Wednesday, April 16, 2025
Environment Journal is inviting municipal managers from coast to coast to coast to tell us their stories, share their environmental plans, confide their waste management…
The annual Brownie Awards recognize the innovative efforts of professionals who rehabilitate sites that were once contaminated, underutilized, and undeveloped by remaking them into productive residential…
New data indicates that moving toward a more circular economy for plastics in Canada could reduce carbon emissions by 1.8 megatonnes annually, generate billions of…
SPONSORED STORY Climate mitigation. Carbon capture. Blue hydrogen. Green. Despite buzzwords galore, it all points to something with meaning—by working together, we’re navigating big changes…
An increasing number of Canadians are making efforts to reduce waste and manage it efficiently but it’s not nearly enough — and digital product consumption…
Environmental experts around the globe have pointed out that the window to reverse climate change is growing smaller each day. Tick tock…the planet’s countdown clock…
I always liked getting outdoors as much as possible, but I didn’t know it was changing or shaping me in any way. I suppose from…
Decisions made today at every level of government and civil society will determine the future of summer holidays and day trips to local lakes in…
The problem of plastic pollution is gaining increasing attention from the media, from politicians, from scientists, from environmentalists, and, hopefully, from the public. However, unlike…
At the age of 10, a phone was dropped into my hand, and we became fast friends. Now that I’m 18, I feel as if…
Extreme weather conditions are driving the risk of major wildfires globally. Last summer the small town of Lytton, British Columbia faced three consecutive days of…
Whether it is transit lines, highway construction, or pipelines, new infrastructure projects in Ontario are being proposed daily and they are essential to keeping communities…
What happens to organic waste in Canada? With both aerobic and anaerobic digestion, the final product — compost — is sometimes sold to farms, plant…
New regulations on the handling of excess soil may have a big impact on the construction and environment industries in British Columbia. With these changes…
Stéphane Dallaire remembers clearly the Saturday night in September 2019 when Hurricane Dorian hit Cap-Pelé. The CAO and clerk of the small francophone village 46…
There’s an important task in the environment industry that consumes a significant amount of time and resources but is seldom discussed: report writing. Environmental reports provide…
Canada’s record on contaminated sites cleanups has been controversial at times. The notorious Sydney Tar Ponds in Nova Scotia comes to mind. However, it has…
We’ve all read about high profile, complex environmental cases, usually after the decision is released. Ever wonder how an environmental case is forged and defended…
Calling Julian Boyle the godfather of PACE in Canada wouldn’t be an overstatement — but it might be selling him short. PACE (Property Assessed Clean…
Air pollutants know no borders. They can traverse any geopolitical or internationally recognized boundary without consequence. The physical environment, atmosphere, human health, and relationships between…
When you’re trying to change the world, it makes sense to name yourself after the herald of new beginnings. Eos is the Goddess of the…
ESG is everywhere and nowhere. It has become a proxy for sustainability, and data-gathering and reporting has become a proxy for performance. Many companies (and…
By Brett Goodwin Canada has an ambitious emissions reduction agenda. Lowering greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 40-45 per cent relative to 2005 levels by 2030…
By Neil Sahota Many are concerned about the increasingly brutal wildfires burning every year along the West Coast in British Columbia down to California. The…