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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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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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Taking a bite out of climate change with World Meat Free Week
Greenpeace calling for a culture shift towards more plant-based food and away from industrial meat June 17, 2019 (Toronto) – To mark World Meat Free Week (17-23 June), Greenpeace Canada…
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New Executive Director focuses on a Greenpeace for a new generation
Toronto – With great enthusiasm and pleasure, Greenpeace Canada’s Board of Directors announces the appointment of Christy Ferguson to the position of Executive Director. The 42-year-old new mother has been…
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Biodiversity loss: urgent need for forest, ocean protection and dietary change
Toronto- The UN’s biodiversity report warning of mass species loss due to human impacts must spark urgent action to protect the world’s forests and oceans and lead to sweeping change…
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What’s the harm in processed meat and dairy?
In 2015, when the World Health Organisation released a report that classified meat as a carcinogenic and red meat as ‘possibly carcinogenic’ red flags were raised around the amounts and…
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Share your pics of ridiculous packaging!
Have you ever looked around - at the supermarket, or coffee shop, or local mall - and noticed how much excessive plastic there is? Once you start looking for it, it’s EVERYWHERE. And it’s a huge problem.
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2017 Tuna Ranking reveals more green tuna products but not enough green tuna aisles
Our 2017 Canned Tuna Sustainability Ranking is out and with it comes more intel than ever before about the state of canned tuna aisles in well-known supermarket chains across Canada. There’s some good and some bad news to share, but overall Greenpeace is happy to report that there has been progress by ranked brands when…
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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.