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Mayors from around the world making sweeping changes as part of the Earth Hour City Challenge.
The Alberta Council for Environmental Education will host its annual Earth Matters environmental education conference April 25-27, 2013.
The Carbon Rush, a new documentary directed by Amy Miller, counters the propaganda around carbon-trading by featuring the voices of those most affected.
The Transport Futures Governance Summit will take place in Toronto on November 19, 2012.
Award-winning author Andrew Nikiforuk calls for a radical analysis of our master-and-slave relationship to energy and a sweeping new emancipation movement.
The 13th Annual Planet in Focus Environmental Film Festival kicks off October 10 with the World Premiere of Caroline Bacle’s “Lost Rivers”! The Festival features film screenings, a School Program, Industry Series, and free Children’s Program.
Declared to be the largest peaceful act of civil disobedience ever in Canada! Over 80 influential leaders from the business, First Nations, environmental, labour, academic, medical and artistic communities across Canada today announced an upcoming mass sit-in in front of the provincial legislature in Victoria, British Columbia on October 22. The sit-in will oppose tar sands pipelines and tankers and the threats they would pose to the west coast.
Registration is now open for the MCDA’s 37th annual conservation conference December 3-4 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba.
A three-day conference to be held in Toronto, April 18-20, 2013, covering a wide range of topics related to urban ecologies and political transgressions.
Metro Vancouver invites government, businesses and citizens to attend the 2nd Annual Zero Waste Conference 2012 – Rethinking Waste Management
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Great public transit makes for a great city
Most cities in Canada and the U.S. are lacking in infrastructure to move millions of people safely and affordably. With some notable exceptions, such as Vancouver and Calgary, no successful rapid transit infrastructure projects have been built in Canadian cities for decades.
North America’s 2013 Most Sustainable Cities ranking announced
San Francisco proved to be the top performer on urban sustainability, a city well known for its environmental stewardship.
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813: 8 April 2013 – Published by Green Communities Canada RAIN! See Water Canada Magazine article about how user fees and credit system helps Kitchener pay for its municipal stormwater system. Rain barrels, rain gardens, prmeable pavers (as well as cisterns and infiltration galleries) qualify for stormwater credits … RAIN! featured in insert … REEP Green Solutions is coordinating aregion-wide rain barrel [...]
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