Canada’s Shorelines need your help!

Join WWF this week across Canada, from September 18 to 26, for the Great Canadian Shoreline Cleanup, presented by Loblaw Companies Limited. Help your neighborhood river, stream, lake or ocean remain clean and healthy for another year by cleaning up shoreline litter. This amazing conservation effort is a great way to reconnect with nature and it’s a fun and easy activity for people of all ages. By putting aside a couple hours to volunteer, you can help keep our shorelines healthy for many generations to come! On September 18, come out to Woodbine Beach in Toronto to the WWF-hosted cleanup event. Or check out the online map for a complete list of cleanup sites near you! Gather your coworkers, family and friends and spend time being a part of the solution. Picking up litter has never been so rewarding!

Canada Earns Failing Grade on Climate Change Action

For the first time, Canada has taken over last place from the United States in this years G8 Climate Scorecard rankings! This comes just as the G8 nations are meeting in Italy in an effort to find solutions to the world's main issues, including climate change.  According to the report, developed by WWF and the global insurance company Allianz, the United States rose in the rankings due to recent actions taken by the Obama administration on green energy and vehicle fuel efficiency. Canada ended up at the bottom of the pack because our greenhouse gas emissions are not only still increasing, thanks in large part to the expansion of the tar sands, but also because we lack a credible plan to reduce emissions in the future. Learn more about Canada's climate performance by downloading the report.

Proud of yourself Harper?

Earth Hour II is a smash

Toronto's reduction of 455 megawatts was larger than the cumulative savings of the entire GTA during last year's event.

"Torontonians want to do what's right for the environment because they get it," Mayor David Miller told a cheering crowd at Nathan Phillips Square. "It's a privilege to be mayor of a city that gets it."

The increasing local popularity of Earth Hour, for which people worldwide were asked to turn off their lights between 8:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., reflected its rapid growth internationally. Launched in Sydney by the World Wildlife Fund in 2007 to raise awareness of the perils of climate change, it spread to more than 35 countries, including Canada, in 2008.

Source: Thestar.com

We participated in Earth Hour by playing trivia by candlelight. 

Earth Hour