Food Matters Manitoba is hosting the 5th annual “Growing Local” conference, celebrating food skills, local farmers and work towards healthy, fair, and sustainable food, featuring a keynote address by internationally acclaimed Anishinaabe author and orator Winona LaDuke.
Pimachiowin Aki: A nomination for UNESCO heritage status
Representatives from the Pimachiowin Aki UNESCO World Heritage Site project partnership gathered in Winnipeg last week to celebrate the send-off of their nomination package to the Paris, France headquarters of UNESCO.
Sun Gro proposes a peat mine in Manitoba’s Hecla Park
Public comment essential on multinational corporation’s bid to mine peat in Hecla Provincial Park.
Video: Vaclav Smil – Drivers of environmental change: focus on energy transitions
An engaging webcast entitled "Drivers of environmental change: focus on energy transitions" sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre and hosted by St. John's College.
The Winnipeg Green Lifestyle & Natural Living Show Oct. 22-23, 2011
The Green Lifestyle & Natural Living Show, the 2nd Annual event is a celebration of all things green. It's about living a natural, healthy, eco-friendly life in Winnipeg.
Logging and mining hurting moose populations in Manitoba
The Wilderness Committee is again calling the Manitoba government to account on plummeting moose populations, and encouraging them to fix the problem by addressing the root cause of the decline: industrial activity in our wildlands.
Save My Lake (Lake Winnipeg) – Nature of Things
Sunday, APRIL 3rd, CBC Television’s The Nature of Things premieres SAVE MY LAKE, a documentary that plunges into the scientific and environmental factors behind the shocking deterioration of spectacular Lake Winnipeg over the past 35 years.
University of Manitoba Environmental Awareness Week 2011
Make sure to mark your calendars for the Environmental Awareness Week 2011 at the University of Manitoba from March 14th-18th! The University of Manitoba Recycling and Environmental Group (UMREG) is hosting the event and already has a variety of organizations tabling all week and great workshops to attend!
Climate Change Boot Camp
April 1st 2011 - Eco-Centre Winnipeg. The workshop consists of presentations by experts as well as community level practitioners and will assist you to engage, empower and educate your community about climate change.
Summers are meant to be an outdoor adventure
It’s an outdoor adventure of a lifetime, and everyone 14- to 17-years-old who is interested in the outdoors, conservation, wetlands, wildlife, science, and the environment, has a chance to be a part of it. Applications are now open for Ducks Unlimited Canada’s (DUC) 2011 Canadian Wetland Adventure Camp (CWAC).
Manitoba’s Meditation Lake still protected Whiteshell Park
Manitobans celebrate the provincial government's announcement to permanently protect the Meditation Lake area in Whiteshell Provincial Park. But concerns about private development at Sylvia Lake in Whiteshell Provincial Park remain.
Caribou habitat still in decline in Canada’s Boreal Forest
Winnipeg - The Manitoba government has granted the logging corporation Tolko approval to log the habitat of endangered woodland caribou in northwestern Manitoba.
