Recherche: Getting involved

(Adapted from a column by Steven Guilbeault originally published in the Métro newspaper.) "There was more sad environmental news from Ottawa this January. The Minister of Natural Resources, Joe Oliver, published an open lette ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 31/01/2012 - 17:37 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Environmentalists across North America welcomed news that the Obama administration had said no to the Keystone XL pipeline project as currently proposed by TransCanada. The project, valued at more than $7 billion, seeks to carry tar sands crude from ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 30/01/2012 - 14:42 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Secondaire Vincent Galarneau, an MA student in anthropology at Université Laval, won the Laure Waridel bursary for his project: a guide to eco-solidarity practices on farms. The proje ...

Solution - Anne Chudobiak - 26/01/2012 - 10:40 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, January 18, 2012 - Equiterre is pleased to learn that there are still political leaders in North America who can say no – to pressure groups, to greed – in the name of protecting human and environmental health. “The r ...

Communiqué - Émilie Vallières - 18/01/2012 - 18:25 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

If you were discouraged by December's news that Canada would be withdrawing from Kyoto, there is new hope in the form of a Federal Court challenge – led by former MP Daniel Turp, now a law professor at the Université de Montréal – contesting ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 18/01/2012 - 17:00 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

On Friday, four determined young men started their 6962-m assent of Mount Aconcagua in the Andes Mountains of Argentina. This is the 5th expedition for the Marathon vertical project, which involves climbing the highest mountains on seven ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 09/01/2012 - 11:55 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The fresh sting of the Kyoto pull-out. Disappointment in Durban. Traffic jams in Montreal. What do these issues have in common? They got you talking. It’s your interest that fuels the fight against climate change. Ev ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 22/12/2011 - 10:33 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Equiterre urges decision makers in the public and private sectors to make socially and environmentally responsible choices, with a focus on 7 major issues along two main themes: food production and the fight against climate change. ...

Projet - Kathy Poulin - 21/12/2011 - 14:35 - 0 comments

Event date(s):  19 January, 2012 (All day) - 21 January, 2012 (All day) The Desautels Business Conference on Sustainability ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 14/12/2011 - 17:31 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal and Durban, December 12, 2011 - Equiterre reacts with indignation to the announcement by the Environment Minister that Canada is pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol, making clear the federal government's disregard for the fight against climat ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 13/12/2011 - 11:47 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban, South Africa, December 9, 2011 – Today, Canada was awarded the dubious honour of the Fossil of the Year award for the 5th year running at the UN climate change conferences. Canadians were on hand at COP17 in Durban, South Africa to acc ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 12:23 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban, the longest conference in the history of UN climate summits, has failed to result in an agreement that would limit the average global temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. Instead, it will permit an alarming rise of 4 degrees – moving ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 12:22 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban, South Africa, December 11, 2011 - Steven Guilbeault, deputy executive director of Equiterre, had the following reaction in the wake of Durban: "A historic agreement was within our grasp in Durban, but the combined efforts of the Un ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 12:20 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  17 December, 2011 (All day) - 18 December, 2011 (All day) For young and old. You provide the ideas. We ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 12/12/2011 - 10:08 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Leaflets condemning Canada for negotiating in bad faith circulated yesterday in Durban, South Africa, marking the arrival of Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent at the UN climate talks underway until December 9. At issue: Canada ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 08/12/2011 - 16:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  10 December, 2011 - 13:30 - 17:00 Were you upset by Canada's announcement that it would not be signing ont ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 07/12/2011 - 16:29 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In a full page ad in the Globe and Mail, Nobel Peace Prize winner Desmond Tutu and other African leaders called for Canada to take a leadership role in the fight against climate change. They contrast the positive role Canada played in the fight ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 07/12/2011 - 13:02 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, December 8, 2011 – Socially and Environmentally Responsible Aggregate Canada (SERA-Canada) is pleased to announce a new collaboration with Equiterre that will investigate the degree of interest amongst stakeholders in Quebec in estab ...

Communiqué - Émilie Vallières - 07/12/2011 - 12:45 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Durban is making headlines right now as delegates from around the world – including Equiterre's Steven Guilbeault – debate the future of the Kyoto Protocol. Find out what's really at stake. Read about: Durban: what's that? ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 02/12/2011 - 14:27 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Is Christmas a holiday that you celebrate, but with a feeling of deep reservation, even guilt, at the consumer excess and waste? Don't feel bad.  There's hope. You can give the season new meaning  by choosing new ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 02/12/2011 - 12:17 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  5 December, 2011 - 09:00 - 12:00 Equiterre and Bombardier Aerospace are co-hosting a panel discussion on s ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 01/12/2011 - 12:14 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  7 December, 2011 - 17:30 - 20:00 Budding activists, this new how-to guide * is for you! It demystif ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 22/11/2011 - 18:16 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  7 December, 2011 - 09:00 - 8 December, 2011 - 17:00 For the 16th year in a row, producers are invited to Journ ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 22/11/2011 - 18:01 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  26 November, 2011 - 08:30 - 18:00 The  Forum des artisans du changement  is your chance to dis ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 14/11/2011 - 13:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Event date(s):  10 December, 2011 - 11:00 - 17:00 Free write-a-thon to mark Human Rights Day.  Each year, more th ...

Événement - Anne Chudobiak - 14/11/2011 - 12:46 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Montreal, November 8, 2011 – Equiterre is unimpressed with federal Environment Minister Peter Kent's attempt to obscure the news that Canada will not participate in the second commitment period for the Kyoto Protocol by announcing a $148 milli ...

Communiqué - Anne Chudobiak - 09/11/2011 - 17:43 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

In 2009, Quebec greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions decreased by 2.5% as compared with 1990, according to the Quebec Ministry of Sustainable Development, Environment and Parks in its latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions . * ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 09/11/2011 - 11:51 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

By Steven Guilbeault, cofounder and deputy executive director of Equiterre For several weeks now, the Montreal Metropolitan Community (MMC), which includes the island of Montreal, Laval, Longueuil and the North Shore, has been hol ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 01/11/2011 - 16:09 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Equiterre helped the Yellow Pages Group update its EcoGuide. The new version, which is more user friendly, contains information on: what is recyclable in your area how to responsibly dispose of such toxic household waste as dead batt ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 01/11/2011 - 13:57 - 0 comments - 0 attachments

The hearings on Quebec's green paper for an agri-food policy that were supposed to take place this fall have been postponed once again. They have been rescheduled for January 2012, which means that there is no chance of any legislatio ...

Actualité - Anne Chudobiak - 01/11/2011 - 11:36 - 0 comments - 0 attachments