Goal 13 – Climate Action Targets (which will be focused on in this website) and Article Content:
targets from https://sustainabledevelopment.un.org/sdg13:
13.2 “Integrate climate change measures into national policies, strategies and planning”
13.3 “Improve education, awareness-raising and human and institutional capacity on climate change mitigation, adaptation, impact reduction and early warning”
Food Waste Diversion – Lets Share Food
Food Loss and Waste (FLW) is a major problem in Canada. Second Harvest – Canada’s largest food rescue charitable organization – recently released a report entitled “The Avoidable Crisis of […]
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Nutrition and Biodiversity
Unhealthy diets contribute to 11 million deaths worldwide and about 47,000 deaths in Canada each year. Diet related deaths are the most important cause of mortality globally. In addition, the […]
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Nudging Towards Environmentally Friendly Options
Consider driving to work yourself every working day without ever fully investigating or coming to know of other easier options. Less stressful, environmentally friendly and health friendly options such as […]
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GDP Versus GPI
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is a metric used around the world to measure a country’s well-being but it misses its mark substantially. GDP is a measure of market throughput and […]
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Climate Change and Democracy
Recent research indicates that modern western democracies have problems addressing an existential threat – climate change. Although progress has been made more is needed to meet the Paris agreement target […]
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How Seagrass Can Solve Critical Environmental Problems
Did you know that the oceans absorb around 25% of the CO2 released into the atmosphere from human activities and this makes the oceans more acidic? This absorption of CO2 […]
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Let’s Choose Repair Instead of Replace
Technology products are thrown away and replaced often instead of repaired because manufacturers want to maximize their profits. They make it hard to repair by forcing consumers to go to […]
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Why We Need Digital Product Passports
Every product on our shopping shelves has important data (eg. environmental footprint, safety, health impacts, authenticity, etc.) tied to its existence. A Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a single point […]
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Construction, Renovation and Demolition Waste in Canada – The Problem and What We Can Do
Canada produces about 4 million tonnes of Construction, Renovation, and Demolition (CRD) waste every year. Examples of CRD waste materials include concrete, wood, metals, glass, and plastic. About 20% of […]
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The Importance of a Sharing Economy
The overconsumption of resources by humans needs to be addressed if we are to solve environmental challenges such as climate change and biodiversity loss. We currently have about 8 billion […]
