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Help Make Waves This Plastic Free July

Every July, millions of people around the world take part in Plastic Free July, a global movement that challenges us to rethink our plastic use. It’s not just about skipping a straw or bringing your own bag, it’s about making meaningful changes that reduce plastic waste in our daily lives and communities.

Help Make Waves This Plastic Free July
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Small Stewards: Teaching Kids to Love and ...

Summer is a season of sunshine, play, and unfortunately, excessive water use. As temperatures climb, our reliance on water increases, from watering lawns and filling pools to cooling off with long showers. While these are natural parts of summer life, they also offer an excellent opportunity to teach the next generation about one of the planet’s most precious resources: water.

Small Stewards: Teaching Kids to Love and Protect Water this Summer
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World Ocean Day: Canada’s Unique Place in the ...

As World Ocean Day approaches (Sunday, June 8, 2025), Canadians have a unique opportunity to reflect on the incredible role oceans play in our daily lives and the health of the planet. For Canada, whose geography is defined by its extensive marine borders, this day holds exceptional significance. Bordered by the Pacific, Arctic, and Atlantic Oceans, and with over 243,000 kilometres of coastline, the longest of any country, Canada's environment, economy, and cultural identity are deeply entwined with the health of its marine ecosystems.

World Ocean Day: Canada’s Unique Place in the Celebration
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Happy World Water Day!

Every March 22, the world celebrates water in all its myriad forms. This year’s World Water Day theme is Glacier Preservation and protecting our frozen water resources for future use. While this theme is important to life all over the world, here in Canada it is vital, as our country is home to the Canadian Arctic and the Rocky Mountains, both landscapes that rely heavily on the conservation of this frozen resource.

Happy World Water Day!
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Embodying Water

For the 2024/2025 academic year, the Cinema Studies department at the University of Toronto launched a new experiential learning course called Sensory Ecologies: Theory and Praxis in Environmental Studies. Led by Professor Nadine Chan, our class has explored how media helps us construct and understand the concept of environmental degradation. Through scholarly research, various forms of media, and even experimenting with making our own media projects, we have seen firsthand how important storytelling is in conceptualizing the environment, and stoking passion for climate justice.

Embodying Water

Canada Looks to Pass its First Environmental Racism Legislation

Canada Looks to Pass its First Environmental Racism Legislation

Canada appears poised to pass its first-ever legislation concerning environmental racism. Bill C-226, a private member’s bill introduced by former Green Party Leader Elizabeth May, passed its second reading in the House of Commons this week. Following the reading, Bill C-226 has been referred to the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development. This legislation is a successor to a Bill C-230 introduced in 2019 by then-Liberal MP Lenore Zann. Bill C-230 also made it through two readings but was lost when parliament dissolved with the 2021 election call.

Four traits that make Stan an impactful environmental leader

Four traits that make Stan an impactful environmental leader

One can’t talk about Stan without also speaking of his wife Mariam and their three beautiful and accomplished children. While Stan is the public face of his work and creations, Mariam is ever-present in his mind and heart, and they are equal partners in every plan and decision. Together they co-founded Ecologos and she served on the Board of Directors in the early years and fed many of those who served on the Design Team (our name for the core planning committee). I think it’s fair to borrow the description of another well-known spouse and acknowledge that she has been his “strength and stay” through their many years of marriage. So, in this sense, Ecologos is facing not one retirement, but two.

Stan's advocacy work for water and climate inspires me

Stan's advocacy work for water and climate inspires me

My time at Ecologos has been filled with joy, inspiration and community. The staff and volunteers are a unique community of people who share the values of interconnectedness, reciprocal relationships and the intrinsic human connection to nature. The vision behind Ecologos’ advocacy and work comes from Stan Gibson. It has been very impactful as a young professional to learn and be a part of the advocacy that Ecologos does through education, art and storytelling.

Purified Water on Tap

Purified Water on Tap

When I was a newly minted Certified Natural Health Practitioner, I started Anarres Apothecary as a social enterprise storefront, online and mail-order resource for anyone who wanted body care, DIY supplies and housewares that are Good For You and Good For The Earth. For me, holistic health does not mean merely the health of our individual minds, bodies and spirits, but also the health of the Earth and all of its inhabitants. That’s why, for a dozen years, I’ve been a fan of Water Docs…

A Chance Encounter Can Show You Just How Far Your Ripples Can Go

A Chance Encounter Can Show You Just How Far Your Ripples Can Go

In May 2017, my charity had a booth at the Canada-Wide Science Fair. People came by, I did some water testing with children, and it was an interesting event. Then, one man came by who was very excited to see our booth at the Science Fair. His name was Wilson, and the reason he was so excited to see our booth was that one of our water testing kits had been used by one of his students and that was the reason that student was at the fair.