Climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of extreme heat events according to last year’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report. City-dwellers are particularly at
Launched in June 2022, a new and novel index reveals how well cities worldwide are engaging in sustainability and climate action. The Corporate Knights Sustainable Cities Index gave each of the fifty
A recent global assessment conducted by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) found that approximately 50,000 wild species support billions of
Human activity is changing the environment at an unprecedented rate, but can biodiversity evolve fast enough to survive? A recent study discovered that adaptive evolution has its limits. Researchers
A new community development is tapping into the power of wastewater to achieve a carbon-neutral heating system. The Zibi development is located along the Ottawa River and will eventually provide homes
According to Bruce Mau, a Canadian-born designer and author, we live in an era of opportunities for redesign, massive change and profound societal transformation. As a co-founder of the Massive Change
An iconic building in the New York City skyline has undergone a remarkable regenerative transformation to reduce its carbon footprint. Despite being nearly 90 years old, the Empire State building's
Ever since the trucker occupation in Ottawa, I have been puzzling over the lack of civic literacy coupled with the rise of populism. And are there ways to overcome mis and dis-information, and
The climate crisis has catalyzed the mass movement and displacement of humans and wildlife alike. Increases in extreme weather, sea-level rise and water and food shortages have the potential to
The recent ‘truck’ convoy was very disturbing for many reasons, not the least of which was the ignorance around how the Canadian federal/provincial/municipal governments work. Although supposedly, in