Climate change is having devastating effects on people and wildlife around the world. From a lack of food due to severe droughts to homes being swept away due to rising sea levels, climate change is having a real impact. Read these compelling first-hand accounts of the effects of our warming planet both in Canada and abroad. Continue reading First-hand accounts of our warming planet – WWF
Students from AE Cross painting a mural as part of the 9th annual Alberta Wilderness Association mural competition at the Calgary Tower. The theme for the competition was “Alberta native species in its habitat.” Continue reading Alberta native species in its habitat – 2011 Mural competition
GreenBookReviews.ca is trying something new. Along with weekly missives from our reviewers, we’re going to bring you some interesting reviews from around the web. If a great review comes across your radar, let us know and we’ll share the word on Fridays.
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Continue reading Around the traps
Alternatives’ 40th Anniversary Archive: A Chronicle of Canada’s Environmental Movement. In 145 issues – that’s more than 7000 pages –Alternatives Journal has chronicled Canada’s environmental movement since its modern inception in 1970. Continue reading Pre-Order the Alternatives 40th Anniversary Archive Today!
Flemming Bermann, a software developer in Southampton, England, was frustrated at the lack of good books about climate change and sustainability aimed at children, so he wrote one. Global Warming for Young Minds is intended to be a politically neutral primer on climate change and environmental stewardship for kids between the ages of six and 10. Interspersed throughout the book are games and puzzles meant to build on the ideas presented. Bermann’s intentions are certainly unassailable and he has good ideas, but that is nearly sunk by the book’s cheap and amateurish design and illustrations.
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Continue reading Global Warming for Young Minds
Apr. 4, 2011 – Ottawa – The Hotel Association of Canada (HAC) and MPI Foundation Canada today announced the launch … Continue reading HAC Launches Green Key Meetings
Food Forward asks Toronto candidates on behalf of its members, what will you as MP and your party do to increase access to healthy, sustainable food for all Torontonians? Continue reading Voting with our stomachs
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. Continue reading Save My Lake (Lake Winnipeg) – Nature of Things
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. Continue reading Save My Lake (Lake Winnipeg) – Nature of Things
Interview with Larry Swatuk, associate professor and director of the Environment Department at the University of Waterloo in Canada, about the Master’s in Development Practice (MDP) program. Continue reading Interview with Larry Swatuk
VIllage Vancouver engages individuals and organizations to take actions that build sustainable communities, and have fun doing it. Village Vancouver is the official Transition Initiative for the city of Vancouver and a hub for communities throughout the Lower Mainland of British Columbia. Village Vancouver coordinates, organizes and facilitates individuals, neighbourhoods and organizations to collaborate in taking actions that build sustainable and resilient communities, cities and bioregions. Continue reading Village Vancouver on the cover of Westender
The International Student Energy Summit (ISES) is a global forum that focuses on sustainable resource management and the role that students will play in defining the future of energy development. The International Student Energy Summit targets international, multidisciplinary post secondary students in undergraduate and graduate studies interested in energy. Continue reading 2011 International Student Energy Summit
