Environment: Articles, Programs, Blogs, Travel Resources

August 15, 2012

Passion for Plastic

An organization founded in love, the 5 Gyres is researching the world's plastic problem. 
10 mindful trips that will change the way you travel.
As volunteering overseas takes off, growing pains lead to new challenges for the field and for volunteers.
Travel to some of the world's most pristine landscapes—and help keep them that way.
Today is national coffee day! While you sip your decaf, non-fat soy latte, think about the fact that over 80 percent of Canadians drink coffee regularly, according to the Coffee Association of Canada, and in 2008 sales of coffee amounted to 16 percent of non-alcoholic beverage sales in Canada. So this just leaves the question: do you know where your coffee comes from?
A little bird just told me - actually, it was the Banff Squirrel - that Parks Canada just turned 100 years old!
A Honduran fishing village plants a future for mangroves with the help of Canadian non-profit.
I have to admit I was skeptical about the Great Baikal Trail Association at first.  
When Joseph Otari declared the forest he owned just outside of Wellington protected land, he was defying the times. 
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