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How do we build homes to withstand the impacts of climate change? That’s the question, and 600 local students are busy answering. These students are taking part in a unique opportunity offered by the...

Premier Doug Ford’s government is taking another swipe at green standards while nixing a requirement for municipalities to build climate change goals into their official plans. The new changes would...

Canada’s North is highly vulnerable to climate change impacts, and thus northern communities and infrastructure must deal with effects that include changing temperatures and precipitation patterns...

The Waterloo Climate Institute has unveiled findings from a national survey assessing climate change education in Canadian professional degree programs. Conducted between October 2024 and February...

Prime Minister Mark Carney held a meeting with hundreds of First Nations chiefs Thursday, July 17, amid widespread skepticism and frustration over his controversial major-projects legislation. Bill...

Two years ago, jurisdictions on both sides of the U.S./Canada border were moving briskly ahead with legislation to curtail CO2 emissions. At the same time, programs that discouraged non-fossil power...

This week, 25 years after the launch of the U.S. Green Building Council’s (USGBC) first version of the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) program, the council has announced the...

Picture this: You and your partner are invited over for a grand dinner party to celebrate your friend’s new house in suburbia. Arriving at night, things look pretty much as one might expect, with big...

“By mid-century, two out of every three persons on the planet will be living in urban areas. These growing urban populations face two simultaneous climate challenges; extreme heat events attributed to...

The Ontario Association of Architects' podcast, Architecturally Speaking, has earned a spot on Canadian Architect's prestigious list of best podcasts and films for Canadian architects for the year...

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