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If You Want Better Climate Action in Your City, Start with the Data
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.
Apr 17 min read


GREENING THE FUTURE, ONE LITTLE FOREST AT A TIME
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
Jul 31, 20255 min read


A CLIMATE REALITY LEADERS' GUIDE TO GREENING YOUR HOLIDAYS
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
Dec 14, 20217 min read


EMPOWERING OUR ELECTED CLIMATE CHAMPIONS
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
Dec 6, 20213 min read


SUSTAINABLE INFRASTRUCTURE IN THE FACE OF THE CLIMATE CRISIS: COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHT
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
Aug 13, 20213 min read
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