sustainability

Alexander Reford has directed the Les Jardins de Métis (Reford Gardens), a 100-acre property nestled on the banks of the St. Lawrence River in Grand-Métis, since the 1990s.

It is imperative that educational institutions, including the University of Victoria, join schools across Canada that have committed to fossil fuel divestment, write University of Victoria students Hailey Chutter, Robin Pollard and Emma-Jane Burian.

Alberta's capital has big plans for Blatchford, a high-density, low-carbon neighbourhood that's reimagining sustainable city living.

When the pandemic first hit, many people started looking up at the stars, searching for respite from the chaos on Earth. Yet for Joshua Evans, a Canadian PhD student of geography at Oxford University, the heavens evoked more than freedom from lockdown: A few weeks earlier, he had sent a pot of miso to the International Space Station (ISS) and its return was imminent.

Residents of Sackville, N.B., demanded a voice in their community's climate conversation — and the town listened. Now, a group of concerned citizens and experts is helping to steer the municipality toward a sustainable future.

The first batch of baby crickets moved into Matt Muzzatti's living room when the pandemic hit last year, and he’s been adding more ever since.

A new project out of McGill University and the National Film Board of Canada called PIVOT aims to raise awareness about what small- and medium-sized operations across the country are doing to be sustainable.

I can’t help but think, if Epicurious is taking sustainability and environmental impact seriously, wouldn’t it be a better pledge to exclude the use of cow products altogether? Milk? Cheese? Butter? That's what Joanna Tymkiw thinks.

As part of a series highlighting the work of young people in addressing the climate crisis, writer Patricia Lane interviews Pier-Olivier Boudreault, conservation director for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society Quebec. 

On Monday, federal Agriculture Minister Marie-Claude Bibeau announced $1.6 million for Agriculture in the Classroom Canada, an organization that works with schools across the country to implement food and agriculture into curriculums.

The young leaders of Youth Roots Durham want to educate youth and other local residents and help them find ways to produce, store and transport food sustainably.

Manitoba student Nicholas Pasieczka tells Patricia Lane that he is shooting for a world where there is clean air, water, food, energy and enough medicine for everyone.

Sujane Kandasamy's Hindu culture taught her that people are all just visitors on this earth and have a duty to leave the planet hospitable for future generations.

In 2019, Sebastien Molgat, now 23, created the Arctic Youth Network with an international team of young people. And he has bigger plans for the future.

“No matter where you work, I respect you for putting food on the table. But I do have to say that my life has additional meaning now,” Nick Kendrick says.