editorial
MB Thinks Again About Clearcutting
US Organic Standards Salvaged
Lubicon and Other Consumer Boycotts Legal
Cancer Up or Down? Studies Differ
Tragedy for Many - Toxic in Bleached Flour Gives ALS
Fish Farm Disease
Counting Dead Fish
Slow Growth for Banff
Antarctic Ice Shelf Breaking Up
Kemano Kemano Kemano - Cheslatta Take Alcan and Government to Court
The Slocan - A Watershed Case
Sunshine Coast Voters Reject MoF Watershed Control
Satellite Images Bear Witness to Interfor's Destruction
Journal of A Rain Forest Protector
West Coast Offshore Oil - The Money and the Moratorium
Electricity: the Guiding Force - Part 2 of 3
Something New Under the Sun How the Net killed the MAI
Trouble in 2000
Send a Message to Junk-mailers: STOP!
Projected Demand for Fibre
Watching Birds Across Canada
Scotch Broom
Environmental Link to Breast Cancer
Tooth Plastic Stunts Male Sexual Growth
Biological Controls Not Harmless
Boycott Could Revive Spraying
Forest Code "Part of a Master Plan"
BC Government Flunks in Forestry
Never too late to say you care!


Vol. 8 Number 2 - April/May 1998

Editorial - MAI: They'll be back. So will we.
Saving Homes for Great Blue Herons
Product Stewardship
Calgary goes IPM
Hot Pigeons
Feds Make Dry Cleaners Clean Up
Kids Not Safe from Insecticide Chlorpyrifos</ >
Councils Fight Herbicide Spray on CPR Tracks
Civil Rights Trumps Emissions Trading
BC Forest Practices Code Gutted
Heritage Chickens
Watershed Referendum
Green Truce?
Sperm Counts Drop
Smart Count Goes Up
Who To Leave Out
Coho Survival Still Threatened
Wild Salmon Rescue
First Nations Defend Herring Futures
A "Win-Win" Strategy for Auto Use
Stopping the Slug Stampede
Gas Plant vs. The People
Workplace Roulette - New research identifies carcinogens in the workplace.
Cancer Linked to PVC
The Real Costs of sing Cars - parking, real estate, and accident risk
But are cars the worst culprits?
Global Warming Where You Live
One Earth, One Life
Leadership Initiative For Earth (LIFE)
A "Last Chance" Forestry Meeting
Hague Lake Park on Cortes Island
Building the StoneHemp Wall
Industrial Hemp Legal in Canada
The Ice Storm
Subs better than Subsidy
West Coast Welcome
In Cougar Country
News from the World of Hemp
National Anti-SLAPP Campaign
Gender Benders Launch
Calendar


Vol. 8 Number 1 - February/March 1998

Editorial - "Dad, How Big Is A Tennis Ball?"
And Now the Weather
Kyoto May Be a Turning Point
Taking It Easy on the Fraser
Historic Antarctic Protedtion Becomes Law
Smooth Moves
It's About Our Kids' Health
Ontario Hits Sour Note On Harmonization
Hanford Radiation Hits Groundwater
Banana Workers Finally Get Cash
US Companies Promise To Buy Green
California Redwood Permit
Government Burns Citizens on Beehive Burners
Children and Asthma: Risk Greatest From Smallest Particles
Aluminum: What's The Cost?
Vancouver Island Land Use Plan
Container Law Breaks Cabinet Bottleneck
Feds Win Environment Power in Court
Fuel Cell Contracts
A Kettle of Fish
Kids' Health and Toxic Chemicals
Twin Islands Protest
Purcell Mountain Caribou
Quality Fishing For Skeena Sockeye
Opponents Attack APEC Agenda
Jobs: The Dark and Cruel Theatre
The Watershed Sentinel has lost its postal subsidy
Calendar


Vol. 7 Number 6 - Dec 1997/Jan 1998

Editorial
Referendum on Pickering's Nukes
An End to Chlordane and Heptachlor
Honeybees & Genetically Engineered Canola
Toxic Toys - Follow Up On Greenpeace Findings
Tests Confirm High Lead Levels in Toys
Perry Ridge Injunction Overturned
Ethyl Wields NAFTA Club
Earth First! Tries The FBI
Global Warming: Signs Of Change
Signs of Change: The Heat is On
Great Lakes Losing Water
The Canadian North Feels the Heat
Oil Patch Subsidies Can Change Climate
     Canadians Call for Action
Herring Alliance Wants Commercial Roe Herring Fishery Out of Georgia Strait
Compound in Diesel Exhaust May Cause
San Francisco Cuts Pesticide Use
Children of Nuclear Workers Get More Cancer
Liver Damage from HCFCs
Multinationals - Their Rise And Fall
Water Wise Filters
Lindane, An Unnecessary Poison

Roundup:
     Glyphosate: What is it? What does it do?
     The Problems With Roundup
     Does Roundup Damage Non-Target Species?
     Annotated Bibliography of Glyphosate Damage
     Roundup-Ready Cotton Fails
20 Minutes a Month to Save the World
Greenpeace Cutbacks
Friends of Cortes Island AGM Report
Life Boat for Youth
Hope for Home, Giving the Land a Voice, Mapping our Home Places
The Ballenas/Winchelsea Archipelago
Why BC Forestry Must Change
No Nukes is Good Nukes
Explosion at Hanford


Vol. 7 Number 5 - Oct/Nov 1997

EDITORIAL - An Enemy in Need
Greece Starts Solar Age
Feds Scrap Herbal Regs
New Test For Chemicals
Cheap New Energy
Don't Worry, Make Money
Antarctic Ice Shrinking
Ozone Pact
Household Smog
Fish Farm Alliance
Toxic Toys - Greenpeace Finds Hazardous Chemicals In Vinyl Children's Toys
Government and Broken Promises
Community Control of Forests
Scorched Earth Costs Jobs
Surprise Search Reveals Risks
Nechako Deja Vu - No More Water for the River
DNA-Snippers Create New Critters
OOPS! Canola Seed Recalled
Cancer Trends - Bleak Picture
Hitch Hiking Birds
Microwaves Cooking the Planet
Cell Phone Hazards
Tenure, Common Ground, and Democracy
Vancouver Island's Forests At The Crossroads
Putting the Rights of Money Above the Laws of Nation
Fish Farms Get Cautious Pass
Baikal Seals Point to Pollution


Vol. 7 Number 4 - Aug/Sept 1997

EcoGarden Victory
Water and Jobs in the Slocan Valley
Denman Forest - Sold To Gabriola Logger
Gulf Bio-War Bills Come Due
French Troops Escaped Toxic Effects
Reward For Diseased Farmed Salmon
A Victory For Whales In A Worrying World
French Greens' Success
Environment And Health!
Dutch Green Growth
Fish Scientists Speak Out
Creel Survey: Non-detect On Coho
Starting Fires In Hell - by Professor Michael D. Wallace
     Why CANDU Can't Do Plutonium Burn-Up
Greenpeace Radiation Leakage Data Confirmed
Fishing, Yachting Banned
Hydro Admits Dumping
Dodging the Disruptors
Hormone Disruptors in Household Soap
A Victory For Fish On The Iskut And Stikine
Fall 1997 Conferences
Eco-Tourism
Paint Info
Hot, Eh? - Environment Canada Reports
Clearcutting Wildlife
The Effect Of Clearcutting On Our Local Water Courses
Enviro-Laws Being Ignored
PCB Import Rule Struck Down
A New Look at Ecoforestry
MAI is NAFTA on Steroids
European Beef Ban Illegal


Vol. 7 Number 3 - June/July 1997

Green Computers
Canadian Pulp Fiction
Clark Responds to Greenpeace
Plutonium Imports
Hot Water
North Korea To Take Waste
Remembering Chernobyl
Weeding Out the Chemicals
Taking Stock of Salmon
The Fishery


Vol. 7 Number 2 - April/May 1997

BC Streams Trashed
Protecting the Headwaters
The Destruction of our Streams
Caucus Issues: A Challenge to the Forest Industry
Bears... or Boutiques? At Jumbo Glacier
Victory for Human Health: Sulphur Dioxide Prededent
Between Loss and Disaster - Old Growth
Blowdown at Cathedral Grove
BC's Blue Herons at Risk
Why Care About the Marbled Murrelet?
Trees For Life
Tally Ho! Let the Machines Do the Fetching
Oiled Birds
Dying For Fries on PEI
Spending Billions to Destroy the Future


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