DOWNLOADS & LINKS




Visit Green Science to learn more about how you can: Reduce your weekly waste volume; your carbon footprint; your greenhouse gasses;
your amount of waste going to landfill; your emissions caused by transporting
your waste - BY 90%!


CSRplus VERMICAST INDUSTRIES INC.
Two page overview of our company, its mission, vision and vermicasting services.



VERMICAST TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (VTL) - Design-Build-Operate Solutions
A one-page overview of the VTL subsidiary's Design-Build-Operate solutions for managing
organic waste.


SOIL CONTROL LAB WORM CASTINGS ANALYSIS
Sample of the in-depth analysis conducted on CSRplus castings by Soil Control Labs.


BUILDING SOILS FOR BETTER CROPS
"Building Soils for Better Crops" unlocks the secret of maintaining a diverse ecosystem
below ground to foster healthy crops above.


SOIL DEGRADATION
IFPRI's 2020 Vision Brief No. 58: Soil Degradation: A Threat to Developing-Country Food
Security by 2020? by Sara J. Scherr. There is growing concern in some quarters that a
decline in long-term soil productivity is already seriously limiting food production in the
developing world, and that the problem is getting worse.


HOW CANADA HAS MISUSED ITS ENVIRONMENTAL ENDOWMENT
There is a growing realization that for Canadian agriculture it can no longer be business as
usual. If the industry is to compete in world markets and satisfy environmental
concerns, modest accommodations will not be enough. - Science Council of Canada (1992)


CONSTRAINTS ON THE EXPANSION OF THE GLOBAL FOOD SUPPLY
Serious degradation and loss of the world's arable land is taking place and expansion of
irrigation, vital for food production, is becoming more costly and difficult. A business-as-usual
scenario points to looming shortages of food. The paper identifies the nature of the changes
that are required to make sufficient food available.


WHY URBAN AGRICULTURE?
Notes for the IDRC Development Forum on Cities Feeding People: A Growth Industry;
Vancouver, BC, 20 May, 1997