Canada's Environmental Voice
Julia Grady is the Executive Director and Co-Founder of 10C Shared Space. Working with long-term community benefit as her core purpose, Julia has led 10C through a decade of innovation, expanding into new project areas and providing a voice for valuable community content – and action.
Move over microbeads! SOURCE: crystalcandymakeup New research indicates that glitter is causing ecological damage to freshwater habitats. Yes, I am talking about the glitter in your $70-dollar Urban Decay eyeshadow palette. According to a new study led by Dr. Dannielle Green of Anglia Ruskin University (ARU), glitter is effecting the […]
On the hierarchy of products, we can’t live without, a coffee-delivery drone using a mechanism to dole out caffeine to tired office workers falls pretty near the bottom of anyone’s list, especially compared to products helping to meet true human needs for food and clean water and air. While drone […]
The Earthshot Prize Source: BBC Move over Nobel Peace Prize, the Nobel Prize for environmentalism is coming through! Sir David Attenborough has joined forces with Prince William to launch “the Earthshot Prize”. According to BBC, this is the biggest environmental prize to date. They are searching for 50 solutions to the world’s […]
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 […]
Do I want it? Yes please, give me all of that green But do I need it? How else will I pay off my debt? Does it matter? All I’ve been doing is simply trying to get by Oh no Turns out the work is just work, No one cares […]
Walking on Thin Ice SOURCE: Pixabay When we think of the species that will be most affected by climate change, our mind often goes to the polar bear. Through aggressive marketing tactics by companies attempting to pose as “do-gooders”, the polar bear has been painted as the poster child of […]
Life’s most impactful moments sometimes come in the simplest of packages and in the most unexpected places. This moment for me came in the form of a single word in the middle of a forest, 650km north of Thunder Bay. It was my first Green Job – a co-op placement […]
Welcome to Trash Talk, This is a safe space to spill all the dirt, all the trashiest stories, and the confessions of the environmental world that we come across and may not want to speak about. Confessions of a Waste Auditor – Part 1 The Wrong Type of Green – […]
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 […]
