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PRESS RELEASE please circulate widely >Contact: Mother Tessa Bielecki >(Available by phone, 8 am-12 noon MDT, Saturday, 7 October) >Nada Hermitage >PO Box 219 >Crestone, CO 81131 USA >Phone: 719-256-4778 >Fax: 719-256-4719 >For release Saturday, 7 October, 2000 >Decoding Pulp Fiction >Monks Announce Second Annual Ecoforestry Award >The second annual Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award, announced today by the monks >of Nova Nada, is split between the Sierra Club of Canada and the Nova Scotia >Public Interest Research Group in recognition of their efforts to save the >forests of Nova Scotia. >Elizabeth May, executive director of the Sierra Club of Canada exposed "the >crisis in Canada's forests" in her exhaustively researched and controversial >book entitled AT THE CUTTING EDGE. Sierra protests the degradation of our >forests by the industrialized logging of companies such as J.D. Irving, Ltd. >of St. John, New Brunswick. With the assistance of Ms. Rita Morbia and Mr. >Charlie Restino, recipient of the first Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award, Sierra >also continues to appeal the "green certification" of Irving's forestry >practices in both Canada and the United States. >The Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group (NSPIRG) is honoured for the >Spring 2000 issue (volume VIII) of their free publication, "Clearcutting in >Perspective," edited by Linda Pannozzo and Dave Caulfield. "Clearcutting in >Perspective" considers creative alternatives to clearcutting in Nova Scotia >and exposes the effects of industrialized logging on unemployment, the >environment, and the relationship between public and private lands. NSPIRG >deftly decodes the "pulp fiction" doublespeak of J.D. Irving Ltd.'s >advertising campaign against Nova Nada's request for a two-mile no-cut >silent buffer zone. For this, the monks are especially grateful. >The monks established the Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award after losing their >Nova Scotia monastery in 1998 because of Irving's noisy logging operations. >The monastery, also a retreat centre and haven for thousands of guests from >around the world, was founded in 1972 and remained undisturbed for almost 25 >years, deep in the woods of North Kemptville. >In 1996, without warning, J.D. Irving Ltd. moved in heavy equipment and >began logging 24 hours a day, resulting in what the monks called "torture by >feller-bunchers." >After a 3-year struggle, the monks failed to secure the 2-mile no-cut buffer >zone essential for their survival and were forced to close Nova Nada, which >is currently up for sale. >The Nova Nada Ecoforestry Award remembers this unnecessary tragedy caused by >corporate greed and honours those who labour heroically for the health and >preservation of our forests. >Each October, in honour of St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of ecology, >the Spiritual Life Institute announces this award. The monks thereby >continue their commitment to help find creative solutions to the threats of >unemployment and environmental destruction, two issues which are >inextricably linked. >For further information, contact: >Charlie Restino: (902) 295-3053 >Elizabeth May, Sierra Club of Canada: (613) 241-4611 >Nova Scotia Public Interest Research Group: (902) 494-6662 >Copies of Clearcutting in Perspective are available from: >NSPIRG >6136 University Ave. >Dalhousie University >Room 314, Student Union Building >Halifax, NS B3H 4J2 > nspirg nova scotia public interest research group 6136 university ave halifax, ns b3h 4j2 902-494-6662 nspirg@is2.dal.ca executive director : linda pannozzo -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- The preceding message was posted on Sustainable Maritimes (sust-mar) -*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*- Looking for an old message? You'll find it in the sust-mar ARCHIVES ... http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/lists/sust-mar
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