Best Practices

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Shanella Ramkissoon

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The Greenbelt Foundation published a report "Growing Close to Home: Creating Complete Rural Communities" which highlights the opportunities and challenges that rural communities across the Greenbelt face when attempting to create complete communities.

Farm Beefs

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Alexandra Scaman

We need to find better solutions which pose less strain on the environment, without sacrificing farmer yields.

Two Million Too Many

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Shanella Ramkissoon

Millions of pieces of microplastics are settling on the seafloor and unsettling ocean life.

Uprooting Taxes by Planting Trees

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Alexa Ouellette

Financial incentives - like a 0% tax rate on forested land - might incite greener behaviour by the population.

Mesmerizing Mushrooms

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Hilary Boucher

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Fantastic Fungi is a mesmerizing, brief cinematic foray into the fungi kingdom of unrealized potential.

SIGNS OF THE TIME

Feb 10 2020 | IN Students | BY A\J Staff

Delivering civic environmental education from the heart of Kitchener!

Environment: On Canada’s Agenda Again

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

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The 'environment' has surged ahead of the 'economy' as the identified most-important-issue for Canadian voters with a fall election in the offing.

Introducing the 2019 Winners of the YRE Canada Eco-Journalism Competition!

Dec 1969 | IN | BY A\J Staff

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Thanks to Environmental Defence, youth from across the country investigated solutions to environmental challenges in their communities (and around the world), and shared their findings through video, photography, and writing.

This is your brain on shrubs

Apr 22 2019 | IN Students | BY Lori-Ann Livingston

How being outside and among trees improves children’s mental health

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a key proponent of a New Green Deal

The Green New Deal: Our Best Chance on Climate

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

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The 'Green New Deal' addresses today’s two most urgent problems simultaneously: climate change and rising inequality.

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