Kathryn Aitken

Pour protéger la biodiversité, il faut du courage, de la cohérence et des actions concrètes Le Plan Nature 2030, malgré ses 14 cibles, risque de ne rester qu’une promesse vide.

Pour protéger la biodiversité, il faut du courage, de la cohérence et des actions concrètes www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

Canadian fossil fuel execs push feds for Trump-style emergency powers

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March 18th Climate Cafe - This session of the climate café will be about degrowth – what it is, how it differs from an economic recession and how it could lead to a better life for all.

"we are witnessing an airport preparing to destroy one of the few high-quality natural habitats remaining on the island of Montreal for the monarch butterfly, an endangered species whose population has declined by 85 to 95 per cent.” Katherine Collin

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Where the Wild Things Were: Addressing the Disappearance of Wild Nature UPCOMING EVENT: February 13, 2025 • 11:00am US Pacific The world’s ecosystems are in perilous decline, with many on the brink of collapse. This is due in large part to a massive loss of wild nature—wh...

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YouTube video by Kate & Anna McGarrigle - Topic Bon Voyage (feat. Jane McGarrigle)

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Jane McGarrigle: April 26, 1941 - January 24, 2025
“This recording from the McGarrigle Hour has Jane singing lead vocal.” Patrick John Parker

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ART: As the Crow Flies by Jo Grundy

Is the Liberals climate plan built on quicksand? A year end interview with Steven Guilbeault In a year end interview with Canada's National Observer, Environment and Climate Change Minister Steven Guilbeault acknowledges the tough political headwinds his government is facing as he tries to ge...

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YouTube video by The Nature of Things He created a hummingbird paradise in his backyard

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Why Are Quebec's Wetlands Disappearing? – The Rover In Montreal, where 80 per cent of wetlands have disappeared, locals are fighting to make Quebec enforce its own environmental laws.

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By Design, not Disaster: Gaya Herrington on Business and the Limits to Growth www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

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Growth, Degrowth, and Green Growth: A Conversation with Peter Victor www.resilience.org/stories/2024...

Quebec’s budgetary update is starving food banks, organizations charge Tight budgets mean hungry people are turned away, says the general director of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce community food centre The Depot.

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‘The system is the problem, not people’: how a radical food group spread round the world Incredible Edible’s guerrilla gardening movement encourages people to take food-growing – and more – into their own hands

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Honour to Senator Murray Sinclair As the Chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, Senator Murray Sinclair was a key figure in raising global awareness of the atrocities of Canada’s residential school system. …

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Murray Sinclair and his legacy | Radio Noon Quebec with Shawn Apel | Live Radio | CBC Listen He led the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, was a judge, a senator, and much more. He died this week

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and then there is the not insignificant detail of drawing down the carbon that is already up there.

Climate Cafe, Tuesday, Nov. 19th at 7 p.m. at the chalet in NDG Park, Topic: Incredible Edibles food to share gardens, what's next?

Goals
1. Understand ecosystems and how humans interact with them.
2. Discover the major concepts related to the erosion of biodiversity according to the Intergovernmental Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES).
3. Share and think about solutions to put in place.

Very much enjoyed attending a Biodiversity Fresk facilitated by Professor Emma Despland at Concordia. Fresks are a new, interactive, fun way to learn together about pressing environmental issues.