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Climate Solutions Reporting

 Climate Solutions Reporting Project produces written stories, podcasts, and newsletters about Canada's action and inaction in fighting global heating, as well as the impact of environmental degradation and solutions on people and communities. We offer these stories free of charge thanks to supporters and collaborators, including individual philanthropists and foundations.  Read more about the project here.  

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Ontario teens invent robot to help protect coastlines

When Stefan Teodorescu’s aunt returned from a trip to the Pacific islands, one memory stuck with her: she described for Teodorescu the labour-intensive process of volunteers manually planting mangrove seeds to combat coastal erosion. The repetitive nature of the task, combined with the role mangroves play in climate adaptation, inspired Teodorescu to find a way to automate the process.

Churchill at a Crossroads: A traditional way of life clashes with 'last chance tourism'

The encounter between Mamgark and the tourists is where the real and practical world of the North confronts an idealized and romanticized Arctic. It’s an imaginary Arctic, part of an image sold for southerners’ consumption. That tension is underlined by an increasingly common phrase: “last chance tourism." This phrase refers to the threats posed by the rapid ebbs and flows of the Anthropocene. As for Churchill, the term could mean a tourist’s last opportunity to see the Arctic as it is now, before its iconic wildlife is gone, a relic of a colder era.

One small solar panel started big East Coast dreams for energy self-sufficiency

Drew Bernard, the ambitious young energy leader from Lennox Island First Nation, graduated from community college with a mission to make his nation energy self sufficient. Now, the community of about 400 people is working toward large-scale renewable projects, a revamped greenhouse and a major retrofit campaign on every house.

How Toronto could become a solar electricity powerhouse

More than half of Toronto’s electricity needs could be met with solar power generated from rooftops and parking lots, according to a new report by the Ontario Clean Air Alliance. The report by the clean energy advocacy group estimates the city could produce up to 12 terawatt-hours (TWh) of clean energy annually if its solar capacity is fully realized.

Cash for drink containers could help solve Ontario landfill overflow: MPP

Ontario is still dumping billions of bottles and cans while other provinces profit from a deposit-return recycling system. The province’s mounting waste problems has prompted Liberal MPP Mary-Margaret McMahon to introduce a private member’s bill calling for a deposit-return system for non-alcoholic beverage containers, aiming to reduce waste and pollution in one of the last provinces without such a program.