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.

534 Articles

Double double or double trouble? Toronto’s reusable cup bylaw

Lugging around a reusable mug to help reduce waste usually feels like a worthwhile habit. But it seemed a bit pointless to me and other patrons at a few Toronto fast food outlets recently.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

April 4th 2024

Inventive intervention for the climate

Canadian company Planetary Technologies turns to bold new ideas to tackle ocean acidity.

Scott Stoneman

April 4th 2024

Treehouse Village: Eco-housing and energy savings

A closer look at the technology behind Bridgewater’s energy-efficient co-housing community.

Philip Moscovitch

April 3rd 2024

Plan for surge in EV buses and trucks heading into overdrive

To steer the country’s heavy-duty transportation sector away from gas and diesel to non-emitting trucks and buses, Canada needs a robust network of charging and hydrogen fuelling stations.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

April 3rd 2024

How building performance standards could help green up the sector

A new report released by Efficiency Canada notes that voluntary measures used by individuals and some municipalities to reduce building emissions have been unsuccessful. It suggests a more effective approach would involve implementing mandatory building performance standards in combination with support from the federal government.

Cloe Logan

April 3rd 2024

Family business commits to climate solutions

As president of Armour Valve, Liz McBeth led the company to recognize it exists to enable an energy and industrial landscape that ensures prosperity for future generations and the planet.

Opinion

Youth climate action

April 1st 2024

Human books talk climate

A series of unique HalifACT events provide an opportunity to chat about climate-related topics with the walking, talking “book” of your choice.

Joy Samuel

March 28th 2024

U of T schools the world by cutting emissions in half

Called Project Leap, it is believed to be the largest sustainability effort in the higher education sector in Canada. Once completed, the project will halve carbon emissions — calculated at 91,000 tonnes last year — on St. George campus by 2027.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

March 27th 2024

the Storm on the sea of Galilee by Rembrandt van rijn

CO2 jumped by record amount last year

Despite decades of global efforts to prevent a full-blown climate crisis, the primary driver of it — CO2 — continues to pile up in our atmosphere at an accelerating rate.

Race Against Climate Change

Barry Saxifrage

March 27th 2024

The art of youth climate activism

Finnegan Brown, 16, uses art and political action to protect our climate. A high school student from Sooke, B.C., Brown received a 2023 I-SEA Youth Climate Activism Award.

Opinion

Youth climate action

March 25th 2024

Equity in the energy game

Giving African Nova Scotian, Black and Indigenous peoples a place at the table in the fight against climate change.

Jon Tattrie

March 25th 2024

Hope blooms and its moveable feast

Since 2015, Hope Blooms has grown to include not only the original working garden where local kids still work every summer and produce their famous salad dressing, but also a fair food community farmers’ market and many other initiatives.

Pam Sullivan

March 22nd 2024

Cutting our single-use habit, one reusable mug at a time

Quentin de Becker doesn't go anywhere without his coffee travel mug. As a member of an environmental advocacy group, it would be a bad look to order coffee in a disposable cup. But it wasn't always easy to persuade cafes and restaurants to fill his mug.

Abdul Matin Sarfraz

March 21st 2024

Climate action heads to the Junos with Music Declares Emergency

Music Declares Emergency is a U.K.-based international not-for-profit corporation comprising musicians, music industry professionals and organizations that have banded together to call for immediate government action on climate change.

Elizabeth Peirce

March 21st 2024

What to feed farmed salmon?

On land fish farming is presented as an alternative to growing salmon in the ocean. Proponents point to it as a viable alternative since there is no contact between the farmed fish and wild species. However, salmon farmed in the ocean and on land face a mutual dilemma: the ecological toll of fish feed. A Nova Scotia company is working to change that.

Cloe Logan

March 18th 2024