Alberta’s solar potential is measured as high as any other community its size anywhere else in the world.
The Alberta Council for Environmental Education will host its annual Earth Matters environmental education conference April 25-27, 2013.
Over 5,000 people sign a petition asking Alberta Premier Alison Redford to meet with the public for an independent review of pipeline safety in Alberta.
Enbridge has stirred up even more controversy in the Northern Gateway pipeline debate by “deleting” islands from its public videos and maps.
B.C.’s Christy Clark was right to walk away from a national energy strategy. She just did it for the wrong reasons.
Several scientific reports have called into question everything from injection wells to carbon capture and storage. The latter is a key component of the federal and Alberta governments’ climate change strategies and budgets.
The goal of our government and industry leaders appears to be to dig up as much oil as possible, as quickly as possible, and sell it overseas, and damn the economic and environmental consequences.
Last week, the Nature Conservancy of Canada, Alberta Region, announced protection of a 536-hectare Alberta Ranch in the Castle Crown Natural Area.
In honour of Earth Day on April 22, the Saskatchewan Research Council is educating the public on what this will mean for the Prairie provinces.
To mobilize against the proposed Northern Gateway pipeline, the International League of Conservation Photographers and members of the Gitga’ at First Nation capture breathtaking images of the wildlife inhabiting BC’s Great Bear Rainforest, home of the elusive spirit bear.
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Fundraising Ideas, Summer Camp, Organic Waste, Fake Anti-Wind Protesters – GCNews #813
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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