Reducing food waste and saving money
Ben Liegey founded BetterTable to help the food service industry reduce waste and save money.
sustainability
Climate conversations to encourage action
Smiely Khurana’s online platform, The Sustainable Act, showcases thoughtful storytelling about the climate crisis, and encourages us to appreciate each other and take action to protect what we love.
If you fund it, the salmon will come
A new Canada-U.S. treaty to support salmon restoration and ecosystem health rings hollow without continued investment in salmon reintroduction by Canada and B.C.
Non-profit puts the culture in permaculture
On Nova Scotia's eastern shore, a community organization called the Deanery Project provides environmental education and teaches natural building techniques on the site of a former Anglican summer camp.
‘Reached its tipping point’: Tourism and sustainability in Bali aren’t a great match
Over 65 per cent of Bali’s fresh water is funnelled to tourism, which is contributing to a water shortage exacerbated by growing urbanization, recent droughts and climate change.
How to find sustainable salmon
A new labelling initiative is underway to help salmon aficionados indulge in their favourite fish without eating Canada's wild salmon into extinction.
Can a net-zero world lead us to true sustainability?
The Cold War shows that environmental sustainability, like peace, cannot be achieved solely by focusing on technology.
It’s time to evolve beyond business as usual
The identity of business must shift from resource exploitation to resource stewardship.
Climate-friendly flights will cost you more once they are available
When it comes to flying, going green may cost you more. And it's going to take a while for the strategy to take off.
Gathering a grey brigade for climate action
As a co-founder of Climate Legacy, Rieky Stuart supports seniors to use their time, money and voices to move Canada steadily towards sustainability.
Feds urged to turn Competition Act into a greenwashing-fighting machine
Environmental and health groups are prodding the federal government to turn a competition law into a powerful tool to tackle climate change and greenwashing.
Alicia Richins is putting the UN’s sustainable development goals to work
Alicia Richins is a sustainability and social impact consultant based in Toronto, and a fierce advocate of the United Nations' sustainable development goals, or SDGs.
Canada’s biggest certifier of sustainable forests faces greenwashing accusations
Canadian environmental groups have levelled another greenwashing complaint — this time at the largest certification scheme for sustainable forestry in North America.
Hollywood’s pollution adds to the climate crisis. Filmmakers are trying to cut back
A month-long conference kicked off earlier this month with a fireside chat on how Indigenous leaders can help foster sustainability in the film industry.
Canadian climate expert ‘foolishly optimistic’ about the future of sustainable cities
Yuill Herbert has led over 40 community energy and greenhouse gas reduction plans across the country through a workers' co-operative he co-founded called Sustainability Solutions Group.