We’re just beginning to realize the full potential of using technology to connect curiosity and concern for the planet with meaningful scientific pursuits. Continue reading David Suzuki: Citizens amplify knowledge about the natural world
Compared to more conventional homes in the marketplace, the Endeavour Centre’s greenest home is a true winner. Continue reading Canada’s Greenest Home lives up to its high standards
A challenge for humans in our attempts to manage ecosystems is that we’re often dealing with beings much longer lived than ourselves. Continue reading Historical ecology: Probing the mysteries of ancient landscapes
Learning how to create more efficient breeding strategies could ensure more durable trees for reforestation projects. Continue reading National Tree Day brings new tree breeding strategies
Though they are only the length of a grain of rice, mountain pine beetles have made a devastating impact on our nation’s forests. Continue reading Pine on the Decline: The Mountain Pine Beetle Epidemic
Shared by The Natural Step Canada. (Guelph, Ontario) – The 2014 IMPACT! conference took place in Guelph, Ontario from May 23-26 … Continue reading Keynote by Chad Park at The Co-operators 2014 IMPACT! Youth Conference for Sustainability Leadership
We can all help ensure monarch butterflies continue this wonderful journey every year. Continue reading David Suzuki: Citizen scientists can help monarch butterflies
The Kids’ World of Energy Festival is a four-day environmental children’s festival focused on renewable energy and energy conservation.
Please Apply by April 16, 2014. Continue reading Kids World of Energy Festival Volunteers
Louis C.K. explains it very (and explicitly) well about how humans have viewed their relationship with the environment. Viewer discretion is advised. There is definitely inappropriate language being used, but in this context, it is justified. Continue reading Louis C.K. on our environment
Premieres Thursday, March 13 at 8 p.m. (8:30 NT) on CBC-TV’s The Nature of Things. From the filmmakers of the acclaimed series Human Planet and Planet Earth comes WILD CANADA, an epic four-part series presented by THE NATURE OF THINGS that takes place through time and across the vast scale of the Canadian landscape, revealing the country as it has never been seen before. Continue reading Wild Canada – an epic and breathtaking documentary series about about Canada’s wildlife
We need a national strategy to get our kids eating healthy foods and being active in nature. Continue reading David Suzuki: Healthy kids need time in nature
Live owls will be presented by educators from the Orphaned Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (O.W.L.), which specializes in the rehabilitation of injured or orphaned birds of prey. Continue reading Live Owl Show, March 3, 2013
The Toyota Earth Day Scholarship Program offers 20 scholarships worth $5,000 each to reward graduating high schools students for environmental excellence. Continue reading Celebrating youth environmental action
The National Film Board of Canada (NFB) interactive documentary Bear 71 has received one of the Web’s highest honours: the Favourite Website Awards (FWA) Site of the Year. Continue reading NFB webdoc BEAR 71 named 2012 FWA Site of the Year
Chasing Ice is the story of one man’s mission to change the tide of history by gathering undeniable evidence of our changing planet. Within months of that first trip to Iceland, the photographer conceived the boldest expedition of his life: The Extreme Ice Survey. With a band of young adventurers in tow, Balog began deploying revolutionary time-lapse cameras across the brutal Arctic to capture a multi-year record of the world’s changing glaciers. Continue reading Film: Chasing Ice
Pushing our kids out the door may be the best way to save the planet. In a survey conducted for the David Suzuki Foundation, 70 per cent of Canadian youth… Continue reading Get your kids away from the screen and into the green
“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.”Click through for our full review… Continue reading Plato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
AI WEIWEI: NEVER SORRY is the inside story of a dissident for the digital age who inspires global audiences and blurs the boundaries of art and politics. First-time director Alison Klayman gained unprecedented access to Ai while working as a journalist in China. Her detailed portrait provides a nuanced exploration of contemporary China and one of its most compelling public figures. Continue reading Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry (2012)
