Tuesday, May 6, 2025
Toronto Zoo makes learning about plastic pollution easy with new app
Learning about plastic might not be the first thing you would expect to take away from a visit to the Toronto Zoo. However, educating Zoo…
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Circular Economy Month launches new website to celebrate national growth
The Circular Innovation Council is celebrating the growth of Circular Economy Month by launching a new website and new content. The improved website will help educate…
Environmental Partnership: Pomerleau Strengthens Relations with Indigenous Peoples
For more than a decade, Pomerleau, one of Canada’s largest construction companies, has carried out around 30 construction projects located in Indigenous communities or in…
SoilFLO awarded Metrolinx contract to advance environmental sustainability
SoilFLO, the premier provider of innovative soil management software, announced a groundbreaking contract award from Metrolinx, the crown agency responsible for coordinating major transit initiatives…
Canada Plastics Pact releases five-year plan for circular ecosystem
Over 95 companies, governments, institutions, and NGOs that are part of the Canada Plastics Pact (CPP) have released an ambitious five-year action plan (2023 to…
Call for applications for projects to protect coastal communities
Coastal communities in Canada are experiencing the impacts of climate change, including sea level rise, coastal erosion and more extreme storms, flooding and wildfires. These communities face…
FCM’s Green Municipal Fund report signals progress in helping communities take climate action
Municipalities play an integral part in providing the solution to one of the biggest challenges of our time: achieving Canada’s climate change and sustainability targets.…
Companies and institutions adopting nature-related financial disclosures
The Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) is a group of 40 individuals from market service providers, financial institutions and corporate entities working together to…
Symposium provides forum to examine circular strategies for managing excess soils
Environment Journal’s Excess Soils Symposium was a sold-out success thanks to our engaged and enthusiastic excess soils community. The seventh annual symposium was held on…
New environment minister announced for Ontario: Andrea Khanjin
On September 22, Ontario Premier Doug Ford shuffled his cabinet, announcing a new environment minister for the province. David Piccini, the former Minister of the…
Ontario government reverses Greenbelt development decision
Ontario Premier Doug Ford is reversing his plan to open the protected Greenbelt lands for housing development, he announced September 21, after sustaining nearly a…
Stantec promotes North American technical leaders in environmental services
Global sustainable design and engineering firm Stantec has promoted 18 of its Environmental Services (ES) staff to the role of technical discipline leader (TDL) in…
Report offers solutions to overhaul project assessment process
A new report from the Canada West Foundation (CWF) offers recommendations to improve Canada’s major project assessment process and remain competitive in the global economy.…
Nova Scotians invited to shape future of environmental assessment process
The Province of Nova Scotia is inviting the public to provide their ideas, suggestions and solutions on how to improve the province’s environmental assessment process.…
Policy POV: Plastic pollution hotspots and circular solutions
When Ontario’s Blue Box household recycling initiative was launched in the 1980s it was lauded as being at least one of the major answers to…
Code Council launches initiative to improve building resiliency
In response to the continued demand for new solutions, the International Code Council has introduced the Building Capacity for Resilient and Sustainable Buildings initiative. This initiative…
Call for applications to support environmental entrepreneurship
British Columbia-based investment group Regenerative Capital Group (RCG) has recently launched their “CEO in Residence” cohort call for applications. Their goal is to show that people, planet,…
Envisioning an exciting new option for recovering electronics waste
A recent study from researchers at the University of Waterloo reveals that the amount of electronic waste (e-waste) in Canada has more than tripled in…
Environment Minister announces new Nature Champions Network
This week, from August 22 to 26, 2023, Canada is hosting the Seventh Assembly of the Global Environment Facility (GEF) in Vancouver, British Columbia. The…
Policy POV: How to validate your environmental claims and avoid greenwashing
The terms “greenwash” and “greenwashing” were reportedly first used by American ecologist Jay Westerveld in the mid-1980s to describe the practice of making invalid or…
New TSM subscription service: enhancing transparency for sustainable mining
As demand for minerals in clean energy tech rises, stakeholders seek transparency and sustainable commitments. Towards Sustainable Mining (TSM) has taken a significant step forward…
Survey says Canadian CEOs are prioritizing sustainability
IBM has released the results of a new global CEO study which polled more than 3,000 CEOs in over 30 countries on business priorities, challenges and opportunities.…
Evolving Environment: Contemplations from the lake house
Summer breeze makes me feel fine, sang Seals and Crofts. This classic song came on the radio while on the way home from last week’s…
Looking to add ESG tools to your professional skill set?
Organizations of all sizes are increasingly incorporating environment, social and governance (ESG) approaches into their operations. A new program at Seneca Polytechnic will train students…