You’ve dropped your dinner on your lap. Will natural stain-busters without dodgy chems do the trick? We rate your options. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

This funny, moving climate memoir is the “Eat, Pray, Love for the climate era” ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

While NDP leader Tom Mulcair was getting slammed from all sides last week for his soft support of Trans-Canada’s Energy East pipeline, Ontario’s energy regulator, the Ontario Energy Board, issued a report saying the $12 billion oil sands pipeline isn’t worth the environmental risk. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Bypassing beef will lighten your carbon footprint (and your karma), but there’s still a lot of crap hiding in most veggie burgers. How do your faves stack up? Plus ideas for makin’ em yourself. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

After years of being shut out of the conversation, environmental issues were front and centre at the first federal leaders’ debate on Thursday, August 6. A full quarter of the face-off was dedicated to pipeline politics, energy issues and climate change. Here’s how the leaders fared. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

After years of being shut out of the conversation, environmental issues were front and centre at the first federal leaders’ debate on Thursday, August 6. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

For all those spending time off the beaten path this season, you might want to think twice before you burn evidence of your bathroom breaks. A cyclist riding through Idaho’s Boise Foothills sparked a 40-hectare forest fire last… ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

#ShellNo protestors continue to fight for the Arctic environment ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Cold-pressed, fresh, 100% pure and never from concentrate – the juice market is overflowing with claims. What do they really mean, and who’s got the greenest juice of all? ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Just in time for an election, the Harper government declares the popular bodycare ingredient toxic. But will they actually take it off shelves? Not off history repeats itself. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

For all those spending time off the beaten path this season, you might want to think twice before you burn evidence of your bathroom breaks. A cyclist riding through Idaho’s Boise Foothills sparked a 40-hectare forest fire last month after burning his toilet paper in a ravine. Best to bury it, or better still, as… ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Just in time for an election, the Harper government declares the popular face wash ingredient toxic. But will they do anything to get it off of store shelves? ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Cold-pressed, fresh, 100% pure and never from concentrate – the juice market is overflowing with claims. What do they really mean, and who’s got the greenest juice of all? ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

One of the world’s most renowned climate scientists, James Hansen, has just dropped a bomb on climate change forecasts. In a new study, the former director of NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies says that the popular global warming target of 2°C isn’t the safety cushion we think it is and could cause a catastrophic rise… ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Mandatory car seats save lives, but which are the cleanest and greenest? For its recent study, Hidden Passengers (published at healthystuff.org), the Michigan-based non-profit Ecology Center tested 15 and found 73 per cent contained hazardous flame retardants. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

The province says this summer’s accident has been cleaned up, but Toronto Wildlife Centre and pipelines foes reps have lingering concerns ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Turns out having 10 more trees on a city block, improves health perception in a way that’s comparable to living in a tonier neighbourhood and being nearly a decade younger. ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Fuzzy armpits and shaggy beards may be all over Instagram, but if you’re still a shaver, which creams and gels are the smoothest on your conscience? ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

As 5 million litres of bitumen, water and sand gushed from a leaky new pipeline in northern Alberta last week, Canada’s premiers were being slammed for putting out a new national energy strategy that prioritizes pipelines over the planet… ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Former vice president prepares an army of environmental leaders for the crusade against climate change at the Climate Reality Project leadership training in Toronto last week. I went and sat in on it… ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸

Summit of The Americas attempts to fill climate-action void across the continent, but any gains could be washed away by tar sands expansion ◂ReadPreviousNext Post▸