We don’t all have to love the environment the same way
A University of British Columbia professor’s recent book "Eco-Types" helps us understand five ways of relating to the natural world.
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Dealing in fossil fuels? These advertisers won’t work for you
Over 50 Canadian advertisers and PR agencies have joined a 900-strong global group that has pledged not to work for the fossil fuel industry.
Firefighting in Ontario just got greener with the arrival of its first electric fire truck
Brampton Mayor Patrick Brown took to social media to share the news and play up the city's role as a leader in the electrification of municipal vehicles. Brampton is the second city in Canada to buy an electric fire truck; the first was Vancouver.
Building the next generation of eco-conscious leaders
The ImaGENation Youth Mentorship Program supports Indigenous youth in becoming clean energy leaders through a decolonized approach emphasizing land and community.
Canada’s ‘father’ of climate change adaptation urges action
Known by some as “the father of adaptation” to climate change, Ian Burton helped create and expand knowledge of this important concept for five decades in this country. Now, he is being recognized for his groundbreaking work with a 2023 Order of Canada appointment.
Fighting to save our natural world
Amalie Wilkinson helps youth around the world press decision-makers to make mass destruction of nature a crime.
Competition bureau drops false advertising complaint against Shell
An investigation into false advertising by Shell Canada has been closed after the company stopped a campaign which encouraged customers to fund carbon-offset projects at the fuel pump.
Empowering communities and fossil fuel workers to go green
The renewable skills initiative through Iron & Earth teaches participants the skills required in renewable industries such as solar and wind.
Do robot snowplows have a future in Canada?
Robot snowplows have run trials in communities across Canada, as well as on federal land, but whether they'll replace emissions-heavy snowplows is uncertain.
Improving the path to plant two billion trees
One-fifth of tree-planting projects funded by the federal government's two billion trees program are Indigenous-led, and there will soon be more thanks to a new funding stream specifically for Indigenous project proposals.
Feds pay to make climate comfort centres more comfortable
Ottawa is upgrading climate "comfort" centres in Nova Scotia to provide people with beds, medical supplies and generators when natural disasters strike. Climate advocates want to see much more done to prepare.
A researcher’s quest to make heat pumps frost-free
Amirreza Mahmoudi is part of a research team which is focused on finding a retrofit solution for the heat pumps already being produced to make them frost-resistant. The most promising so far is an effort to integrate a membrane into a conventional heat pump to prevent frost.
Digging deep for healthy soil
Tori Waugh, executive director of the Ontario Soil Network, helps farmers share their wisdom on soil health.
Climate training for construction workers coming soon
Canada’s Building Trades Union is setting out to up the entire building industry’s climate knowledge with a new training initiative focused on the role of the trades in addressing and adapting to climate change.
In his spare time, he helped save a forest
Matthew Syvenky, 21, brought his community together to remove invasive species from a part of the Cariboo Heights forest in Burnaby, B.C., and rewild it.