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© Lora Denis
Our blog this week was originally published by Indigenous Corporate Training Inc. For a very long time, mainstream Canadians were unaware of the horrors and conditions that 150,000 Indigenous children endured in the Indian residential schools over a period of more than 100 years. For many Canadians, the first inkling of the atrocities the children ...
This blog is the fourth in a series that will help you go #GreenStepByStep. Read the first three blogs in the series here: Go #GreenStepByStep #GreenStepByStep: reduce, reuse, recycle… refuse? #GreenStepByStep: bugging out When I first got involved in the environmental movement, I thought it was all about helping the things I love, like turtles, ...
This blog is the third in a series that will help you go #GreenStepByStep. Read the first two blogs in the series here: Go #GreenStepByStep #GreenStepByStep: reduce, reuse, recycle… refuse? Insects are everywhere and they play a key role in our ecosystems, but have you ever considered that they could also be the answer to ...
This blog is the second in a series that will help you go #GreenStepByStep. If you missed the first blog in the series, you can read it here. Our blog this week was originally published for Zero Waste Forest City, a London-based community group that focuses on making a low impact lifestyle more approachable for ...
Red-headed woodpecker © Dan Rockafellow
Dear MPP/Honourable, Planet Earth is a shared home for humans and millions of other species, and our fates and well-being are interdependent. Yet, as a result of unsustainable human activity, we are now in the throes of the largest mass extinction since the disappearance of the dinosaurs more than 65 million years ago. In response ...
Laurel Creek Conservation Area © Carl Hiebert / Grand River Conservation Authority