It is another gloomy day here and I stumbled across an article from the Washington post entitled The Gifts our Dying Dog Gave to Our Sons. I have loved dogs ever since I was small and brought a little
Despite building 400,000 new homes over the past 20 years, Toronto and Vancouver continue to top international rankings of unaffordable cities. As housing becomes increasingly “hyper-commodified”
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
Energy Drawdown has come up with 100 solutions to reverse global warming. Solution #60 focuses on food composting and has the potential to reduce 2.28 gigatons of CO2 by 2050. While almost half of all
A global assessment found that just a third of the world’s rivers remain free flowing. Described as the lifeblood of the planet, rivers are teeming with life and are a vital source for clean drinking
Several of us (Hilary Leighton, Leslie King, Rob Newell and Ann Dale) recently participated in a Climate Consciousness Conference in Findhorn, Scotland. Prior to that, we spent a few days in Paris and
The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES) just released a landmark report revealing the unprecedented rate in which nature is in decline. Compiled by
“From this moment despair ends and tactics begin.” These are the words brandished across a new mural that suddenly appeared near London’s Hyde Park. Located at Extinction Rebellion’s Marble Arch
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
Research shows that one of the most effective ways we can tackle climate change is by reducing our meat consumption or even cutting it out entirely. According to the Food and Agriculture Organization