Apps claiming to be more socially responsible than scandal-plagued Uber are popping up in Toronto. NOW’s Ecoholic columnist asks whether we’re being taken for a ride ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

The “priestess of waste-free living” can famously fit a year’s worth of trash into a single mason jar. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

As tears well up in my eyes, I tell the water that I hope the city will start taking better care of it ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Toronto-based activist journalist takes on corporate media’s (and her own) Donald Trump addiction, Trudeau’s arms build-up and how NDP leadership contenders are missing a Bernie Sanders-style opportunity ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Environmental group says Canada’s largest logging company is trying to axe it out of existence with $300 million lawsuit ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Greenhouse-gas-leaking towers setting us up for climate change fail ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Anticipating an increase in demand for clothing produced on domestic soil, the college is launching a grad program in sustainable practices ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Around the world this Earth Day, as a growing army of women stand up for a more sustainable planet, mainstream environmental groups are becoming more inclusively female ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Ecoholic columnist Adria Vasil explains why fashion’s latest eco boom is more than just another greenwashing bust. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Rabbit is turning up on more Toronto restaurant menus as the new “ethical” white meat of choice, but animal rights activists say there’s nothing humane about the way they’re treated by the industry ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

According to the Canada West Foundation, keeping the oil sands in the ground and stopping new pipelines “will actually increase greenhouse gas emissions” – wait, what? ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Research around atrazine has found endocrine-disrupting properties connected to hermaphrodite frogs, feminized fish and low sperm counts in humans living in agricultural areas ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Efforts are afoot to put divestment motions on the floor at teachers union meetings this weekend as OTPP continues to pour a hefty $24.8 billion of its $170 billion in total retirement holdings into dirty oil, coal and natural gas projects ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

New study by the Environmental Working Group in the U.S. found that a third of grease-repelling takeout wrappers and boxes from 27 fast-food chains contained PFCs ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Environmental filmmaker Andrew Nisker’s new documentary Dad and the Dandelions explores the connection between golf and cancer on CBC’s The Nature of Things ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

The future for plug-ins and concept cars is here, but just as curiosity is starting to translate into sales in Canada, car and truck brands stateside want the EPA to roll back Obama-era emissions standards ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Conservative think-tank Fraser Institute says the province’s carbon tax plan is failing to live up to claims it’s revenue neutral; enviros say they’re missing the point ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Fear not, friends, battle-hardened activists north of the 49th picked up some valuable lessons from fighting our press-hating, government-scientist-muzzling former prime minister ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

With Donald Trump calling for the renegotiation of NAFTA, the Council of Canadians says water is vulnerable to potential trade demands ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

In these increasingly polarized times, Zen types are pushing back against the presumption that places like Buddhist temples, yoga studios and mindfulness centres should be apolitical ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Outraged environmentalists and Indigenous groups vow to fight both pipelines in the courts and on the streets ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸