Homeowners across British Columbia once again have access to thousands of dollars in LiveSmart BC grants for energy efficiency improvements to their homes. Continue reading LiveSmart BC offers eco-energy grants to homeowners
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
Vancouver – The Wilderness Committee has reacted to news that on April 1 a permit was issued by the BC government to the First Nation owned logging company Iisaak Forest Resources Ltd to build a logging road into a pristine valley in Clayoquot Sound. Continue reading Wilderness Committee decries new logging road permit issued in BC’s Clayoquot Sound
The Kids’ World of Energy Festival brings together over 4000 students, youth, volunteers and families to engage with hands-on learning about renewable energy. Taking place at the Evergreen Brick Works, this festival will feature 3 curriculum-linked days designed specially for grade 5 and 6 classes, and 2 public days open to the community. Continue reading Kids’ World of Energy Festival: Call for volunteers
In Ontario, 30 million trees a year used to be planted on rural, private lands in the province. In the 1990s, this dropped to a low of only 2 million. Experts tell us that in order to achieve 30 percent forest cover and a healthy ecosystem, we need to plant over a billion more trees. Continue reading CAA and Trees Ontario put on a treeplanting weekend
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
Join charity lawyer Mark Blumberg as he discusses the “dos and don’ts” of charitable receipting (did you know that 89% of registered charities were found to be improperly issuing official donation receipts when audited by Canada Revenue Agency?). This is an interactive session, so you will have lots of opportunities to ask questions. Continue reading Free Charity Law Webinar: Receipting Practices and Legal Compliance for Environmental Charities
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
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
