Books and community leaders: from Indigenous farming, wetlands, and waste reduction to snails, owls, sports, and volcanoes

Highlights from EcoWest News, March 4: 1) Endangering human health - flowers, fire retardants, oil & gas wells; 2) Green roofs + solar; 3) Ants, mountain goats, and polar bears

This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: 1) An energy drink for sandpipers; 2) Crowdfunding support for global rewilding; 3) Throwaway homewares; and 4) A 3-step framework for action

Winter is the perfect occasion to admire the plant life that surrounds us – from the fire engine red stems of a dogwood to bright white snowberries and neon yellow lichen

EcoWest News highlights: Increasing Canada’s energy efficiency and competitivity, biodiversity solutions for municipalities, promoting insects, peatlands, and dead trees

Environmental news highlights for Western Canada: The dangers of building new homes in high-risk zones, legal protection for the night sky, abolishing the right to demolition, and prioritizing water

Books and community leaders: from energy justice, owls and raptors, migratory seabirds, rivers and metals, to urban nature

EcoWest News Highlights: Enhancing sustainable agriculture, speaking out about soccer’s environmental impact, and celebrating individual efforts to protect polar bears, glaciers, and snails

EcoWest News highlights: Renewed interest in coal in Alberta and Saskatchewan, a rewards program to conserve grassland birds and their habitat, reducing construction waste, and a salamander road crossing success story

A Little Queer Natural History by Josh L. Davis illustrates the tremendous variety of reproductive options and sexual behaviours of creatures as varied as yew trees, parrotfish, giraffes, and bighorn sheep