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Three easy ways to purge plastic from your life
Here's how to rid plastic from your daily routine and advocate for long-term environmental change more
Is there such thing as an ethical ride-hailing service?
Apps claiming to be more socially responsible than scandal-plagued Uber are popping up in Toronto. NOW's Ecoholic columnist asks whether we're being taken for a ride more
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Ecoholic Adria Vasil's planetary predictions for 2018
How a global “renaissance” for all things plasticky will spark a zero-waste revolution – and other environmental prognostications for the new year more
Maša Kores
How Bea Johnson turned the zero-waste lifestyle movement into her family’s reality
The "priestess of waste-free living" can famously fit a year’s worth of trash into a single mason jar more
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Eight tips for going zero waste in Toronto
Forget the old 3Rs – reducing your trashprint is all about the 5Rs more
G. Horton-Baptiste
Great Lakes Water Walk has me walking on water
As tears well up in my eyes, I tell the water that I hope the city will start taking better care of it more
Interview: Naomi Klein
Toronto-based activist journalist takes on corporate media's (and her own) Donald Trump addiction, Trudeau's arms build-up and how NDP leadership contenders are missing a Bernie Sanders-style opportunity more
Greenpeace
Greenpeace's battle royal over the boreal
Environmental group says Canada’s largest logging company is trying to axe it out of existence with $300 million lawsuit more
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Toronto's glass condos are burning thermal holes in the sky
Greenhouse-gas-leaking towers setting us up for climate change fail more
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Earth Day prophecy: women rising up in fight against climate chaos
Around the world this Earth Day, as a growing army of women stand up for a more sustainable planet, mainstream environmental groups are becoming more inclusively female more
Animal Equality
Easter not so happy for rabbits raised for meat in Canada
Rabbit is turning up on more Toronto restaurant menus as the new "ethical" white meat of choice, but animal rights activists say there's nothing humane about the way they're treated by the industry more
Greenpeace
Calgary think tank says environmentalists need to "end the charade" against oil sands
According to the Canada West Foundation, keeping the oil sands in the ground and stopping new pipelines “will actually increase greenhouse gas emissions" – wait, what? more
Cheerios’ #bringbackthebees seed giveaway creates bad buzz
PEI seed supplier denies wildflower mix used in Honey Nut Cheerios PR campaign promotes the growth of invasive species more
Pesticide banned in Europe found in Toronto's tap water
Research around atrazine has found endocrine-disrupting properties connected to hermaphrodite frogs, feminized fish and low sperm counts in humans living in agricultural areas more
Sam Rabinovici
Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan faced with growing pressure to divest from fossil fuels
Efforts are afoot to put divestment motions on the floor at teachers union meetings this weekend as OTPP continues to pour a hefty $24.8 billion of its $170 billion in total retirement holdings into dirty oil, coal and natural gas projects more
Fast-food warning: your takeout is leaching banned chemicals
New study by the Environmental Working Group in the U.S. found that a third of grease-repelling takeout wrappers and boxes from 27 fast-food chains contained PFCs more
Golfers spend more time exposed to harmful pesticides than the average person.
Cancer link on the links?
Environmental filmmaker Andrew Nisker's new documentary Dad and the Dandelions explores the connection between golf and cancer on CBC's The Nature of Things more
Adria Vasil
Who's killing the electric car?
The future for plug-ins and concept cars is here, but just as curiosity is starting to translate into sales in Canada, car and truck brands stateside want the EPA to roll back Obama-era emissions standards more
Is BC’s carbon tax really revenue neutral?
Conservative think-tank Fraser Institute says the province's carbon tax plan is failing to live up to claims it's revenue neutral; enviros say they’re missing the point more
Edward Burtynsky
Resource extraction and climate change leaving irreversible scars on the planet
Photographer Ed Burtynsky's latest documentary offers unnerving look on the enormous and irreversible ways that human activity is literally reshaping Earth more