Stuff From Other Environmental Groups (March)
FROM CBC NEWS “WHAT ON EARTH?” - Find old issues of What on Earth Here!
Regenerative Farming: Large food companies are studying ways to measure and track carbon stored in soil so that in the future they can compensate farmers in their supply chain for storing carbon in their pastures. The idea is to encourage "regenerative farming" as a way to cut the huge carbon emissions from food production!
Electronic Repairs: Makers of electronic devices in France must now tell consumers how repairable their products are via a "repairability index to fight ‘planned obsolescence’. Ask for this here!
Online Thrifting: Read the article here!
Infrared heating panels use a small amount of electricity, require no special tools or technicians to install, require no servicing and can work for many years compared to geothermal heating systems.
FROM PREVENT CANCER NOW
Wireless Tech: Did you know that Canadians use the same wireless technology as is being challenged in U.S. federal court for being unsafe? Fibre optics is safe! Sign the Appeal for Safer, Faster, Reliable Fibre Optic Technology in Canada. Testing was done using dummies with liquid inside their heads and with heat changes from electronic devices recorded… yet G5 doesn’t change cell temperatures…
FROM CANADIAN FRESHWATER ALLIANCE
Water Quality and Road Salt: Find out how you can reduce your water use!
River Rights: A river has been granted official rights and legal personhood in Canada! The Magpie River/Muteshekau-shipu (in Innu) has been assigned nine rights, as well as potential legal guardians responsible for ensuring that these rights are respected.
Watershed Health: Canada has lost almost 90% of natural wetlands (crucial for protecting fresh water). Stand with us and other freshwater champions across the country as we demand funding commitments to a #lueRecovery from the federal government!
CodeblueBC Turns One: Check it out! Demand CodeBlueBC Action: It's Time!
FROM BC NATURE
Nature’s Impact On Our Wellbeing: Take this anonymous UBC survey re: isolation (COVID) before June 11, 2021!
The Movement to Protect Old-Growth Forests: Check it out!
Celebrate Wetlands: Here are eight ways!66
FROM COUNCIL OF CANADIANS
1. ACTION - Not Net Zero Carbon: Sign the petition to ask for effective accountability measures!
FROM DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION
1. Effective Local Action: The Butterflyway Project has inspired people to plant thousands of pollinator-friendly native wildflowers everywhere in Canada. The project supports monarch butterflies making their migration from Canada to Mexico and back. Monarchs need milkweed to lay eggs and feed, but urban and agricultural development has been wiping out the plants. Since 2016, 1,008 volunteers have planted over 54,000 native wildflowers in over 1,000 pollinator patches in 100 communities to feed and shelter birds, bees and butterflies.
2. Canada’s Budget Consultations: Fill in this questionnaire to push for a green recovery!
3. Transit Expansion: According to this study, public transit is still important to us despite the pandemic! So thanks to people like you, on February 10th the federal government announced it will establish a permanent fund for public transit expansion throughout Canada. Here's a Globe & Mail story about it!
FROM LIVING OCEANS
1. Seafood labelling Gets a Fail: Read the bit in the middle of the newsletter!
2. Good News For Wild Salmon: Read the bit near the end of the newsletter!
FROM INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT (IISD)
1. Single Use Plastics: Here are simple-yet-effective steps the Canadian government can take to curb the rise in this pollution!
2. Plant-based Diets: Apparently a global shift to this type of diet could have harmful impacts...
3. Community-led Sustainability Projects: A series of "What-If" simulations in Ghana showed the economic value of these projects!