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Climate Legacy Presents Last Webinar of the Year!
Decarbonizing Canada’s Economy – How the Transition will Affect Workers At the beginning of 2023, the World Economic Forum reported that 12.7 million people now work in the global renewable energy sector. As Canada undertakes its own green transition, many new jobs may spring up here as well. Other jobs will be lost in the fossil fuel and other sectors. However, the nature and scope of the  transition is far from guaranteed, and we can’t …
Climate Legacy Presents: Taking a Bite out of the Climate Crisis through Regenerative Agriculture
Join Climate Legacy, The Group of 78, and Farmers for Climate Solutions on June 22nd at 7pm EDT for a webinar about regenerative agriculture! According to Agriculture Canada, 10 percent of Canada’s greenhouse gas emissions are from crop and livestock production. At the same time, agriculture can help slow climate change by harmlessly storing carbon in the soil. This means that Canadian farms have the potential to go from carbon emitters to significant carbon sinks. …
Climate Legacy & The Group of 78 Present: A climate and finance-focused webinar mini-series
Climate Legacy is pleased to announce that we are co-hosting two new climate and finance-focused webinars with The Group of 78.  Event 1: The Energy Transition Registration through Zeffy April 18th, 2pm Understanding the energy transition is the first step to identifying the role you can play in getting us there. Learn about what the shift to a zero-carbon economy will look like (including debunking common myths), understand the major milestones we need to meet in Canada, and get …
Bill S-243 would make banks accountable to Canada’s climate targets – here’s how you can support it
CAFA is a really exciting bill – in short, it would require major banks, crown corporations, and other federally regulated…
Read G78 and SCAN!’s Submissions to the National Adaptation Strategy Consultation
When the National Adaptation Strategy began consulting Canadians, we knew it would be a once in a generation opportunity…
We Know We Need Green Transit Solutions. But How Do We Implement Them? The E-bike Presents A Way Forward
There’s nothing intuitive about how we solve the problem of gas-powered car dependence in Canada, especially when you think beyond the young, the able and, perhaps most importantly, the fearless.
Interview of the Month: Can We Get Plastics Out of Healthcare?
It’s malleable, it’s light, it’s cheap, and it lasts a really really long time.   It’s plastic. A miracle invention, that, according to Laurie Houston–a dentist trying to get single-use plastics out of health care—it has been abused.   “If healthcare were a country, it would be the fifth worst polluter in the world,” said Laurie.   The relationship between climate change and our health has gotten more attention in recent years, particularly in the wake of devastating …
Canada’s Energy Systems Part 2: Solutions and Barriers to Breaking our Energy Addiction
Last month, we dove into Canada’s energy systems, what we export, what we use to heat our houses, and who the biggest GHG emitters are that we need to target.   This month, we’ll look at the many promising ways renewables can help transition us from harmful energy sources and models for using less energy generally.   The Renewables Reality According to the IPCC, the cost of electricity from renewables and batteries has come down so quickly …
Canada’s Energy Systems Part 1: Our Energy Addiction
It has never been clearer what we need to do to save the planet and ourselves. As the latest IPCC report has shown, we need radical and transformative policies aimed at de-carbonizing our economy and develop adaptation initiatives to avoid the worst climate catastrophes.   The sticking point is also clearer than ever. We use fossil fuels for energy. And Canada is an energy addict. Is there a way to wean ourselves off the cause of …
All About Compost Part 2: Public Composting
Last month, we have delved into the wild world of composting on your own—either with a backyard compost pile or an indoor option.   Photo by Sigmund on Unsplash And we discussed a pilot project going on across Canada, back by federal funding, that provides subsidized Food Cyclers to residents in (so far) rural areas that have no public composting service.   If this got you thinking, “why don’t these regions have public composting programs?” then you’re not alone. We …