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Total: 13

Browse content for top tips on sustainable living from the Queen of Green and learn more about climate change and how you can make a difference.
Oct 30th, 2020

No matter what your age, there are things you can do to help the environment! Through these activities teachers can help students identify how they can make a difference at home, at school and in the community.
Oct 30th, 2020

Kids need nature! And so do parents, grandparents, caregivers and teachers. Encourage kids to spend time outside and teach them about environmental responsibility with these activity guides.
Oct 30th, 2020

Learn about the orcas whale that makes its home on the Salish Sea near Vancouver, Canada
Nov 13th, 2020

Creating and restoring butterfly habitat offsets what development, roadside mowing or wetland drainage have destroyed. (Gardening pesticide-free helps, too.) Whether you have a small plot in the big city or a few acres, transform your yard into a butterfly garden! Many butterfly species don’t migrate. You can provide habitat and food for their entire life cycle — eggs, larvae, pupae AND adults — throughout the year. Think beyond providing flowers for nectar in the height of summer.
Nov 13th, 2020

Manicured lawns are a desert for pollinators (and most wildlife). But you can make your yard or garden a pollinator paradise! In spring, leave twig piles and bare ground. Come summer, let veggies bolt. Provide a source of water and don’t rake all the fall leaves. Build homes where pollinators can lay eggs or overwinter. Chances are you’re already taking steps to help pollinators — bees (wild and honeybees), butterflies and birds. That’s great! Not sure? Check your actions against these tips.
Nov 13th, 2020

Each of us can create habitat to support local bee populations. Bees are more likely to thrive in your backyard, community or patio garden and on mixed farms than on acres devoted to single crops. Urban settings mean short flight paths and a variety of different plants and flowers to sample.
Nov 13th, 2020

Kids who experience nature’s mystery and beauty will grow up caring about protecting it. Being attentive to life helps us better understand and act on the understanding that we are all interconnected and embedded in and indebted to the Earth. Most children are curious explorers, so you don’t need to do much to cultivate their nature connection — just take them outside (rain or shine) and get out of their way!
Nov 13th, 2020

When spring arrives, you can cultivate a renewed sense of wonder about backyard birds. Attract birds with nesting material! It will complement other rewilding efforts like pollinator-friendly gardening, erecting a bee home and planting a butterfly garden.
Oct 30th, 2020

Butterflyways are popping up across Canada, thanks to caring and dedicated teachers, parents, students and community leaders. Is your school ready to smell the wildflowers, create new habitat for pollinators and have fun?
Oct 30th, 2020

Learn about the differences between bees, wasps and flies
Nov 13th, 2020

Boreal caribou are a national icon, with their place on the Canadian quarter, but the truth is they’re not doing well. Increasing pressures from industry and development are putting their homes in Canada’s vast boreal forest at risk. This threatened species deserves our protection not simply because they’re iconic. The truth is, we can’t afford to lose caribou because they’re just plain cool.
Nov 13th, 2020

The Butterflyway Project is a citizen-led movement growing highways of habitat for bees and butterflies across Canada.
Oct 30th, 2020

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