Tag: environment

  • Londoners shine light on energy conservation

    Londoners shine light on energy conservation

    London is looking to hear how you conserve energy and hopes you’ll help others do the same. That’s the idea behind a new website launched by the City of London. Known as reduceimpact.ca, the site encourages citizens to share the steps they take to reduce the amount of energy they use. People can enter a postal…

  • Londoners flock to nature talks

    Londoners flock to nature talks

    Canada geese, insect intelligence and urban forests are luring Londoners from their winter dens in droves to attend an ongoing series of nature talks. The lecture series—titled Nature in the City—has been providing a break from the abnormally cold and snowy winter every Tuesday night since Jan. 14 at Wolf Performance Hall on Dundas Street…

  • Oil battle rallies Canadian-Ecuadorian community

    Oil battle rallies Canadian-Ecuadorian community

    Canadians know oil and the controversy that follows it as well as they know hockey and poutine. And now that Neil Young’s cross-country tour is supporting a First Nation’s lawsuit against Shell, the flames are being fanned once again. Yet, what many Canadians may not know is that for more than 20 years, indigenous communities…