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Climate emotions and anxiety among young people in Canada: A national survey and call to action

Young people have a unique positionality in relation to the mental and emotional dimensions of climate change: they have contributed the least to the crisis, they are and will be disproportionately impacted, and they have limited opportunities and invaluable perspectives for influencing action. Evidence increasingly illustrates that young people are particularly vulnerable to climate distress […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on March 20, 2023

Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked

Renewable energy skeptics argue that because of their variability, wind and solar cannot be the foundation of a dependable electricity grid. But the expansion of renewables and new methods of energy management and storage can lead to a grid that is reliable and clean. As wind and solar power have become dramatically cheaper, and their […]

Posted by Ivan Martinovic on March 17, 2023

Eco-Bulevard, new suburban development

The proiect’s name, Eco-boulevard encapsulates the design’s fusion of industrial and natural elements. The whole proposal could be defined as an urban recycling operation consisting of the following actions: the insertion of an air tree-social dynamizer, over an existing urbanized space, the densification of the existing alignment of trees and the reduction and asymmetric arrangement of […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on March 11, 2023

Canada’s young people are filled with a sense of doom and gloom

Canada’s young people are filled with a sense of doom and gloom, not just about the planet’s climate change future, but also about their government’s lack of action in dealing with it. That’s according to a recent study from Lakehead University, in which researchers surveyed 1,000 people ages 16 to 25 across the country on […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on March 8, 2023

Voices of Resilience Project

Few days ago first draft of our Business Plan for Voices of Resilience Project was finished. Read bellow key points of the plan. Whole Business Plan is available here. Please let us know if you would like to get engaged and make your contribution to the Voices of Resilience Project. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on February 27, 2023

State of the North 2023 – Looking out to level up

• 1.5°C – dead or alive? The risks to transformational change from reaching and breaching the Paris Agreement goal • 30 years of Progressive Review: Reflecting on three decades of progressive politics • GreenGo: Unlocking an energy efficiency and clean heat revolution • Vacci-nation: A case study in health and prosperity Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on February 17, 2023

It’s inequality that kills

Canadian author and professor of climate justice cautiously hails loss and damage agreements at Cop27. Naomi Klein published her first book on the climate crisis, This Changes Everything, almost a decade ago. She was one of the organisers and authors of Canada’s Leap manifesto, a blueprint for a rapid and justice-based transition off fossil fuels. In […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on February 15, 2023

‘We create changemakers’: the new UK college dedicated to climate crisis

The lecture theatre was once a cowshed, the study centre is an old farmhouse living room and the classrooms are mostly outdoors: welcome to the newest higher educational college in Britain. The former farm that is Black Mountains College campus is a core part of an insurgent institution that is the first entirely dedicated to adapting […]

Posted by Cheryl Bradbee on February 12, 2023