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Fixing Food Waste

Feb 06 2015 | IN Waste | BY Genevieve Fullan

A significant portion of food waste occurs before it even makes it into your fridge.

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Sage Advice

Sep 2013 | IN Night 39.5 | BY Green Living Online

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6 tips for cultivating herbs indoors.

Nish Dish: Nourishing the Community

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Syerra Turry

"What's the one thing everybody in this world shares? Their food. It brings people together."

Minjimendan, Garden of Remembering

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Andrew Judge Syerra Turry

Mkomosé (Bearwalker) Dr. Andrew Judge presents the Indigenous foods garden, a project rooted in Indigenous philosophy and land-based sustainability practices.

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The Green New Deal: Our Best Chance on Climate

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

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The 'Green New Deal' addresses today’s two most urgent problems simultaneously: climate change and rising inequality.

Is that shark on my fork?

Oct 17 2018 | IN Water | BY Julie Andersen

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Our land as a sponge that can hold no more

Oct 14 2018 | IN Water | BY Braydon Black

Researchers from the Université de Montréal have identified a tipping point at which land can no longer retain phosphorous. Odds are good we've passed that point.

Coffee farmers struggle to adapt to Colombia’s changing climate

Aug 24 2018 | IN Food | BY Jessica Eise, Natalie White

Deep in the Andes Mountains, where growing coffee is a multi-billion business, the creeping impacts of global warming are threatening a way of life.

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The rise of the conscious carnivore

Aug 07 2018 | IN Health | BY Sylvain Charlebois

More and more Canadians under 35 are seeking out plant-based alternatives to meat. What the trend means for Canadian diets and meat producers.

LEDs on display at Rabba. (Photo provided by Rabba Fine Foods.)

Rabba makes switch to LEDs as part of broad shift to energy efficiency

Jul 18 2018 | IN Responsible Business | BY Darcy Higgins

Rick Rabba of Rabba Fine Foods finds solace (and savings) in energy retrofits.

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