environmentalism

Environmentalist cleans up Kitchener neighbourhood

Night settles over Huron Village and the residents emerge to put their trash on the curb. However, trash day here also means excess garbage, furniture waste, and lack of recycling. Miranda Powell, a resident and environmentalist, decided it was time to make a difference in her community. “I noticed how bad the garbage here was when I first moved in,” said Powell. “Weeks would go on with no change and … Continued

Bees an endangered pollinator

BY MEGHAN WEATHERALL “It’s like a game of Jenga, you can move one block but what happens if it’s the wrong one or too many,” said Victoria MacPhail, co-chair at Pollination Guelph. The concern about how drastically the population of bees in Ontario has decreased didn’t start until around 10 years ago, when Dr. Sheila Colla’s bee survey was conducted for her PhD. In the early 2000s Colla revisited sites … Continued

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