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PowerShift: Young and Rising is coming to Ottawa!
Posted on February 11, 20199 Tips To Reduce Plastic Use This Holiday - Don't Let Plastic Steal Your Holiday
Becky Bassick — December 10, 2018Reining in consumerism and reusing last year's wrapping paper doesn't make you a grinch.
About 90% of plastic waste is not recycled in Canada. Household waste volumes double in the week after Christmas in Canada 1 - and we already produce way too much to begin with!
To try and tackle the #ProblemWithPlastics while keeping the season warm and bright, here are some tips to reduce plastic waste during the holidays:
Join Mary And Help Protect The Northumberland Strait
Gretchen Fitzgerald — October 9, 2018Mary Gorman is a Green Hero, local activist, and Sierra Club Member who has dedicated her life to protecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She has lived for decades in the toxic legacy of the Pictou County pulp mill - her family’s cottage was on its once pristine shores.
Here We Stand...And It's Great News!
Gretchen Fitzgerald — August 10, 2018It’s always nice to come back from a lovely vacation to good news – especially in a summer in which we are all sweating in the heat of impending climate chaos. And I’m happy to have some very good news to share with you.
Join Watch for Wildlife at the Lush store in Dartmouth this Saturday!
Gretchen Fitzgerald — July 20, 2018Please join us this Saturday, July 21st, anytime between noon-4pm, as Watch for Wildlife NS and Lush Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth host an Awareness Day about preventing vehicle-collisions with wildlife.
Our Plastics, Ourselves
Melissa Munro — May 22, 2018“I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.”
-- The Graduate, 1967
Plastics: Our Plastics, Ourselves
Becky Bassick — May 16, 2018“I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.”
-- The Graduate, 1967
You need to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer
Melissa Munro — May 9, 2018I highly recommend you take a few minutes to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer. It is an impressive piece of journalism.
Indigenous Peoples, the Nuclear Industry, and Canada’s Nuclear Waste
Posted on April 22, 2018By Dr. Ole Hendrickson