We all stick our blue boxes out to the curb on collection day, but what actually happens to all of the plastic we pile in there? Some of it is made into plastic bottles, carpets or drainage pipes, but some of is transformed in consumer products, or upcycled. Giving worn old products new value isn’t exactly a new phenomenon — my grandmother used to call it making do.
Quilting, making mosaics or welding together makeshift auto repairs are all basically versions of upcycling, and thanks to online ...
Barn owls are listed as endangered in Ontario. Photo: Vladimir_Naumov/Canadian Geographic Photo Club
Ontario’s Ministry of Natural Resources has proposed revisions to its Endangered Species Act that would allow exemptions for certain industries — a move environmentalists say would be a step back in the protection of species at risk.
Posted by Heather Yundt
on Saturday, December 08, 2012
In cased you missed it, here's a recap of what happened in geography news this week: Bill C-45, which included changes to the Navigable Waters Protection Act, passed through the House of Commons this week unchanged, upsetting environmentalists. First Nations Chiefs protested the bill on Parliament Hill. More protests are planned.
Discussion of a Maritime Union continued, after three Maritime senators ruffled some feathers by putting forth the idea last week. The Globe ...
During the summer of 2012, much of Canada along with Ontario recorded some of the hottest and driest conditions in recent memory. These conditions set the stage for one of the busiest fire seasons in the past decade. Ontario’s forests cover a land equivalent the size of Italy, Germany and the Netherlands combined, reaching nearly 71 million hectares of forest. As summer storms sweep through the north, electrical storms often follow, and with them come hundreds of lightning strikes. These strikes ...
Usually, Iqaluit mayor Madeleine Redfern explains, ships start coming into Iqaluit at the end of the first week of July, when the ice has cleared just enough for them to navigate without peril. This year, they were only able to make it in at around the third week of July. Geoff Green showed us a series of ice charts courtesy of the Canadian Ice Service tracking ice cover along the coast of Baffin Island in Nunavut. Though wind and currents are sweeping away some ...
