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How to manage eco-anxiety: Advice from a climate activist
“The moon is following us home again!” My daughter exclaimed as she always does. “But why is it red?” Her question hit me with the weight of the realization that with the moon, the climate crisis, too, is following us home.
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Thousands of Indigenous Peoples are gathered to defend the Amazon & their rights — What’s happening, why it matters, what you can do
The “Struggle for Life” (“Luta pela vida”) Camp has brought together up to 6,000 Indigenous leaders and activists from all regions of Brazil to protest the government’s anti-Indigenous policies
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Amazon Rainforest at the Tipping Point — And What We Can Do
The Amazon rainforest is on the brink, and now the “burning season” is getting started.
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Extreme Heat events affect the vulnerable the most. This must change.
Climate change is increasing the severity and frequency of extreme heat waves, sea-level rise and flooding across Canada. The people most susceptible to dying in extreme heat waves are people of color, the elderly, people with underlying health conditions, and mental illness or addiction.
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Greenpeace report: Canadian banks defying climate science by increasing fossil fuel finance
Canadian banks are playing a growing and globally significant role in fueling climate destruction and are more exposed to climate risk than they are telling their shareholders according to data in a new Greenpeace report.The report finds that prior to the pandemic, Canadian big 5 banks steadily increased their fossil fuel loans and investments since…
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How Glyphosate Herbicide is Used to Poison Forests – And What You Can Do
First comes the clearcut. Then, as the forest begins to regrow, helicopters fly over. They spray glyphosate herbicide - key ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup - across the landscape.
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When did protecting the planet become anti-Albertan?
The Alberta government’s “Public Inquiry into Anti-Alberta Energy Campaigns” is set to label Greenpeace as “anti-Albertan,” as part of a broader effort to intimidate and silence critics of the oil industry.
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Toronto Volunteers Pressure Insurance Companies to Drop Pipeline Support
We don’t want any additional fossil fuel projects and Indigenous rights can’t continue to be neglected. The week of action pressured the insurance companies ensuring this pipeline to stop, such as Berkley, Chubb, Liberty Mutual, and more, as their support is crucial for the project to operate.
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GNL Québec Project Rejected: Another Great People-Powered Victory Over the Fossil Fuel Industry
The signatory groups welcome the Quebec government's announcement rejecting the GNL Québec LNG project. This announcement is a victory for the tens of thousands of people who have mobilized over the past three years.
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HUGE VICTORY! People power defeats proposed GNL Quebec gas plant
VICTORY! Legault backs down in the face of public pressure and rejects GNL Quebec project.