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Milan is reducing car traffic
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The city of Milan in the hard-hit Lombardy region of Italy is preparing to reduce car traffic post-COVID-19 lockdown, according to the Guardian. Their ambitious scheme will reallocate 35km of streets

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Potentials and Possibilities for a Sustainable Future
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You may be surprised by this article by George Monbiot from the Guardian making a cogent argument for lab-grown food in the future. Lab-grown food will soon destroy farming—and save the planet describ

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Putting a price on carbon is working! Look at these 6 examples
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Despite what you may find amid the myriads of comments in social media on climate change policies, carbon pricing has been working for a long time. Canada’s Ecofiscal Commission recently released a st

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Effecting Change in the Building Sector
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According to Thomas Mueller, president and CEO of the Canada Green Building Council, buildings are responsible for 30% of the country’s emissions, which are mostly generated by heating, cooling, and

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Finland and Norway: Tempting the world to invest in the future
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After an unprecedented five-party coalition formed between centrist, leftist, and green parties, Finland’s new government is making a bold move. They have pledged to become carbon neutral by 2035, far

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Meeting the Zero Emission Challenge
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​A new report by the David Suzuki Foundation reveals how Canada can zero out our emissions by the middle of this century. Based on decarbonization studies in Canada and around the world, it highlights

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What is a Good Society?
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Canada, the UK, and the US often ship contaminated, mixed, or non-recyclable waste to Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines, among other countries. This enables richer countries to adopt an ‘out of

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Building Resiliency in Canada
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Amid current floods triggering states of emergency and forced evacuations in Quebec, Canada’s National Building Code is being updated to address the imperative and very urgent challenges posed by

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Misplaced Concreteness
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There is a scholar, Alfred Whitehead, who talks about the fallacy of misplaced concreteness, that is when an abstract belief is treated as if it were a concrete real event or physical entity. One

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The Green New Deal
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Last week, the U.S. unveiled a Green New Deal resolution, which outlines plans to become carbon neutral in the next 10 years. With a WWII-level of economic transformation, it calls for national

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