10 Questions with December’s Local Hero, Jocelyn Marsh
Today, we’d like to highlight Jocelyn Marsh, founder of the Love Our Oceans Project and this month’s #LocalHero! The new project aims to reduce plastic usage within the veterinary industry ...
Cleaning Up Our Oceans Plastic
Let’s take a look at some of the amazing initiatives that are currently helping to tackle the plastic problem in our oceans and waterways. The Ocean Cleanup Image from: ...
10 Questions with November’s #LocalHero, Minaëlle Green
Today, we’d like to highlight Minaëlle Green, co-founder of the University of Ottawa’s Climate Crisis Coalition and this month’s #LocalHero! The new coalition aims to create awareness of the climate ...
Making sense of green labels
Compostable, biodegradable and bioplastics. All these green terms are becoming so integrated into our lifestyle and are often used interchangeably, but do we actually know what they mean? More importantly, ...
Our Convenience Culture Is Killing Our Oceans
With takeout options in abundance and food delivery at the touch of our fingertips, we are using more and more single use items. Plastic items from take-out food and beverages ...
Putting Pollution on the Map – Eyesea
Today, we have a fantastic organization we’d love to spotlight, one that is making waves across the world in the fight to reduce plastic pollution, Eyesea. In our first #SaturdaySpotlight ...
10 Questions with October’s #LocalHero, Amy Liebenberg
This month’s #LocalHero is Amy Liebenberg, Executive Director of The Squamish Arts Council and one of the leaders of the new environmental art campaign: Diving In: The Art of Cleaning ...
How Can We Reduce Our Plastic Footprint Whilst Travelling?
With Thanksgiving just around the corner and the world slowly opening up again, more and more of us will be travelling farther afield this holiday period and taking a much ...
Just How Much Plastic Is In Our Oceans?
Plastic pollution is the most widespread problem affecting the marine environment, which isn’t that surprising since annual plastic production has surpassed most other man-made materials. As most of us will ...