The Youth Environmental Network (YEN) is a non-advocacy, non-partisan,
National YOUTH DRIVEN organization. We were created by four of Canada’s
leading Youth for Youth Organizations to become the first youth powered
organization in Canada to address the need for capacity building in the
Canadian youth environmental movement.
When the B.C. Liberals announced a plan last February to cut the province’s greenhouse gas emissions 33 per cent by … Continue reading Newswire: Ride the bus, help the planet
The average person uses between 10 and 45 pounds of soap, toiletries and cosmetics each year. Unfortunately, many of these … Continue reading Newswire: Small Steps
(1) Event – Carbon Trading: Solution to Climate Change or Corporate Resource Grab?
(2) Event – Eco-Films at the Park Theatre
(3) Update on UN Climate Change Conference 2007
(4) Winnipeg bike survey
(5) REPORT – Getting to 2050: Canada’s Transition to a Low-emission Future
(6) REPORT – Cool Farming: Climate impacts of agriculture and mitigation potential
(7) New CCC webpage – MANITOBA EMISSIONS DATA
(8) Did you know? Snowblower stats for Canada
(9) Plastic bag update
Continue reading “Climate Change Connection – Update 146 – January 15th, 2008”
Four prairie environmental groups are in Federal Court in Edmonton to challenge plans for Imperial Oil’s Kearl project, the latest … Continue reading Newswire: Environmental groups challenge Imperial Oil’s Kearl project
TORONTO – Ontario’s top health and environment organizations today urged the McGuinty government to enact strong legislation banning the use … Continue reading Top health, environment leaders urge world-class pesticide ban
A study published in the December 14 edition of the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Science concludes that sea lice from salmon … Continue reading TAKE ACTION to protect wild salmon
Ontario is preparing to lift a controversial moratorium on the development of offshore wind projects in the Great Lakes that … Continue reading Ontario to approve Great Lakes wind power
Alberta’s oil sands are taking a hit from new U.S. energy legislation passed last month that has an unusual wrinkle … Continue reading Alberta crude may be too dirty, U.S. law says
Tzep Berman on celebrity and getting things done. A ‘Trees and Us’ podcast. Continue reading Newswire: BC’s Eco-Activist ‘Rock Star’ (in Views)
Canadian graduating high school students have less than three weeks to submit their applications for one of 15 $5,000 awards … Continue reading Deadline approaching for Earth Day Scholarship Program
Province, partners to spend $14-billion for new program; rapid transit, clean-energy buses to highlight service Continue reading Newswire: B.C. unveils huge transit plan
