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How to get your mayor going and your city growing!
Are you eager to eat locally and organically produced food? Do you want to enjoy it at a personal level but also see this change take effect in your community…
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READY, SET… BIKE !
Cycling emerged as a way to stay connected. Biking is this marvellous changing agent and social justice tool, that’s fun and healthy for us and the planet! Mobility for essential workers like healthcare providers is more important than ever. They, like all of us, still need to go buy food, deliver necessities or take care…
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How a true circular economy could be the answer to our plastic problem
The term ‘circular economy’ has become a popular buzzword in government reports, at industry conferences and even on the websites of popular consumer brands.
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Single-use plastics are a health risk, period.
As we think about our economic, societal and planetary recovery from COVID-19, it’s clear that one word stands out – health.
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Single-use plastics ban: 5 actions you can take for a #PlasticFreeFuture
In Canada, this year was expected to be the year that signalled a shift towards an economy less dependent on single-use plastics. We were going to be told what plastics…
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The Makers: People like you building hope for a kinder, fairer economy after COVID-19
Big, transformative change can be hard to picture. Here are four extraordinary "regular" people living the values that should underpin the economic recovery, from installing solar panels, to delivering healthy food to those in need, to sewing masks for health professionals. Let's make the personal political.
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How to Start your Garden: Seed Starting Guide
A series of blogs to guide you towards a more resilient diet in times of health and environmental crisis The The social distancing and confinement required by the coronavirus crisis…
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Ban on single-use plastics: let’s make more noise than lobbies!
Will years of efforts to fight plastic pollution and reduce single-use plastics be wiped out? The year 2020 was supposed to be the year of a marked shift towards an economy less dependent on single-use plastics.
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REACTION: Federal government announcing $252 million aid for farming and agri-food industry
“Food is essential to our health and survival, yet this pandemic has exposed vulnerabilities in our food system and supply chains that demand attention and action. By investing in a…
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We need YOU to help shape the post-pandemic economic recovery
We are a generation of makers, activists, farmers, craftivists, innovators, dreamers, artists and caregivers showing our leaders the change society needs in the economic recovery after COVID-19.
