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Composting in Action: What Canadian Cities and Indigenous Communities Can Teach Us
Canada’s cities, towns, and Indigenous communities are developing inspiring, scalable composting programs. Indigenous communities are pioneering innovative waste solutions. These projects blend climate action with cultural values, advancing food sovereignty and environmental stewardship.
Aug 11, 2025


Why Canadian Wildfires Are Getting Worse – Fire Ecology and Forest Health
Canada’s 2025 wildfire season has already been catastrophic. The nearly 9.6 million acres already burned this year raise urgent questions. Why are wildfires increasing in Canada? And how do they impact our ecosystems?
Aug 5, 2025


Why Composting Is Crucial to Canada’s Climate Strategy – A national look at why organic waste matters and how provinces step up
Canada’s landfills are leaking methane, a greenhouse gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide, into the atmosphere every day. But part of the solution is already in our kitchens, gardens, and communities.
Aug 2, 2025


Canada’s Race for Leadership in the Global Critical Minerals Industry
Canada is building more than just mines. We’re developing a full-scale critical minerals processing industry to supply the clean energy revolution. From cutting-edge lithium recycling to ultra-low-emission nickel production, we’re leaning into innovation to become a global leader.
Jul 30, 2025


Canada’s Critical Minerals Push for Clean Energy
Canada is moving to secure our place in the global clean energy transition. But electric vehicles, solar panels, and wind turbines technologies all depend on one thing: critical minerals. Canada is building a secure and responsible supply chain, from mining to processing, to meet that demand.
Jul 28, 2025


Canada’s Windy Frontier: Are Floating Offshore Wind Farms the Future?
Canada is surrounded by energy. Literally. With over 243,000 kilometres of coastline and some of the world’s strongest offshore wind resources, we have enormous potential to lead in floating offshore wind energy. Yet, surprisingly, not a single floating offshore wind farm (FOWF) is operational here.
Jul 24, 2025


The Single-Use Cup Crisis: Is Your Daily Coffee or Pop Habit Environmentally Sustainable?
Many Canadians consume single-use plastic products every day. A coffee on the go, a soda from a drive-thru, or a drink at a social gathering often comes in a single-use plastic cup.
Jul 22, 2025


Climate Change Confusion: Can We Stop the Spread of Misinformation?
Misinformation is a pervasive issue in Western society. These problems arise because people are expected to rely on accurate information to make well-reasoned and informed decisions about many aspects of their daily lives. For example, to make informed choices about what to eat or whether to purchase an electric vehicle, people need to understand the differences between the available options.
Jul 17, 2025


Urban Agriculture Builds Greener, Healthier Cities – A Fresh Solution for a Growing Problem
As cities grow, so does the distance our food travels. Most of what we eat is produced far away, then trucked into urban areas, generating significant greenhouse gas emissions. Urban agriculture (UA) is a growing movement that directly brings food production into cities, onto rooftops, community gardens, and within schoolyards.
Jul 11, 2025


Industrial Agriculture Drives Greenhouse Gas Emissions - The Hidden Carbon Cost of Your Salad
Sitting down to enjoy a salad, you probably think about freshness and health, not diesel fuel. But most of our vegetables are grown, processed, and transported using fossil fuels. This contributes significantly to global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, hidden from our daily choices.
Jul 9, 2025


From Plans to Pauses: The Rocky Road of Small Modular Reactor (SMR) Deployment in Canada
Canada’s SMR strategy earned us international attention. National action plans, major investments, and provincial partnerships all aim to position the country as a global SMR leader. But as promising as that sounds, Canada’s path toward operational SMRs has been more complex than hoped.
Jul 7, 2025


Origins of Climate Change Disinformation
(Mis/Dis)information has been used around the world for more than 2500 years. Popular writings from China, the Roman Empire, the Italian Renaissance, and the United States advocate its use as a necessary way to shape the thoughts, beliefs, and actions of the population.
Jul 3, 2025


Coral in the Cold: Canada’s Cold-Water Reefs Are at Risk (and in Need of Marine Conservation)
Canada has the longest coastline in the world. Icy Arctic water and cold-water reefs face huge threats, such as bleaching coral reefs. Mass bleaching began in 2023 from rising ocean temperatures in over 80 countries.
Jun 27, 2025


Climate Change Misinformation, Disinformation, and Fake News
A quick guide to understanding the differences between misinformation, disinformation, and fake news as it relates to climate change
Jun 20, 2025


Greening Up Canada’s Concrete for a More Sustainable Future
Concrete is everywhere in our homes, roads, schools, and bridges. But making it comes at a big cost. Cement, the key ingredient, contributes about 7% of global CO₂ emissions. In Canada, cement production alone accounted for 9.7 million tonnes of CO₂ in 2020, roughly 1.4% of the country’s total emissions.
Jun 18, 2025


Solar Thermal Air Collectors: What they are and why they matter!
The clean energy industry is constantly growing. As demand grows for clean alternatives to fossil fuels, there is a rising focus on hydro, wind, solar, and nuclear power alternatives. Using clean energy has financial benefits for the industry and individual households. Additionally, clean energy helps reduce pollution, furthering the promise of a healthier future for all Canadians. With hydro leading Canada’s clean energy sector, there are many opportunities for wind and sola
Jun 7, 2025


Trash to Clean Energy: How Hydrogen Can Be Made from Waste
Did you know that we can turn garbage into clean energy?
Jun 2, 2025


Canada’s Carbon Tax: What’s Really Going On?
Most Canadians believe climate change is real, but many don’t understand or trust the carbon tax. Let’s break down what’s happening and why the policy sparked so much debate.
May 30, 2025


Grey, Blue, or Green Hydrogen: What are the Headlines About?
Hydrogen is making headlines again for good reason. As parts of the world race toward net-zero emissions, hydrogen is hailed as a versatile, clean energy source that could well start replacing fossil fuels across industries.
May 21, 2025


Power Struggles: How to Add Renewable Energy to the Canadian Electrical Power Grid
How to Add Renewable Energy to the Canadian Electrical Power Grid
May 7, 2025
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