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Join the global plastic pollution cleanup day and do a mini brand audit!
It’s Brand Audit time again and alongside our allies in the global Break Free From Plastic movement, we’re inviting folks to help gather data from across Canada and around the…
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A call to go on strike for the climate on September 27th
Montreal, September 10th 2019 – Rising up to the climate crisis, unions, students, non-governmental groups, health professionals and environmental groups are calling on mass civil society across Quebec to participate…
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Avoiding the back to school/work plastic blues on your next shopping mission
How is it the end of (northern hemisphere) summer already?! I don’t know about you, but I am so not ready to give up patio lunches, say goodbye to the…
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Marc Gasol joins Greenpeace to fight plastic pollution
Toronto – Today, Toronto Raptors player Marc Gasol announced he will join Greenpeace’s campaign to stop single-use plastics. “I would like to make this world a much more sustainable place…
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Five reasons to look after our land
If we want to keep both our bodies and our planet healthy, we need to make big changes to the way we look after the land.
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IPCC report reveals tough land-use choices needed to stem climate crisis
Toronto – Protecting and restoring forests and urgently revamping the global food system through dietary change are the key solutions to the escalating nature and climate crisis, an authoritative UN…
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REACTION: Sobeys takes a long-awaited first step on the road to the reduction of single-use plastics
Montreal – In response to Sobey’s announcement to remove all plastic bags at the cash in its 255 Canadian locations by the end of January 2020 and in its Montreal…
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Attacks on healthy food are Scheer lunacy – Greenpeace
(TORONTO) In response to Federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer’s pledge to review the Canada Food Guide, Greenpeace Canada Head of Nature and Food Shane Moffatt responded: “These attacks on healthy…
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[INFOGRAPHIC] What is the Green New Deal?
When over 100 groups came together to launch The Pact for a Green New Deal in May, we called for town halls to take place from coast to coast, to shape with you a shared vision of a Green New Deal for all. In less than a month, volunteers organized an astounding 150+ town halls,…
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Greenpeace Applauds Vancouver Council’s Vote for Climate Accountability
Vancouver – Greenpeace Canada applauded the decision by Vancouver City Council to work with other communities to explore legal options for holding big polluters accountable for paying their fair share…