The report assesses whether progress towards sustainability has been made since the release of the 2001 GPI Forest Accounts for Nova Scotia in key areas.
How cities and towns are developed and planned directly affects our ability to be physically active – and Nova Scotia’s economy – according to a new report released today by the Heart and Stroke Foundation of Nova Scotia entitled, The Cost of Physical Inactivity in Halifax Regional Municipality.
Nova Scotia’s leading edge solid waste management system saves at least $31 million a year – or $33 for every Nova Scotian – compared to the old landfill system, according to a new study released today.
Monday, April 26, 2004, Burnside Industrial Park, Nova Scotia
Although Nova Scotians live as long as most Canadians, they become sick from chronic diseases earlier. The result is $1.24 billion in direct medical costs and $1.79 billion in lost productivity each year.
Changes in Nova Scotia’s farming practices – including an increase in livestock - could create millions of dollars in gains for the province and improve soil, according to an extensive independent report released today.
In February, 2000, former Finance Minister Paul Martin gave $9 million to Environment Canada and the National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy (NRTEE) to develop indicators of environmentally sustainable development.
Two hundred years of clearcutting and removing the best trees have severely degraded the economic value of Nova Scotia’s forests, according to a massive independent study released today.
Two hundred years of clearcutting and removing the best trees have severely degraded the economic value of Nova Scotia’s forests, according to a massive independent study released today.
October 12, 2001, NS Health Department, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Two hundred years of clearcutting and removing the best trees have severely degraded the economic value of Nova Scotia’s forests, according to a massive independent study released today.
According to a new study, Canada's sick, elderly, disabled, children, and other vulnerable groups are receiving 4.7% less services from volunteer groups than they did in 1987. This loss is worth $1.83 billion a year. In Nova Scotia, which enjoys a higher level of volunteer activity than the national average, the decline has been 7.2%, costing the province $60million a year in lost services.
Although women have doubled their rate of participation in the paid labour force in the last four decades, they still do twice as much unpaid household work as men, a ratio that has hardly changed since 1961.
Measuring the value of unpaid housework and child care is key to meeting the Canadian Parliament's goal of ending child poverty in Canada by the year 2000, according to a new study by GPIAtlantic.
What are the three largest sectors of the Nova Scotia economy? If you are hesitating, here is a clue: None of them are measured by the Gross Domestic Product, our single most important reference point for economic growth and progress. ¶ The largest sector is food services within the household economy, the second is unpaid house cleaning and laundry, and the third is servicing household production through shopping for goods and services, each dwarfing their market equivalents.
