Registration is now open for the MCDA’s 37th annual conservation conference December 3-4 at the Keystone Centre in Brandon, Manitoba. Continue reading Manitoba Conservation Districts Association: “Thriving with Change” Conference, Dec 3-4
Environmental groups applaud NDP’s announcement that they will take back BC’s right to hold its own environmental assessments of the Enbridge Northern Gateway pipeline. Continue reading BC environmentalists applaud NDP for taking a stand on pipeline
Enbridge has stirred up even more controversy in the Northern Gateway pipeline debate by “deleting” islands from its public videos and maps. Continue reading Enbridge “photoshops” islands out of BC’s Douglas Channel
This three-day conference covers a wide range of topics related to urban ecologies and political transgressions.
Continue reading Urban Forestry & Political Ecologies Conference 2013 – Call for Proposals
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. Continue reading Urban Forestry & Political Ecologies Conference 2013 – Call for Proposals
Marine toxicologist Riki Ott warns about risks of oil spills along BC coast. Continue reading Marine specialist Riki Ott warns about oil spills in BC
Each year Toronto’s urban forest produces millions of pounds of edible treats. Follow your taste buds through Toronto’s urban forest and discover what appetizing delights await you in its canopy.
If Herman Daly is the economist for sustainable development, Amory Lovins the physicist and Al Gore the politician, William Ophuls must be the philosopher. Ophuls’ first book on the subject, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (1997), placed him among the few scholars of the time (Rifkin and Daly in the United States; Leiss and Paehlke in Canada) who had managed to bridge the gulf between science and politics to insist that modern values and the democratic politics associated with them were on a collision course with ecology. Continue reading Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
BC artist Laura Wasylyshen wins the Great Bear’s Got Talent contest with her work “Spirit in the Water.” Continue reading Robert Bateman helps crown Vancouver artist as winner of Great Beart Got Talent contest
Troc-Exchange, a Vancouver-based online business that connects communities for trading or swapping goods, has announced the launch of its values-driven bartering website with hopes of reinventing the way we consume.
Christine and Yvan Saché were inspired to create Troc-Exchange.com in Paris, after seeing that unsustainable lifestyles were increasingly causing stress in their beautiful city. When they were no longer able to live with the environmental issues they confronted daily, they decided to make a change a… Read more.. Continue reading Troc-Exchange explores the virtues of collaborative consumption
The environmentally conscious Southbrook Vineyards in Ontario’s Niagara wine-growing region just received two awards for its ongoing commitment to produce organic and biodynamic wines. Continue reading Southbrook Vineyards rewarded for greening the wine industry
In this Q&A, first published in EcoParent, Robin Fraser asks Hikes with Tykes author Rob Bignell about the pleasures and the benefits of nature-walking. Continue reading Rob Bignell talks about Hikes with Tykes
