Women Changing Cities
A new book has come out to celebrate Women Changing Cities for the better. Cities around the world are dealing with climate change, inequality, and an assortment of local issues…
Direct Action
It’s Toronto Climate Week!
Toronto Climate Week is back and you should be attending. The list of events has grown to include everything from AI clean tech to using discarded plastics to make crafts.…
Tiny Gardens Everywhere: Let’s Get Growing!
When times get tough it’s time to get gardening! Actually, even when times are easy it’s time to get gardening. Even a small plot of land can produce a lot…
Local Man Allowed to Keep Garden
Biodiversity loss is a large issue around the globe and there’s a small action that everyone can take to help biodiversity survive: grow native plants. Even a small plot of…
Civic Searchlight: A Tool to Fight Disinformation
Canada’s National Observer as seen that journalists are feeling the years of budgets cuts and the lack of institutional supports and decided to do something about it. The National Observer…
198 Methods of Nonviolent Action
More than 7 million Americans hit the streets to protest the authoritarian Trump regime in the USA, they rallied under the banner No Kings. Unsurprisingly, the protests were peaceful and…
Let’s End Gas Subsidies
For some strange reason countries like Canada keep giving tax money to ultra wealthy oil and gas companies even though they keep killing all life on the planet. Let’s stop…
A New Guide to Science Advocacy
Scientists used to think that sharing the facts and evidence of an issue was enough to sway policy makers and the general public. Unfortunately, with many issues facing us today…
Be My Eyes, Be My AI
The visual impaired population is getting more support from AI to help them ‘see’ the world around them. The already very successful human-powered app Be My Eyes (we’ve covered it…
iNaturalist Goes Its Own Way
Way back in 2011 we took at a new app that helps to identify the world around, back then it was to help the California redwoods. That app is iNaturalist…
Putting Names on the Climate Crisis
The people who make decisions to continue us on a path of climate catastrophe have names and addresses. We need to shame people who are actively engage in profiteering off…
Snowflakes Important to Political Organizing
vote You’re likely thinking “oh no, not another political thing about snowflakes”, but I assure you this one is different. These snowflakes are conceptual and not the stereotype of a…
A Climate Hole in One in Spain
????Saboteamos 10 campos de golf en todo el territorio español ????Actuamos en diez campos de golf en seis provincias españolas, con el objetivo de denunciar el despilfarro de agua que…
No Mow May No Mo’?
Maybe, maybe not. It’s the end of May and hopefully you haven’t been mowing. The No Mow May campaign encourages people with lawns to let them grow during the month…
An Interview with a Cat
Those frisky felines are at it again! This time one of them is dishing out advice on how to improve your working life by communicating and acting with others. Jorts…
Don’t Move to Paradise, Make a Paradise Instead
A man in New Zealand thinks it’s better to create your own piece of paradise than to move to a natural one and just taking it over. Back in 1987…
Puffinling Patrol Save Baby Puffins
In Iceland puffins get help from humans who volunteer on the Puffling Patrol to ensure that the little birds can thrive. When baby puffins, known as pufflings, hatch they usually…
Open Source, 3D Printed, Pollution Monitoring
Efforts to monitor pollution levels around the world aren’t new, but what is new is a system created by MIT’s Senseable City Lab that anyone can make. Called Flatburn, the…
Global South Database of Climate Experts
Looking for a climate expert? Here’s the only database you need. The Global South Database is a vetted list of scientists, researchers, and practitioners around the climate the crisis. The…
Protests Work: Ontario to Repeal Anti-Worker Legislation
Last week the Conservative Ontario government did what was previously unthinkable in Canada: take away charter rights from people who work. This unprecedented act was met with widespread opposition from…