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Canada bans microbeads! Another move to tackle plastic pollution…and more needed!
When you google “microbeads,” calls to ban them pop up in the search results even before the trusty Wikipedia definition. That’s because scientific studies and environmental organizations have shone a…
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So loud it can kill a whale
Seismic blasting is threatening life in the Arctic. All life.
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How does solar work in the Arctic?
Solar in the Arctic at first seems to be an oxymoron. After all, it is dark in the Arctic for nearly half the year. But then again, it's light for half the year too – just like on the rest of the earth!
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Top 10 Solar Facts
This summer, we’re launching a new campaign to bring solar power to all people and communities in Alberta. Solar4All is about going beyond fossil fuels by not only changing where our energy comes from but how it’s owned, distributed, and controlled. Unlike fossil fuels, solar power can be a source of clean, low-cost energy that…
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Shell’s retreat from Canadian Arctic creates space for Arctic protection
Earlier this week on World Oceans Day we were greeted with some wonderful and exciting news: Shell announced it was giving up all its offshore exploration permits in the Canadian Arctic!
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This is BIG! The seafood industry & major brands like McDonald’s commit to safeguard the Arctic
Amazing news! Today an entire industry including major global brands McDonald’s, Tesco, Young’s Seafood and Iglo agreed to push back against destruction of our pristine Arctic waters.
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Overcoming the Impossible: Safeguarding the Great Bear Rainforest
It’s Monday and I am standing in a room, waiting to speak at the media conference that announces the completion of the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements – safeguarding an area of forest larger than Vancouver Island, bigger than Belgium. This day is twenty years in the making.
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Celebrating twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest
At long last, today we celebrate the culmination of over twenty years of campaigning to safeguard the Great Bear Rainforest. We started with conflict in the mid-1990s: exposing to the…
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Great Bear to the Boreal: 7 Ways to Shorten a Campaign for Forest Protection
We are getting much closer to the end of the long and winding road that has been the Great Bear Rainforest campaign. As I mentioned in a recent blog, along the way to completing the Great Bear Rainforest Agreements we have encountered pot holes, forks, stop signs, and late last year, a couple of big…
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Protecting Intact Forests & FSC’s Motion 65: Getting the Facts Straight
The term Intact Forest Landscape (IFL) is well recognized in scientific literature and certification standards, and within the supply chain and in the policies of major forest product companies. IFLs…