Sunday, April 20, 2025
Nature Canada recognizes environmental leadership
Nature Canada has recognized Bob Peart as the winner of the 2022 Douglas H. Pimlott Award, the organization’s highest honour for outstanding work in conservation.…
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Atura Power plans hydrogen feasibility study in Nanticoke
Atura Power has signed an agreement with Imperial to study the potential for hydrogen production in Nanticoke, Ontario. The study will focus on the commercial…
Book Review: Sustainable Business Handbook
Guidance on what it takes to support a claim of being a “sustainable business” is widely available but not always comprehensive or clear. A new…
Make your opinion matter in Environment Journal survey
Dear Reader, Here at Environment Journal we’re on a mission to deliver the right content, at the right time, on the right platform. In…
Call for Code challenge urges developers to create sustainable tech solutions
Call for Code Creator David Clark Cause, in partnership with founding partner IBM, United Nations Human Rights and the Linux Foundation, launched the 2022 Call for Code Global…
Time to invest in newer technologies like hydrogen
Every year in April we celebrate Earth Day and the birth of the environmental movement in 1970, which over the years has become the largest…
Public Policy Forum honours emerging environmental leader Autumn Peltier
Six exceptional Canadians are being honoured for their contributions to public policy and good governance by the Public Policy Forum at its Canada Growth Summit…
Coalition launches the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign
On April 27 at Queen’s Park, a broad coalition of more than 125 groups from across Ontario, representing more than 475,000 people, launched the Ontario…
Manitoba invests in cleaning up orphaned and abandoned mines
As part of Budget 2022: Recover Together, the Manitoba government is investing an additional $50.7 million to further accelerate clean up of orphaned and abandoned…
Alberta launches Clean Hydrogen Centre of Excellence
The Alberta government is investing $50 million to create the new Clean Hydrogen Centre of Excellence, which will drive innovation in the production, deployment and…
$300M for clean energy projects in Indigenous, rural and remote communities
Yesterday, at the First Nations Major Project Coalition’s Annual industry engagement event, Minister of Natural Resources Jonathan Wilkinson announced a $300 million investment toward capacity-building…
Greentec helps protect wildlife through e-waste recycling partnership
On a mission to reduce the environmental impact of e-waste on a global scale, Cambridge, Ontario-based Greentec, a certified tech lifecycle management company, recently announced…
Feds support ecosystem restoration on Toronto waterfront
Today, on Earth Day, the sun was shining and the birds were singing as Julie Dabrusin, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Natural Resources and…
Canadian credit unions implementing sustainable finance practices
The majority of Canadian consumers (69 per cent) expect companies to partake in solving sustainability issues and 61 per cent of Canadian consumers will pay…
Earth Day Canada 2022 theme is “Remedy Together”
Earth Day Canada’s 2022 campaign, under the theme “Remedy together,” recognizes those who live with eco-anxiety, a mental health issue affecting Canadians concerned about the…
NOVA Chemicals and Enerkem advance commercialization of chemical recycling tech
NOVA Chemicals Corporation and Enerkem Inc. are advancing their versatile and energy efficient chemical recycling technology to pilot stage in Edmonton, Alberta, thanks in part to…
Hydro-Québec export project with NYC receives green light
Regulators have given the green light to the $4.5 billion transmission line project that will deliver Canadian hydropower to New York City — a critical…
Investments for unique Ontario research facility to support healthy ecosystems
The Ontario government is investing $9.5 million to support vital research in the Experimental Lakes Area—the only freshwater research facility of its kind in the…
Making electric vehicles more affordable for Quebeckers
The Government of Canada has announced a plan to invest $547.5 million over four years to launch a new purchase incentive program for medium- and…
Breaking ground for Ontario’s first net zero community centre
Today, the City of Toronto broke ground for the new North East Scarborough Community Recreation & Child Care Centre. The centre, which is located south…
The soil sisters reveal results of survey on resource recovery
The United Nations Environment Programme has reported that Canadians waste 79 kilograms of household food, per capita, per year, for a total of 2.94 million…
What’s the true cost of electric versus gas vehicles?
With the new reality of record high gas prices combined with the increasing awareness about the impacts of climate change, more Canadians are considering the…
B.C. seeks public input on environmental protection from industrial pollution
To protect the environment and avoid costs to British Columbians, the province is inviting feedback on ways to ensure owners of large industrial projects pay…
Butts, food packaging and PPE top shoreline litter list
Single-use food and beverage items, personal protective equipment (PPE), and cigarette butts are among the most common types of litter found on Canadian shorelines, according…