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Category: Reduce Your Footprint

Protecting Ontario’s Lakes From Fireworks

December 22, 2021–Enid Mallory

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Recreation and Events•Reduce Your Footprint

© DaMongMan CC BY 2.0

As fireworks explode on December 31st flocks of wintering birds also explode into the air in panic. They become disoriented, bang into windows or trees, fly too high and too ...

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Reimagining Lawns

June 18, 2021–Maya Davidson

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Gardening•Reduce Your Footprint•Stewardship and restoration

Monoculture lawns of green are simple, non-supportive ecosystems. © Maya Davidson

How do you picture the perfect lawn? For most, an image of a well-manicured, freshly mowed yard comes to mind. With hot weather approaching, many Ontarians are starting to wake ...

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Birds and Plastic Pollution – A Case Study in Toronto

May 6, 2021–Melina Damian

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Birds•Habitat•Reduce Your Footprint•Wild Species

Display of 80 anthropogenic debris pieces found in a single nest © Melina Damian

When you think of a bird’s nest, what’s the first image that comes to mind? Probably a bunch of sticks and leaves bundled together – right? Unfortunately, for birds that ...

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The Peoples’ Climate Vote

March 31, 2021–Rebecca Clarke

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Campaigns and advocacy•Climate Change•Reduce Your Footprint•Youth

Global Climate Strike - Toronto, 9-27-2019 © Noah Cole

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has recommended that warming be limited to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels to prevent the irreversible effects of climate change. The science suggests ...

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#GreenStepByStep: Caring For the Planet By Caring For Yourself

April 4, 2019–Guest blogger

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Climate Change•Reduce Your Footprint

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? ...

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