System Update - Rebooting Our Future
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From The Blog
Why Old Car Graveyards Are Beautiful and Why They Get Cleaned Up
For decades, hundreds of old cars sat on a property in Kaufdorf, a village near Bern in Switzerland, while a forest grew around them. Visitors described shrubs growing on the roofs and moss covering the wheels. Foxes and hares sheltered in the old car seats, and over 30 years trees grew between the car bodies […]
What Is Environmental Remediation? How Contaminated Land Gets Cleaned Up in Canada
As of October 2024, the federal government’s inventory of contaminated sites listed more than 20 thousand locations across Canada, and that list only covers land the federal government is responsible for. Most contaminated land in Canada belongs to private owners, municipalities or provinces. Much of it sits under places people drive past without a second […]
Love Ethics: When Cariño Becomes Action
What collaborative research with Indigenous Peoples teaches us about care, responsibility, and social change Love is rarely treated as a serious research method. In universities and public institutions, it is often pushed into the private realm, as though care and feeling compromise objectivity. Yet research is never free of values. Every project begins with choices: […]
How Communities Learn to Share Their Home With Bears and Coyotes
On September 10, 2026, the weekly Bear Report for Canmore, Alberta warned that a young black bear was being seen regularly in the Cougar Creek, Eagle Terrace and Benchlands neighbourhoods, feeding on people’s cherry trees. The same report reminded residents of a rule that most towns would never think to write down. In Canmore, if […]
How Animals Cross the Trans-Canada Highway
In Highway Wilding, road ecologist Dr. Tony Clevenger explains what an animal in Banff National Park is up against when it needs to reach the other side of the Trans-Canada Highway. “There are on average 17,000 vehicles a day that pass on this highway with peaks of up to 30,000 vehicles per day,” he says […]
The Wolverine You Will Probably Never See: Chasing a Trace is now on The Green Channel
When our founder, Scott Renyard, was about ten years old, a wolverine stole his fish, and he never saw it happen. “I remember when I was about 10, my Dad and I were fishing way up Laforme Creek near Revelstoke, B.C.,” Scott says. “We found a log jam and managed to catch a couple of […]