Canada


Canada community action

Sustainability initiatives

Local sustainability initiatives

Please see our Local communities in Canada pages, where of course you can share any more information you may have about local sustainability initiatives.

Community involvement

  • Every One Every Day Kjipuktuk/Halifax, added 15:16, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Participatory Canada, added 15:18, 23 February 2021 (UTC)
  • Strong Towns "supports thousands of people across the United States and Canada who are advocating for a radically new way of thinking about the way we build our world. Strong Towns is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our work is performed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. Please share with others to use for good." added 16:00, 30 November 2020 (UTC)

Climate action

Energy Action Coalition, coalition of 50 youth-led environmental and social justice groups coordinating on state, regional, and national levels in the United States and Canada. Wikipedia category: Climate change in Canada

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Canada People’s Climate Plan

Biodiversity

Naturewatch: A Canadian Phenology project

Community currencies activism

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Commons Currency Project, Imagining a Great Lakes Commons Currency

Community energy

Delivering Community Power, Canadian Union of Postal Workers plan to turn every post office in Canada into a hub for a just green transition. [1]

Cycling activism

Canada Bikes, the national voice for commuter, touring and recreational cycling - Critical Mass bicycle rides in Canada

Environment quality

FixMyStreet Canada

Ethical consumerism

The Buy Nothing Day site through the Adbusters Media Foundation - Fairtrade settlements in Canada

Food activism

Face Your Farmer on pinterest - Open Food Network, Canada - Solar cooking resources in Canada - Wikipedia category: Food markets in Canada

Hunters' and Trappers' Committee in Aklavik, Northwest Territories

For thousands of years, Inuit communities in far northern Canada lived seminomadically, surviving off of whatever wild game they could hunt. But starting in the mid-20th century, climate change, colonialism, and economic changes had a devastating impact on people in places like Aklavik. Caribou herds shrank and migration patterns changed. The Inuit were forcibly resettled in prefabricated towns and their sled dogs culled by authorities. As demand for seal and fox furs fell and resettlement accelerated, hunters were forced into employment or into nine-to-five jobs, reducing both time and money for hunting.

With fewer hunters, food had to be flown in at exorbitant prices — as much as $38 for a bag of grapes that would cost only a few dollars in the south. As a result, the Aklavik Hunters' and Trappers' Committee and several other groups across the Arctic have established community fridges, where hunters or people who have been fishing drop off surplus meat. The hunters are reimbursed for certain fees and the food is distributed to people in need, following a centuries-old Inuit tradition of delivering one's surplus catch to the elderly and isolated. Canada's largest Inuit advocacy group, the Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami, has launched a food security mapping project to track similar initiatives across the Arctic. [2] Aklavik Hunters and Trappers Committee – Community Harvesters, itk.ca

Reduce, reuse, repair and recycle

PAREdown

Sharing

Halifax Tool Library

Halifax Tool Library (HTL), is a tool lending library based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. Members pay an annual subscription and may borrow specialized tools for home repair, maintenance, building projects, community projects, gardening and landscaping. The HTL is a Non Profit community organization. The HTL offers standard, Student/Low-Income option, and organizational memberships to non-profits and small businesses. The HTL is supported by Dalhousie University student union, Ecology Action Centre, Parker Street food & furniture bank, Forest Friend, Bike Again, North Brewing Company, Catalyst, Fusion HFX, Deiter's tool and Saw. W

Canadian Cohousing Network - Canadian Senior Cohousing

Urban sustainability

8-80 Cities, Canadian based non-profit organization with an international outlook, promote walking and bicycling as activities and urban parks, trails and other public spaces as great places for ALL.

Depave Paradise

RAIN, urban stormwater program designed by Green Communities Canada to maximize community engagement and action.

Resources

Apps for sustainability

Apps for Climate Action Contest winners, September 16, 2010

Commons

Great Lakes Commons, a grassroots effort to establish the Great Lakes as a thriving, living commons — shared and sacred waters that we all protect in perpetuity.

Ecojustice Canada, Canadian non-profit environmental law organization that provides funding to lawyers to use litigation to defend and protect the environment. W

Video

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News and comment

2020

Tomorrow Today Streets, Creating essential micro-infrastructure for post Covid 19 neighbourhoods, TessyBritton [3] The article includes news of projects in Canada (Halifax, Montreal, Toronto and Edmonton). May 30 ...Barking and Dagenham

Canada’s libraries step up to help vulnerable people during pandemic [4] Apr 22

2018

Climate change talks lead to heightened pledge to cut emissions. [5] EU, Canada, New Zealand and developing countries to keep global warming below 1.5C. Dec 12 ...Climate news 2018

Empowering Canada's Indigenous communities through coworking, Nov 12 [6]

2017

A Toolkit for Establishing a Great Lakes Commons, Sep 18 [7]

7 Inspiring Ways Canadians Are Sharing to Tackle Food Insecurity, Jun 28 [8]

This beer kills pipelines, Jun 7 [9]

Meet the First Nation Above the Arctic Circle That Just Went Solar, Mar 28 [10]

A How-To Manual For Growing A Community, Mar 20 [11]

2016

Health Canada proposes ban on pesticide linked to bee deaths, Nov 24 [12]

Plastic microbeads will be banned in Canada, effective mid-2018, Nov 4 [13]

Canada's National Parks will be free to all visitors in 2017, January 11 [14]

2015

Canada shocks COP21 with big new climate goal, December 7 [15]

The Leap Manifesto: A Call for Caring for the Earth and One Another, September 15 [16]

2014

High-volume fracking to be banned in Nova Scotia, September 3 [17]

Canada should be doing more to fight income inequality, March 17 [18]

Events

2014

June 7 100in1day, transform your city (Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Halifax)

May 26 Bike Day in Canada is about bringing together the public, cycling organizations and members of all three levels of government across Canada, to ride on the same day. The day is dedicated to highlighting the importance of cycling in Canada as a healthy, affordable and environmentally friendly form of physical activity, transportation and tourism. [19]

Campaigns

Local communities in Canada


  • Wikipedia: Canada, Environment of Canada, Poverty in Canada

Wikipedia categories: Environment of Canada, Environmental issues in Canada‎

References

  1. ↑ The Alternative UK, Feb 12, 2019
  2. ↑ @Shareable
  3. ↑ medium.com
  4. ↑ @shareable
  5. ↑ The Guardian
  6. ↑ Shareable
  7. ↑ Shareable
  8. ↑ Shareable
  9. ↑ Transition Network
  10. ↑ desmog.ca
  11. ↑ slowmoney.org
  12. ↑ BBC News
  13. ↑ globalnews.ca
  14. ↑ treehugger.com
  15. ↑ nationalobserver.com
  16. ↑ Common Dreams
  17. ↑ CBC News
  18. ↑ montrealgazette.com
  19. ↑ Canada Bikes media release, April 15, 2014
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