Environment

The Bullfrog Powered Green Directory
http://www.bullfrogpower.com/powered/directory.cfm

Support and respect organizations taking action by greening their operations. The bullfrogpowered Green Directory to enables you to locate organizations in Ontario, Alberta and B.C. taking a stand for 100 per percent low-impact renewable electricity.

In our online directory, you can search for organizations, products and services by key word, business type and location—you can even find businesses right in your own community by using our postal code search.

Farm Finder
http://ontario.farmvisit.com/

Let's you search by farming practice, location, and food type.

Food Inc. (the movie) Toronto Panel
http://mpd2.netro.ca/foodinc/panel.html

Greening Your Market: how to incorporate and support recycling, composting, and other environmental efforts at your market.
http://www.pps.org/markets/info/public_market_conference/pmc_workshops

Click on "Download the Podcast" for the session you want to listen to. (No iPod required)

"In Transition" (the movie)
http://transitionculture.org

The direct link to the movie is: http://breadcrumb.tv/~admin/streaming/intransition.html

Seas The Day - Taking Ocean Conservation Personally
http://www.theoceanproject.org/action/2009july.php#threes

When making seafood decisions there are key things to know when trying to eat sustainably. The species of fish, where it comes from, and how it was caught or farmed all play a role in how the product got from the water to your plate.

Health & Nutrition

Health Canada - Pesticide Product Information Database
http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/cps-spc/pest/protect-proteger/publi-regist/index-eng.php

ON Organic Newsletter
http://www.omafra.gov.on.ca/english/crops/organic/news/news-organic.html

Pesticide Action Network's - Pesticide Database
http://www.pesticideinfo.org/

What's on my Food?
http://whatsinmyfood.org

Beyond Factory Farming website - "Turkey wars" article and resource site on various issues (e.g. economics, environment, health, safety, labour)                                                                                                                                             http://www.beyondfactoryfarming.org

Social

Fast Food Zoning
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/content/jun2009/db20090630_606062_page_2.htm

It's sweeping the USA. Let's bring it here!

Economic

What are other communities doing to support local food?

City of Vancouver, B.C.
http://vancouver.ca/sustainability/building_food.htm
http://www.bitsandbytes.ca/resources/Creating_justsustainable_food_system_in_Vancouver.pdf

Vancouver is a forward-thinking city in the areas of sustainable food initiatives. In 2007, the city adopted the Vancouver Food Charter and have various initiatives which include farmers markets, community food gardens, grow a row/share a row, and neighbourhood backyard garden programmes.

City of Kamloops, B.C.

Kamloops Farmers’ Market
http://www.kamloopsfarmersmarket.com

Kamloops has been involved in supporting locally grown food in various ways which include assisting groups such as the Kamloops Food Policy Council, facilitating the farmers’ markets, and providing areas for community gardens.
http://64.114.94.71/foodsupplies.htm

City of Regina, Saskatchewan

Regina Farmers’ Market
http://www.reginadowntown.ca/siteimages/Media%20Advisory%20-%20Regina%20Farmers'%20Market%20Expands.pdf

Regina is supporting the downtown farmers’ market which was expanded to two blocks in 2008.
http://www.reginafarmersmarket.ca/media_release_may_3_08.pdf

City of Winnipeg, Manitoba

Le Marché St. Norbert Farmers' Market
http://www.stnorbertfarmersmarket.ca/index.html

Includes a Grow-a-row initiative.

City of Halifax, Nova Scotia

Halifax Farmers’ Market
http://www.halifaxfarmersmarket.com

This is one North America’s oldest consecutively run farmers’ markets which will be become the Seaport Halifax Farmers’ Market with strong government support, particularly at the provincial level