Recherche: Getting involved

Laure Waridel will participate in a talk on fair trade to be held at the Centre for Sustainable Devlopment (better known by its official name, Maison du développement durable) as part of a lecture series celebrating Equiterre's 20th anniv ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 17:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Even if it doesn't spill, it will already have been an environmental disaster. In the fall of 2012 Enbridge filed an application with the National Energy Board (NEB) to re ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 17:08 - 0 comments - 1 attachment

Secondaire Many Quebec residents are taking the lead, both alone and as part of a group, with inspiring action to protest against the arrival of tar sands oil in Quebec. Here are some ...

Solution - Stagiaire Recherche - 08/05/2013 - 16:39 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Secondaire The National Energy Board (NEB) is the federal agency that administers oil, gas or electricity projects traversing provincial boundaries. As such, it is responsible for orga ...

Solution - Stagiaire Recherche - 08/05/2013 - 16:33 - 0 comments - 11 attachments

Secondaire Do you want to participate in the movement against the pipelines and tar sand development? Several local groups have already formed in the towns along the route of Enbridg ...

Solution - Stagiaire Recherche - 08/05/2013 - 15:58 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Secondaire Enbridge is proposing to reverse the flow of its 9B pipeline from North Westover (Ontario) to Montreal. If its application to the National Energy Board is accepted, tar sand ...

Solution - Stagiaire Recherche - 08/05/2013 - 15:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Principale The extraction of tar sands oil is already the primary source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions growth in Canada ( 1 ). Despite this, the industry continues ...

Solution - Stagiaire Recherche - 08/05/2013 - 15:53 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

It has been almost a year since Etienne Théroux began his bike trip of a lifetime, CycloExpedition Americas: 27,000 km across the Americas, to raise awareness about food sovereignty and ecological agriculture. After eight countries an ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 11:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

More than 50,000 Quebecers gathered peacefully in downtown Montreal on Sunday, April 21 to Walk for the Earth and register opposition to pipeline projects that could soon bring tar sands crude from Alberta through Quebec. The Walk &nd ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 11:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Polar Bear on Thin Ice comes to downtown Montreal. As an emblem of the North, the polar bear invites us to reflect on climate change. What kind of impact is ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/05/2013 - 10:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Two years ago, out of a desire to give back to the community, Mélanie filled out a volunteer application on our website. "It was my dad who first told me about Equiterre. I thought it sounded like a good cause," she says one ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 23/04/2013 - 16:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  2 May, 2013 - 19:00 - 21:00 The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for pe ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 16/04/2013 - 11:52 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  15 April, 2013 - 18:30 - 20:30 “The tar sands are heading East,” a conference on pipeline proj ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 09/04/2013 - 13:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  30 April, 2013 - 19:00 - 21:00 The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 09/04/2013 - 11:19 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, April 4, 2013 – Today, Polar Bear on Thin Ice, a new exhibit, launched at the Place des Festivals of Quartier des Spectacles in Montreal. Artist Armand Vaillancourt was on hand to document the event with a live painting session. The ...

Communiqué - Loic Dehoux - 08/04/2013 - 16:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

This year we Walk for the Earth on Sunday, April 21, leaving from the place des Festivals in Montreal at 2 p.m. Bring your alarm clock or cell to sound the alarm for a collective awakening.  The Walk is part of a global movement ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/04/2013 - 15:35 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For the 5th year in a row, our members have joined forces with the Caisse d’économie solidaire to encourage the next generation of environmental leaders. This year's winner, Marcus Lobb, an undergraduate student in Geography and the ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/04/2013 - 15:05 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In anticipation of National Volunteer Week (NVW), we would like to acknowledge how much we depend on our volunteers. They are at the heart of everything we do. We couldn't do it without them. They are crucial to our mission of ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/04/2013 - 14:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Ten years ago, Quebec did a gutsy thing: it adopted the first Pesticides Management Code in all of North America, restricting the use of certain pesticides for cosmetic purposes.  But since then, Quebec has been overtaken by some of the other p ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/04/2013 - 11:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, March 26, 2013 - Environmental groups in the United States, Ontario and Quebec have criticised the limited mandate of the National Energy Board (NEB) and the lack of transparency from Enbridge regarding the energy giant’s proposed re ...

Communiqué - Loic Dehoux - 26/03/2013 - 11:56 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

For International Women’s Day, we’ve put together a list of some of our favourite women environmentalists. Scientists and community activists... Fashion designers and business women... If you like them as much as w ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 07/03/2013 - 19:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

If the National Energy Board okays the reversal of the section of the Line 9 pipeline between North Westover, Ontario and Montreal, then tar sands oil could soon flow through the following regions of Quebec: Montérégie, the lower Laurenti ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 07/03/2013 - 19:11 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Principale You share Equiterre's commitment to social and environmental responsibility and would like to help promote the cause? Or maybe you have a great idea fo ...

Solution - Fanny Lasselin - 27/02/2013 - 17:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  27 February, 2013 - 17:00 - 18:30 The David O'Brien Centre for Sustainable Enterprise at the John Molson S ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 25/02/2013 - 16:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Dr. Margaret Sanborn, coauthor of a literature review on the effects of pesticides on human health published last June by the Ontario College of Family Physicians, was in Montreal earlier this month to explain her findings, on the invitation of the Queb ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 18/02/2013 - 12:44 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  11 March, 2013 - 18:30 - 21:00 The pipeline company Enbridge has asked the National Energy Board (NEB) for ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 06/02/2013 - 16:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Principale Use this free e-guide to help your organization develop a promotional product strategy that is compatible with its sustainability goals. It briefly explai ...

Solution - Anne Chudobiak - 06/02/2013 - 15:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

By popular demand, our Guide to Sustainable Promotional Products is now available in English. Use this free e-guide to help your organization develop a promotional product strategy that is compatible with its sustainability goals. It briefly explain ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 06/02/2013 - 15:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Julie Guicheteau won the 2008 Laure Waridel bursary for her master's project on success factors affecting sustainable mobility. Now she has turned her project into a book, Projets efficaces pour une mobilité durable , co-authored with her research di ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 05/02/2013 - 11:26 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Tuesday, November 20 is Budget Day in Quebec. Equiterre, Vivre en Ville and the David Suzuki Foundation have some suggestions for making this a green budget with a social justice bent, including micro clean energy projects, model neig ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/12/2012 - 08:44 - 1 comment - 0 attachments