EcoWest News, March 18, 2025
This week’s highlights in EcoWest News: 1) Farming challenges and opportunities, 2) Benefits of industrial carbon pricing, 3) Recovering grasslands, and 4) Air dry your clothes and save money
EcoWest News, March 11, 2025
This week’s top stories in EcoWest News: monitoring badgers, connecting climate change and social work, a carbon-neutral community, and a fish doorbell
Community Leaders & Books: February 2025
Books and community leaders: from Indigenous farming, wetlands, and waste reduction to snails, owls, sports, and volcanoes
EcoWest News, March 4, 2025
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
EcoWest News, February 25, 2025
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
Falling in Love with Plants in Winter
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, February 18, 2025
EcoWest News highlights: Increasing Canada’s energy efficiency and competitivity, biodiversity solutions for municipalities, promoting insects, peatlands, and dead trees
EcoWest News, February 11, 2025
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
Community Leaders & Books: January 2025
Books and community leaders: from energy justice, owls and raptors, migratory seabirds, rivers and metals, to urban nature
EcoWest News, February 4, 2024
EcoWest News Highlights: Enhancing sustainable agriculture, speaking out about soccer’s environmental impact, and celebrating individual efforts to protect polar bears, glaciers, and snails