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Encouraging environmental initiatives in Western Canada with an online publication (ecofriendlywest.ca) and the Nature Companion website/app (http://naturecompanion.ca)
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Community Leaders & Books: October 2025
Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers
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Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers
Do Plants Know Math: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals “will lead you on a journey into the wild world where nature meets numbers. You will discover that your life is surrounded by botanical sequences and spirals, and that they are very beautiful" press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
November 14, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Do Plants Know Math: Unwinding the Story of Plant Spirals “will lead you on a journey into the wild world where nature meets numbers. You will discover that your life is surrounded by botanical sequences and spirals, and that they are very beautiful" press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
CPAWS Manitoba’s Nature Club hosts monthly hikes, from snowshoeing and skiing in January and February to Stone Mountain Quarry in October and Whittier Park in December cpawsmb.org/new-year-new...
November 12, 2025 at 2:47 PM
CPAWS Manitoba’s Nature Club hosts monthly hikes, from snowshoeing and skiing in January and February to Stone Mountain Quarry in October and Whittier Park in December cpawsmb.org/new-year-new...
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Building climate literacy in Manitoba; 2) EVs are mobile energy units; 3) Agricultural wetlands may help protect crops from heatwaves and droughts; and 4) Bees and pollinator meadows
EcoWest News, November 11, 2025
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Building climate literacy in Manitoba; 2) EVs are mobile energy units; 3) Agricultural wetlands may help protect crops from heatwaves and droughts; and 4) Bees and pollinat...
ecofriendlywest.ca
November 11, 2025 at 1:55 PM
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Building climate literacy in Manitoba; 2) EVs are mobile energy units; 3) Agricultural wetlands may help protect crops from heatwaves and droughts; and 4) Bees and pollinator meadows
The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Valhalla Wilderness Society, a BC-based wilderness conservation organization, specializing in the creation of parks and protected areas for wildlife and ecosystems www.vws.org
November 10, 2025 at 2:24 PM
The EcoFriendly West Fund is pleased to support the Valhalla Wilderness Society, a BC-based wilderness conservation organization, specializing in the creation of parks and protected areas for wildlife and ecosystems www.vws.org
Ring-billed Gulls are the most common inland gull. Nesting colonies normally include a few two-female couples, both of whom lay a clutch of eggs www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/ringgu... #NatureCompanion
November 9, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Ring-billed Gulls are the most common inland gull. Nesting colonies normally include a few two-female couples, both of whom lay a clutch of eggs www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/ringgu... #NatureCompanion
Understory: An Ecologist’s Memoir of Love and Hope, Kevin van Tighem: “The long quiet pauses during the evening birdsong chorus weren’t there before; they announce to me that I am a diminished person in a diminished world.” rmbooks.com/products/und...
November 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Understory: An Ecologist’s Memoir of Love and Hope, Kevin van Tighem: “The long quiet pauses during the evening birdsong chorus weren’t there before; they announce to me that I am a diminished person in a diminished world.” rmbooks.com/products/und...
Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers
Community Leaders & Books: October 2025
Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers
ecofriendlywest.ca
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Community Leaders & Books, October 2025: from meteors and comets to bats, waste, forests, and beavers
Join Calgary Climate Hub/Green Calgary on Nov. 20, 12-1:30 pm, to find out how you can help green your community using nature-based solutions www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/sig_nbs_gree...
November 5, 2025 at 2:29 PM
Join Calgary Climate Hub/Green Calgary on Nov. 20, 12-1:30 pm, to find out how you can help green your community using nature-based solutions www.calgaryclimatehub.ca/sig_nbs_gree...
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Technology and trees; 2) Orchestras and environmental sustainability; 3) Polar bears feed their neighbours; and 4) Manifestos for bugs
EcoWest News, November 4, 2025
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Technology and trees; 2) Orchestras and environmental sustainability; 3) Polar bears feed their neighbours; and 4) Manifestos for bugs
ecofriendlywest.ca
November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
EcoWest News highlights: 1) Technology and trees; 2) Orchestras and environmental sustainability; 3) Polar bears feed their neighbours; and 4) Manifestos for bugs
“We don’t always think about cheeseburgers when we think about the climate crisis … we can get meat and dairy off our plates and onto our agendas” – here’s how.
westcoastclimateaction.ca/reconsiderin...
westcoastclimateaction.ca/reconsiderin...
RECONSIDERING CLIMATE AND FOOD IN 2025 – West Coast Climate Action Network
westcoastclimateaction.ca
November 3, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“We don’t always think about cheeseburgers when we think about the climate crisis … we can get meat and dairy off our plates and onto our agendas” – here’s how.
westcoastclimateaction.ca/reconsiderin...
westcoastclimateaction.ca/reconsiderin...
The Ontario government’s ads implying mining is already underway in the Ring of Fire is a clever marketing ploy. If people believe the region has already been altered by roads and mines, they’ll be more ready to accept further industrialization
Don’t be fooled by the Ontario Ring of Fire ads aired during Blue Jays games | The Narwhal
Doug Ford’s ads during Blue Jays World Series games suggest mines are up and running in the Ring of Fire in northern Ontario, but that’s not true
thenarwhal.ca
November 3, 2025 at 1:19 PM
The Ontario government’s ads implying mining is already underway in the Ring of Fire is a clever marketing ploy. If people believe the region has already been altered by roads and mines, they’ll be more ready to accept further industrialization
Reposted by EcoFriendly West
Ontario's Highway 413 and Roberts Bank Terminal 2 in B.C. are among 17 projects on an internal list of priorities for the Carney government, @meyer.bsky.social has learned. Several on the list have already been deemed in the ‘national interest’ for fast-tracking. thenarwhal.ca/carney-major...
Newly released list reveals major projects on Carney’s radar | The Narwhal
Ontario Highway 413 and Vancouver port expansion named on list of 17 ‘major projects’ mulled by federal officials in March
thenarwhal.ca
November 3, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Ontario's Highway 413 and Roberts Bank Terminal 2 in B.C. are among 17 projects on an internal list of priorities for the Carney government, @meyer.bsky.social has learned. Several on the list have already been deemed in the ‘national interest’ for fast-tracking. thenarwhal.ca/carney-major...
California Gulls have a long yellow bill with a black band and a red spot near the tip. The young birds learn how to catch food by dropping a stick in mid-air and swooping down to catch it www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/calgull/ #NatureCompanion
November 2, 2025 at 2:24 PM
California Gulls have a long yellow bill with a black band and a red spot near the tip. The young birds learn how to catch food by dropping a stick in mid-air and swooping down to catch it www.naturecompanion.ca/birds/calgull/ #NatureCompanion
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash, Alexander Clapp: “How did we get to a world in which a plastic bag placed in a recycling bin in the United Kingdom becomes the bane of a Kurdish farmer three thousand miles away in Turkey?” www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...
October 31, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Waste Wars: The Wild Afterlife of Your Trash, Alexander Clapp: “How did we get to a world in which a plastic bag placed in a recycling bin in the United Kingdom becomes the bane of a Kurdish farmer three thousand miles away in Turkey?” www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/alexa...
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 could lead to a massive increase in e-waste with up to 240 million old devices ending up in landfills. Right-to-repair laws and open operating systems challenge this type of planned obsolescence.
www.futurity.org/end-of-windo...
www.futurity.org/end-of-windo...
End of Windows 10 support could mean huge e-waste increase
"The problem of e-waste raises the question of why and how these technologies become obsolete."
www.futurity.org
October 30, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Microsoft’s decision to end support for Windows 10 could lead to a massive increase in e-waste with up to 240 million old devices ending up in landfills. Right-to-repair laws and open operating systems challenge this type of planned obsolescence.
www.futurity.org/end-of-windo...
www.futurity.org/end-of-windo...
When polar bears kill their prey, they’re not only feeding themselves. In a single year, one polar bear provides scavengers, from ravens to Arctic foxes, with 300 kg of food.
News Release: Polar bears act as crucial providers for Arctic species
SAN DIEGO – A new study published in the scientific journal Oikos reveals for the first time the critical role polar bears play as carrion providers for Arctic species. Researchers from Univers
news.umanitoba.ca
October 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
When polar bears kill their prey, they’re not only feeding themselves. In a single year, one polar bear provides scavengers, from ravens to Arctic foxes, with 300 kg of food.
Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas are hosting two upcoming webinars on Sustainable Human-Animal Interactions (Nov. 3) and The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Resilience (Nov. 20) friendsareas.ca/Webinar.html
October 29, 2025 at 1:17 PM
Friends of the Saskatoon Afforestation Areas are hosting two upcoming webinars on Sustainable Human-Animal Interactions (Nov. 3) and The Role of Biodiversity in Ecosystem Resilience (Nov. 20) friendsareas.ca/Webinar.html
Orchestra Canada’s Environmental Sustainability Guide for Canadian Orchestras is designed to help orchestras of all sizes reduce their environmental impact and embrace sustainability as a source of innovation, community engagement, and artistic vitality
Orchestras Canada Launches Environmental Sustainability Resources for Canadian Orchestras - Julie's Bicycle
Orchestras Canada and Julie’s Bicycle unveil two new resources helping Canadian orchestras take action on environmental sustainability.
juliesbicycle.com
October 29, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Orchestra Canada’s Environmental Sustainability Guide for Canadian Orchestras is designed to help orchestras of all sizes reduce their environmental impact and embrace sustainability as a source of innovation, community engagement, and artistic vitality
Manitoba Environment and Climate Change is inviting public feedback on a revised environmental license request from Sio Silica involving fewer wells and removing less sand in southeast Manitoba.
Sio Silica plans to drill fewer wells, remove less sand as part of new request for environmental licence | CBC News
Alberta mining company Sio Silica has proposed to drill fewer wells and extract less sand as part of a new application for an environmental licence to bore below the surface of southeastern Manitoba.
www.cbc.ca
October 29, 2025 at 12:10 PM
Manitoba Environment and Climate Change is inviting public feedback on a revised environmental license request from Sio Silica involving fewer wells and removing less sand in southeast Manitoba.
EcoWest News highlights: 1) SK’s first breeding bird atlas; 2) Restoring wetlands; 3) Sustainable solar farms; and 4) award-winning photographs to make you laugh - and cry ecofriendlywest.ca/ecowest-news...
EcoWest News, October 28, 2025
EcoWest News highlights: 1) SK’s first breeding bird atlas; 2) Restoring wetlands; 3) Sustainable solar farms; and 4) award-winning photographs to make you laugh - and cry
ecofriendlywest.ca
October 28, 2025 at 1:20 PM
EcoWest News highlights: 1) SK’s first breeding bird atlas; 2) Restoring wetlands; 3) Sustainable solar farms; and 4) award-winning photographs to make you laugh - and cry ecofriendlywest.ca/ecowest-news...
10 restored wetlands in Illinois, designed to capture nutrient runoff from farms, are permitting researchers to identify best practices for capturing nutrients, evaluate the role of native plants in nutrient capture, and study how wetlands develop over time.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
Ohio Has Invested Millions in Wetlands to Catch Nutrient Runoff From Farms. A New Report Suggests It’s Working. - Inside Climate News
The annual report from the H2Ohio Wetland Monitoring Program found all of the wetlands examined successfully trapped nutrients and shed new light on possible best practices.
insideclimatenews.org
October 26, 2025 at 1:50 PM
10 restored wetlands in Illinois, designed to capture nutrient runoff from farms, are permitting researchers to identify best practices for capturing nutrients, evaluate the role of native plants in nutrient capture, and study how wetlands develop over time.
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
insideclimatenews.org/news/2310202...
Painted Turtles use horny plates in place of teeth to grasp their food - aquatic plants, insects, small fish or snails, and dead animal matter www.naturecompanion.ca/herps/paintu... #NatureCompanion
October 26, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Painted Turtles use horny plates in place of teeth to grasp their food - aquatic plants, insects, small fish or snails, and dead animal matter www.naturecompanion.ca/herps/paintu... #NatureCompanion
A group of young adults from the Syilx Okanagan Nation are restoring salmon habitat. “For the first time in nearly a century, sockeye salmon are freely returning to Okanagan Lake and its tributaries to spawn.”
Young 'Salmon Warriors' restore Okanagan creeks as sockeye return for the first time in a century | CBC News
Young adults are learning through hands-on restoration work in the Okanagan, as they preparing historic spawning grounds for the return of sockeye salmon.
www.cbc.ca
October 25, 2025 at 3:31 PM
A group of young adults from the Syilx Okanagan Nation are restoring salmon habitat. “For the first time in nearly a century, sockeye salmon are freely returning to Okanagan Lake and its tributaries to spawn.”
Saskatchewan’s first breeding bird atlas is now available online. The Atlas is one of the largest volunteer-based initiatives in Saskatchewan’s history and a major new resource for conservation.
sk.birdatlas.ca
sk.birdatlas.ca
Saskatchewan Breeding Bird Atlas
sk.birdatlas.ca
October 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Saskatchewan’s first breeding bird atlas is now available online. The Atlas is one of the largest volunteer-based initiatives in Saskatchewan’s history and a major new resource for conservation.
sk.birdatlas.ca
sk.birdatlas.ca
Bringing Up Beaver, John Aberth: “Why do I rehab beavers? Because you save a beaver, and you save the world – a whole world of wildlife that thrives in a beaver-managed ecosystem unlike any other.” www.simonandschuster.com/authors/John...
October 25, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Bringing Up Beaver, John Aberth: “Why do I rehab beavers? Because you save a beaver, and you save the world – a whole world of wildlife that thrives in a beaver-managed ecosystem unlike any other.” www.simonandschuster.com/authors/John...