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Photo: R. Arssenault. Woodland Caribou in conflict with Industry in Alberta's Boreal.
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 Sage Newsletter for March 2015 is here!

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SAGE opposes the proposed development of Residential Housing on unstable coulee lands in Tudor Estates.

Instead, sage supports retaining these lands in public ownership and redesignating them as River Valley or Park & Recreation.

Read more @ Letters to Government.


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The JUSTICE, PEACE & SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE OF
MCKILLOP UNITED CHURCH will present

2015 LENTEN SERIES

Thursdays February 26 to MARCH 26th
at McKillop United Church, 2329 - 15th Ave. S.

More information @ Lethbridge and Area Events

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Wildlife in the Wind Speaker Series Presents:


What can you do to help Reduce Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions?

Rachelle Haddock




Tuesday 3 March 2015
12:00 – 1:00 pm

Lethbridge Public Library, Theatre Room

Free & Everyone is Welcome!

More information @ Lethbridge and Area Events

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MORE THAN HONEY

Over the past 15 years, numerous colonies of bees have been decimated throughout the world, but the causes of this disaster remain unknown. Depending on the world region, 50% to 90% of all local bees have disappeared, and this epidemic is still spreading from beehive to beehive – all over the planet. Everywhere, the same scenario is repeated: billions of bees leave their hives, never to return. No bodies are found in the immediate surroundings, and no visible predators can be located.

Scientists have found a name for the phenomenon that matches its scale, “colony collapse disorder,” and they have good reason to be worried: 80% of plant species require bees to be pollinated. Without bees, there is no pollinization, and fruits and vegetables could disappear from the face of the Earth. Apis mellifera (the honey bee), which appeared on Earth 60 million years before man and is as indispensable to the economy as it is to man’s survival.

Fifty years ago, Einstein had already insisted on the symbiotic relationship binding these pollen gatherers to mankind: “If bees were to disappear from the globe,” he predicted, “mankind would only have four years left to live.”

 Watch the trailer on the sage AGRICULTURE page.

Go to the Official Web Site.

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The Milk River Ridge is under threat from Oil and Gas Exploration.

 Animals like pronghorns, water birds, fescue grasslands and wetlands are

potentially threatened in the Milk River Ridge.

 

Read our letter to the Alberta Minister of Energy @ Milk River Ridge (halfway down page)

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 The last Annual General Meeting was held:

21 May 2014
 
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SAGE is A Leading Voice for a
Healthy and Environmentally Sustainable Community

Profile

The Southern Alberta Group for Environment (SAGE) was established in 1984 by a small group of citizens in the greater Lethbridge community concerned about the state of the environment. Founding members identified the need for an organization which, through collective action, would work to protect and restore the health of our environment – water, air, and land – in southern Alberta. In 2014, the goals of SAGE are similar to those over twenty years earlier. SAGE is a leading voice for a healthy and environmentally sustainable community through informing citizens, participating in public processes and supporting sound environmental initiatives and actions.

 
To stay informed SAGE members scan media, network with others in the community through their work and volunteer activities, and seek out information on key current issues. A newsletter is produced and mailed monthly to members and leaders in the community. SAGE holds monthly meetings, organizes public programs, prepares displays for special events, and responds to requests for presentations or information by educators and other community organizers. 
 
SAGE has engaged in numerous advocacy efforts directed towards recycling, improved solid waste management, protected areas, biodiversity conservation, renewable energy, reducing greenhouse gas emissions, pesticides reduction, addressing environmental effects of intensive livestock operations and environmental sustainability in urban planning. Members sit on advisory committees to governments, research and write briefs or opinion pieces, and engage in regulatory and appeal processes.
 
Water and watershed management has been a steady focus for SAGE. In the 1980s the environmental effects of a proposed dam on the Oldman River was a key issue as were protecting urban river valley parks and river valley clean-up. In the 1990s, focus shifted to revising provincial water law and policy and improving water quality in the Oldman River and its tributaries. Since 1998 SAGE members have been active participants in multi-stakeholder efforts to improve water management in southern Alberta, including the work of the Oldman River Basin Advisory Committee, the Oldman River Basin Water Quality Initiative and the Oldman Watershed Council established in 2004.