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3 June 2012
This month Étienne Théroux, 26, embarks on a bike trip across the Americas. One of his fundraising goals? To raise money for Equiterre. He also intends to raise awareness about food sovereignty and ecological agriculture.
It will take him one and a half years to travel from...
3 June 2012
Thank you to the seven volunteers in our Quebec City action group who distributed more than 1000 flyers by bike last weekend, reminding residents that there is still time to order a summer basket of locally grown vegetables from one of the family farmers in our community...
2 May 2012
Quebec's largest awareness-raising and mobilization campaign in the fight against climate change is back for a 5th edition.
You can now commit to reducing your greenhouse gas emissions even further while improving your health and giving your wallet a break, by making a pledge in...
2 May 2012
Did you know that after leading the way with the first provincial ban on lawn pesticides in 2003, Quebec has now fallen behind other provinces when it comes to protecting human and environmental health in this matter?
Our list of banned pesticides hasn't changed since 2003,...
1 May 2012
When you join Equiterre, $1 goes to the Laure Waridel student bursary for research on environmental and social action, an amount that is matched by the Caisse d'économie Solidaire Desjardins, a Quebec-based credit union.
This year's $10,000 prize has been awarded to Bruno Demers...
1 March 2012
A gang of environmentalists gathered on an outdoor Montreal rink on February 16 for a friendly hockey match. The goal: to raise awareness about the threat climate change poses to this winter sport.
Each player wore the number one to mark the fact that Canada is the only country...
13 February 2012
You want to eat more locally grown, organic food, but find shopping for groceries difficult enough to fit into your schedule as is...
Did you know that you can arrange to have a farmer's basket full of healthy, locally grown vegetables delivered directly to your workplace once a...
13 February 2012
Until recently, for coffee to be certified fair trade, it had to be produced by a democratically run co-ooperative.
But Fair Trade USA is opening the fair trade market to other types of producers, including the big coffee plantations, in a bid to double U.S. sales for fair trade...
