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A new phase of a project evaluating best practices to lower greenhouse emissions is being launched by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) in collaboration with York University.



Please send any briefs, reports or submissions concerning the posts and the environment which may have been produced by your unions or which you think may be relevant to this project to gbickerton@cupw-sttp.org.



The project CUPW is involved with is entitled Work in a Warming World: www.workinawarmingworld.yorku.ca. It has already produced an excellent data base with a large section on postal services and the environment. For this you can go directly to :

http://refworks.scholarsportal.info/refshare/?site=010221091228630000/190-94-3NKCK71600614/230331252629520000

Type “postal” in the search section on the top right hand of the webpage.



An article entitled Climate Change and Work and Employment in the Canadian Postal and Courier Sector has also been produced and can be found on page 108 of the document located at:

http://warming.apps01.yorku.ca/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/What-do-we-know-full-report-final.pdf