A Little Fish on the Prairie
by Steve Thomson
At the beginning of the month, I received an invitation from Kristen Thompson of Norfolk's Alternative Land Use Services (ALUS) to join them in celebrating their second season of planting here in Norfolk. The invitation was to spend a day out visiting some demonstration farms and take in lunch at another one of our favourite customers, Florence Estate Winery.
It was an amazing turnout of 40 to 50 people getting a first hand look at some of the demonstration farms in the area. We saw first hand the revitalization of farm land to oak savanna and prairie grass land on a number of farms.
Our interest in ALUS is more than just passing interest. Picasso Fish was proud to be the first business to partner with ALUS to purchase the Carbon Capture Credit. Our purchase contributed to a few acres of prairie grass being planted in marginal farm land. Even though we are an environmentally sensitive company, (we don't have a photocopier or fax machine to produce paper waste amongst other initiatives), we still recognize that Picasso Fish creates a carbon footprint.
There are many ways for businesses, big and small to help reduce their footprint. One way is to purchase carbon credits. These credits come in many different forms. There is even a carbon credit exchange where you can buy a credit and have trees planted in South America or Africa. Those can be good but they have less of an impact on our local lives and local environment. The best part is that the ALUS program isn't just limited to businesses buying these credit. Families and individuals can purchase them too and reduce their household carbon footprint and have a positive impact on the environment in their own area.
What really interested us in the ALUS program was that this program has many spin-off benefits to us as a community. Yes, they all capture and sequester carbon, but with the ALUS program, it returns unproductive areas of a farm back into its natural state. It cleans our water system with river and creek buffer zones. It naturally brings back wildlife to habitats which have been eroding for generations. It improves the health of our community.
Picasso Fish is proud to be a partner with the ALUS group and encourage others to investigate this program.
To Learn more visit the ALUS Website or Tillsonburg News.
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JUGSWO!
Joomla! Users Group of Southern Ontario
INAUGURAL MEETING AT THE PERSONALCOMPUTER MUSEUM
13 Alma St. Brantford
7-10PM, THURSDAY OCTOBER 8, 2009
Are you searching for the best tool for building your website? Have you chosen Joomla! and want learn more about it from experts and other users? Want to meet people that share you interest in Joomla!? Join us for the inaugural meeting of the South Western Ontario Joomla! Users Group!
• Watch a brief introduction to Joomla!. See how easy it is to use this powerful tool to build websites.
• Learn the pros and cons of Joomla! from a professional web programmer that has worked on hundreds of websites.
• Listen as the publisher of twenty on-line magazines relates her experiences with Joomla!.
• See results from research project about how many websites are built with different versions of Joomla!, what components and modules they use and where where in the world they are located.
• Ask a panel of Joomla! experts your website questions.
• Meet and network with people interested in Joomla! and building websites.
• Guided tour led by the curator of the Personal Computer Museum.
• Hands on playtime with historically significant personal computers from: Apple, Atari, Amiga, Commodore, Radio Shack, IMSAI, IBM, Next, Mattel, Timex, Xerox, Coleco, Dell etc.
SPEAKERS:
Joe Sonne (aka JoeJoomla)
Greg Caughill
Picasso Fish
Stacy Bradshaw
Annex Publishing & Printing
Corrie Sloot
Picasso Fish
Syd Bolton
Personal Computer Museum
Space limited. To reserve your complimentary spot now or for more information, please call 519-426-8981
If you can't wait and want to learn more about Joomla! or the Personal Computer Museum, visit www.joomla.org and www.pcmuseum.ca.
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