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David Suzuki: Healthy kids need time in nature

| March 14, 2013
David Suzuki: Healthy kids need time in nature

We need a national strategy to get our kids eating healthy foods and being active in nature.

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Celebrating youth environmental action

| January 26, 2013 | 0 Comments
Celebrating youth environmental action

The Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program offers 20 scholarships worth $5,000 each to reward graduating high schools students for environmental excellence.

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NFB webdoc BEAR 71 named 2012 FWA Site of the Year

| January 17, 2013
NFB webdoc BEAR 71 named 2012 FWA Site of the Year

The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) interactive documentary Bear 71 has received one of the Web’s highest honours: the Favourite Website Awards (FWA) Site of the Year.

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mApples: Mapping the neighbourhood for fresh food

| November 17, 2012
mApples: Mapping the neighbourhood for fresh food

As part of its Greenest City initiative, Vancouver is striving to increase city and neighbourhood food assets by a minimum of 50 percent by 2020.

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Earth Matters: Environmental Education Conference

| November 17, 2012
Earth Matters: Environmental Education Conference

The Alberta Council for Environmental Education will host its annual Earth Matters environmental education conference April 25-27, 2013.

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Film: Chasing Ice

| September 29, 2012 | 0 Comments
Film: Chasing Ice

Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers.

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Get your kids away from the screen and into the green

| September 27, 2012
Get your kids away from the screen and into the green

Pushing our kids out the door may be the best way to save the planet. In a survey conducted for the David Suzuki Foundation, 70 per cent of Canadian youth…

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Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

| June 24, 2012 | 0 Comments
Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)

AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures.

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Canada Walks gets kids walking to school

| June 3, 2012
Canada Walks gets kids walking to school

New data from Canada Walks shows that a whopping 41 percent of children were driven to school before the group took aim to reduce that number by increasing the rate of walking and cycling for the school journey.

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COOL 2.0 Takes Off!

| May 31, 2012 | 0 Comments
COOL 2.0 Takes Off!

Greenlearning.ca – Since its launch early in 2012, COOL 2.0 has engaged many teachers and forged new partnerships. For example: Dick Holland and Jennet Poffenroth presented COOL 2.0 to teachers at the Toronto District School Board’s Eureka Conference. The responses were very positive, with one Grade 10 Science teacher commenting, “Finally, I have a way [...]

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