What On Earth A non-profit geared to creating an environmental movement within the Canadian Muslim community has taken its work inside the classroom. The aim is to help students make connections between sustainable habits and their cultural values. Aim is to help students make connections between sustainable habits and theirContinue Reading
What On Earth25:29Ghosts in their fishing nets (an Overheated story) At the home James MacDonald shares with his wife and their two kids, it’s approaching dinnertime. His five-year-old son, Sye, is helping MacDonald open a can of salmon. As a citizen of the Ta’an Kwäch’än Council — one of severalContinue Reading
What On Earth The program helps people from vulnerable populations make purifiers that clean the air in their homes, and arms them with information about how to protect themselves in a changing climate. The DIY units cost less than $100 to make and help protect against the effects of wildfireContinue Reading
What On Earth6:44Make sweating sexy again Author and historian On Barak says that when talking about climate change, we should be thinking less about terms like global warming and more about how we experience heat. “The problem with the notion of global warming is that nobody really suffers from it.Continue Reading
What On Earth27:39Awkward! How to have that cringe convo about climate Conversations about climate change can get really uncomfortable, really quickly, whether they’re happening in a meeting room or at your family’s annual summer barbecue. It’s enough to make even those who are really concerned about the problem want to steerContinue Reading
The map on Ernie Tallio’s computer screen showed a tangled mess of red lines and dots. It was late September and Tallio, who manages the Guardian Watchmen program for the Nuxalk First Nation in Bella Coola, B.C., was demonstrating where his team worked the previous summer: travelling the maze ofContinue Reading
