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Category: Community Stewardship and Living
EthicalTree hopes to connect ethically-oriented consumers and businesses
Ottawa – While studying international development and entrepreneurship at the University of Ottawa, Frank Ferris saw a huge gap between the number of ethically-oriented consumers and the available resources for helping them find businesses and products they wanted. That realization would eventually lead to EthicalTree.com, an online resource for aligning those consumers with the businesses…
Call for Volunteers: Kids’ World of Energy Festival
TREC Education, a registered charity, is looking for volunteers for its 9th annual Kids World of Energy Festival from May 4 – 7, 2016 at Evergreen Brick Works in Toronto.
Northern BC First Nations discuss concerns over major resource developments
First Nations leaders from throughout northern BC gather in Prince George to discuss a process of resource development they say is broken.
Ottawa’s Native Plant Garden Days
Visit Ottawa’s native plant gardens – locations across the city. Free event – in conjunction with Garden Days Canada.
Community Planting Event Quebec – June 20, 2015
Join Forests Ontario, Forest Recovery Canada and their partners, including event supporters Honda, City of Boucherville, and Soverdi on June 20th. Take part in a free workshop that will provide participants with a practical and hands-on opportunity to learn about tree planting!
Sharing the Range with Grizzly Bears
A story about the challenges of living with large carnivores, and how the Waterton Biosphere Reserve and others are meeting those challenges.
Restoring confidence in our sustainable future
Chris Winter, Project Director for Canada Conserves, stands back to assess the bigger picture.
Innovation Talk | Adapting to a Changing Climate
Learn how communities and cities can become more resilient with climate change adaptation practitioners David MacLeod, Blair Feltmate and Dan Sandink.
Expats in Canada go green to get involved
Activities like urban gardening and food growing help expats feel like they belong in their new communities.
Biking and hiking for Green Teams of Canada
Lyda Salatian treks throughout BC and Alberta in an effort to support her budding environmental charity, Green Teams of Canada.
Global clothing brands look to eliminate endangered forests from viscose fabric
The world’s leading clothing brands develop new purchasing commitments as part of Canopy’s Fashion Loved by Forest campaign.
David Suzuki: Let’s celebrate the gifts of winter
Get out and enjoy the gifts that winter brings.
A sustainable urban centre takes shape in Calgary
The Seton Urban District in south Calgary promises to be one of the most comprehensive mixed-use developments in North America.
Troc-Exchange explores the virtues of collaborative consumption
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..
Canada Walks gets kids walking to school
New data from Canada Walks shows that a whopping 41 percent of children were driven to school before the group took aim to reduce that number by increasing the rate of walking and cycling for the school journey.
To nurture our kids, with nature
In this exclusive sneak peek from EcoParent magazine, Environmental Defence executive director, Rick Smith, makes the case for nature-based learning.
Nature Conservancy launches volunteer initiative for National Volunteer Week
The Nature Conservancy of Canada is offering a fresh, new season of Conservation Volunteers events just in time for both National Volunteer Week and Earth Week.
