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Five years after Superstorm Sandy left a path of destruction in its wake, New York City is “breaking the cycle” by “suing the culprits” according to this National Observer article. On January 10th

The EU is working on a plan to ensure that every piece of packaging on the continent is reusable or recyclable by 2030. Following China’s decision to ban imports of foreign recyclable material

What is the cost of inaction? Costly weather disasters have now cost the US a record $306 billion. Although it is difficult to definitively draw cause-effect relationships, “many scientific studies

I have previously blogged on Victoria and Nanaimo's leadership on reducing plastic in the waste stream and its urgency for the sake of the lungs of the planet—our oceans. The United Kingdom has just

Over the last decade I have spent a lot of time thinking about how to improve how we communicate our research to diverse publics, and get beyond the same old social bubles and filters. This article by

The Smart Prosperity Leader’s Initiative, a group of respected Canadian leaders from a range of sectors, recently launched their Let’s Stand Up for Nature campaign. As part of this initiative, they

As the New Year begins, we have some good news, big and small. The city of Victoria has adopted a bylaw banning businesses from offering single-use plastic bags to consumers starting July 1, 2018

"Little astronaut, where have you gone, and how is your song still torrenting on?"

—Robert McFarlane, Lark Spell, The Lost Words

Many words describing the natural world were sadly ‘culled’ from