Canada's Environmental Voice
Mark your calendars Source: Stop the Money Pipeline Today, a coalition of over 130 different organizations across North America, known as Stop the Money Pipeline, are going to come together to protest various financial institutions backing the Trans Mountain, Line 3, and Keystone Pipelines. For years, financial institutions like JP […]
Epic Fail Source: Pixabay Ten years ago, 196 countries gathered in Japan to attend the Convention on Biological Diversity. The meeting resulted in a ten year-plan to save our planet’s natural biodiversity through various targets to meet by 2020. Well, its 2020. How have we done? According to the United Nations’ Global Biodiversity […]
Aliens in the Arctic: how the earthworm is altering the North Presence of geoengineering earthworms in the ArcticSource: Nature Communications According to a recent study the gardener’s best friend, the earthworm, is making Arctic soil too fertile. Earthworms are not usually regarded as an invasive species because they typically help […]
Whether we like it or not, our daily activities increase our carbon footprint. A carbon footprint is the measure of greenhouse gas emissions (including carbon) that a person emits from their daily activities. It is important to know your carbon footprint and take responsibility for the emissions that you are […]
This is the Week This Friday!
Recently I have had the pleasure of receiving a magazine published by Alternatives Journal in the summer of 1978. Within this magazine was an article which immediately caught my eye entitled “Solar Energy: One Union’s Viewpoint” – immediately I wondered what kind of strides had been made with respect to […]
December 1969. I was six years old. It was the same year that humanity slipped its earth-bound mortal coil and alit on the Moon. A young lad, I was astounded and wanted to be an astronaut. December 1969. The US government instituted the draft for the first time since WWII […]
This is the Week This Friday! 6 quick-and-smart briefs about happenings in the environmental space! Tough Plastics Can Now Be Made Recyclable Hit the recycle button on thermoset plastics Source: Polymer Solutions
Last month I came across an article posted by The Guardian on June 17 which piqued my interest titled: “Climate crisis: alarm at record-breaking heatwave in Siberia”. A heatwave in Siberia? Siberia, a place where the only thing I knew about was the cruelty of its winters, was having record […]
As a business owner in the Zero Waste community, I am surrounded by people that look like me. White, female, and probably toting a canvas bag with empty mason jars in it. I have never felt out of place. I was introduced to this community on Instagram when I first […]
