Media firm, tree group team up for 're-greening'

Earlier this month Sun Media Corporation, Canoe.ca,both leading Canadian media companies (The Examiner is a member of the Sun Media group) joined with a non-profit group, Trees Ontario, the largest non-profit tree planting partnership in North America.

Trees Ontario is committed to the "re-greening" of Ontario by planting trees.

What's this have to do with Peterborough and area? The Examiner is part of Sun Media; Peterborough is in Ontario; and you can take advantage of this partnership.

Our partnership helps you get trees planted all over

Ontario including this area.

"Trees are vitally important to our environment and this partnership will help us make a difference in all the locations in Ontario where Sun Media newspapers are helping to connect and build better communities," said Michael Sifton, President and CEO of Sun Media Corporation. "Our partnership with Trees Ontario is one of the ways in which we can make people aware of this important work and encourage them to get involved."

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The painting is by Laura Tasheiko

Egypt Turns Desert Into Farmland

Abu Minqar in Egypt is one of the extreme examples of the country's plan to ''green'' its deserts and transform the barren areas that consume most of the landscape into productive farms and fields.

Though the policy has been going for decades, it is now achieving large-scale success.

Close to the Libyan border, Abu Minqar is far more remote than majority of desert farmland in Egypt. Its existence is proof that Egypt can set up farms anywhere.

"There is no desert left at all," said Mohsen Nawara, manager of South Tahrir Station, a research farm founded by the Desert Development Center (DDC) of the American University in Cairo. "It's all green now."

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