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Category: Provinces and Territories
Bike Repair Station @ YQQ
What a great idea, especially if you bring your bike off the airplane. That area is a great place to ride. Read more about it.
Video: Solid wood passive house – 90% more energy efficient
The Symonds Passive House is 90% more energy efficient, solar powered and built out of solid wood (cross-laminated timber) and one of the most beautiful super energy efficient homes we’ve seen at Green Energy Futures.
Project Neutral – Get Started
Project Neutral helps you understand how your daily choices impact climate change. Take five minutes to discover your household carbon ‘footprint’ now! Source: Project Neutral – Get Started
BC iSpecies Goshawk on the App Store
This is an informational tool was created by the Province of British Columbia to aid in the identification of Coastal Northern Goshawk. This application contains photos and descriptions of this species at risk, its habitat as well as similar species that may be encountered in coastal forests. It i… Source: BC iSpecies Goshawk on the…
A New Look at the “Guts” of the Plastic Pollution Problem | Sierra Club
A new documentary takes an anti-colonial, feminist view on pollution Source: A New Look at the “Guts” of the Plastic Pollution Problem | Sierra Club
Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami announce first ever Inuit-led climate strategy | Canadian Geographic
The strategy calls for a coordinated climate policy in Inuit Nunangat and will receive $1-million from the federal government Source: Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami announce first ever Inuit-led climate strategy | Canadian Geographic
Nice set up
Go Sustainable Saanich! Probably the best informative and extensive recycling station setup I have ever seen.
Sacred Journey video series celebrates the resurgence of the Indigenous canoe
New online video project underlines the remarkable resurgence of the ocean-going canoe.
Skeena Nations prohibit recreational and sport fisheries due to salmon crisis
Eight First Nations along the Skeena River watershed are standing together to close the freshwater and marine recreational fisheries.
Canada announces efforts to protect its coasts and waterways
Canada announces new initiatives to enhance safety systems in coastal waters and measures to reduce the underwater noise impacting Southern Resident Killer Whales.
Healing a Hurt Land
The Haida Nation and Nature Conservancy of Canada partner to protect culturally and ecologically significant lands on the Kumdis Estuary.
Canada hits a home run for biodiversity conservation
After Canada’s Federal Government commits biodiversity conservation, it’s time for Ontario and other provinces and territories to follow suit.
Talking About Not Talking to BC’s Environment Minister
Our latest episode of Skaana was supposed to be an interview with BC Environment Minister, George Heyman. So was last month’s episode. So was our year-end episode. For that matter, we were also trying to interview the Environment Minister during the last election campaign when he was the environment critic. George Heyman is Skaana’s…
Supercharge Your Purpose: Communications Training Webinars
Second Revolution Communications, along with the Sustainability Network, is pleased to host two upcoming webinars, for those with beginner to intermediate knowledge, that will build your organization’s marketing and communication capacity to maximize your public engagement and fundraising activities. Engineering Effective Events | Tues Feb 27 – 1-2:30pm ET In this webinar, you’ll learn how to turn…
Climate Change and Canadians: New Public Opinion Research by EcoAnalytics
On February 14, 2018 (1-2 pm ET), Sustainability Network & EcoAnalytics will host a webinar about new climate action policies and how Canadians’ attitudes and beliefs change about climate. The webinar, presented by the Université de Montréal’s Dr. Erick Lachapelle and James Boothroyd of EcoAnalytics, evaluates these federal policies and the most powerful narrative frames to…
The Story of Building Ontario’s Bruce Trail
Toronto – The famous Bruce Trail, Canada’s oldest and longest marked footpath, snakes its way all the way from Niagara’s wine country to the tip of the Bruce Peninsula, at Tobermory. Stretching almost 900 kilometres, with roughly 400 kilometres of side trails, the trail offers magnificent hikes along forested cliffs and valleys of the Niagara Escarpment, a…
Green Party Leader Elizabeth May talks Orcas, Right Whales & #Stopkm on Skaana Podcast
Canadian federal Green Party leader, Elizabeth May (@ElizabethMay), talks to Mark Leiren-Young about saving orcas and right whales; stopping Kinder Morgan and Bilcon and Canada’s toothless endangered species laws on the latest episode of the Skaana podcast. “All whales matter. All cetaceans matter. All life matters.” “The most endangered whale species in Canada is the…
