By Hannah Muhajarine, Policy and Data Projects Manager, The Climate Reality Project Canada Do you know whether your municipality is on track to meet its emissions reduction targets? What about who is being most impacted in your community by extreme heat? Maybe you want to convince your government to build more bike lanes instead of investing in road expansion—how would you go about building your argument using evidence? The answer to all of the questions above involves data.

How the Sault Climate Hub is rewilding urban spaces and building community in Sault Ste. Marie Amid vanishing greenspace and growing ecological urgency, one grassroots project in Northern Ontario is planting hope and watching it grow. This spring, the Sault Climate Hub launched its first Little Forest at East View Public School in Sault Ste. Marie, kicking off a long-term community greening initiative that blends climate action with hands-on learning, Indigenous-informed ecol

By Linda Lara-Jacobo, Mikellena Nettos, Adrian Werner, Brent Elsey and Émilie Campbell-Renaud The Holidays are a time to get together, eat great food, build memories, and do all the wonderful things that make us feel warm and fuzzy inside. However, it is also a time when wasteful consumer behaviours tend to become exacerbated. To help inspire more sustainable Holiday habits, Climate Reality Leaders from across Canada have come together to prepare this guide to greening your H

By Grant Linney Late last month, I returned from six restorative days of canoeing in Killarney Provincial Park amidst fall colours, good weather and close friends. It reminded me of an Indigenous distinction between spending much-needed time in nature, in “what made you” versus our all-too-common experience of being distracted by the superficial world of “what you made”. As a career outdoor and environmental educator, I seek to expose people of all ages to the beauty, wonder

By Sydney Whiting Sydney Whiting is an environmental activist, Grade 12 student, and a leader within the Climate Hub of Southern Alberta (@climatehubsa). She cares about the intersection of government, youth, and environmental action, prompting her to pursue studies in political science in the fall. Despite the modest dip in greenhouse emissions due to the pandemic, Canadian communities 一 and our media channels 一 have been grappling with an endless stream of wildfires, flood

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Muriel Vincent, Communications and Social Media Manager The Climate Reality Project Canada Email: mvincent@climatereality.ca Cell: (514) 963-8405 MONTREAL, July 14th, 2021 The Climate Reality Project Canada is excited to announce the launch of its very first Campus Climate Action Summit this summer. As university students represent a key demographic at the forefront of climate activism, this Summit is bringing together a fellowship of 29 post

Originally Published by the Climate Reality Project (US) As efforts to tackle the climate crisis become ever-more urgent, finding new ways to ratchet down emissions are becoming more and more critical. Did you know that “under the sea / under the sea / down where it’s wetter” there is a nearly invisible ecosystem that spans the ocean floor from Greenland to New Guinea? Now, this ecosystem isn’t literally invisible, not by any stretch of the imagination. But figuratively … let

By Marinella Montanari Hello, and thanks for taking the time to read this article. My name is Marinella Montanari. I am a social entrepreneur, project designer, performing artist, and theatre educator. As a Climate Reality Leader, I was trained in Berlin and Los Angeles in 2018. In 2000, I had the great privilege of co-founding Jobel Group, an innovative art project that is my job, community, dream, and challenge. Climate Change is a sign of our contemporary world. Climate ch

An interview with Climate Reality Leader Grant Linney, Climate Reality Leader trained in 2010 Grant Linney is a career outdoor and environmental educator whose classrooms include forests, meadows, ponds and streams. He regales in sharing the life support systems of our planet with participants of all ages. He is also an avid outdoors person himself. Among other things, you can find him canoe tripping, sea kayaking, bike touring and hiking, all with photography gear in tow. We