Ahora que llega a su fin 2020, un año difícil y extraordinario por donde se mire, queremos disponer de unos momentos para desear a todos nuestros socios, colaboradores y seguidores unas fiestas de fin de año seguras y sanas.
A pesar de los inconvenientes y desafíos que este año trajo consigo, nuestro trabajo por conservar, proteger y mejorar el medio ambiente de América del Norte en ningún momento ha cesado. …
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As 2020 ends, marking a difficult and extraordinary year by any measure, we’d like to take the time to wish all our partners and followers a safe and healthy holiday season.
Though it has been a difficult year, our work to conserve, protect, and enhance the North American environment has continued. This is in no small part thanks to the commitment of countless scientists, policymakers, community leaders, young people, and citizens we have worked with, who remain as focused as ever on building a more sustainable future.
Food waste isn’t waste until it’s wasted.
Kristian Krugman is one of the innovators behind SOULMUCH, a California-based cookie company that saves rice and quinoa from landfill and uses it to make cookies instead. Krissy and her team won the CEC Youth Innovation Challenge in 2017 and have continued to lead the charge against food waste in their community ever since. As part of our efforts to #ShrinkFoodWaste in North America, we caught up with her to discuss how she and her team approach the challenge of food waste and what they're doing to shrink the food waste mountain that’s in front of all of us.
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NoPlastic es un innovador bioplástico completamente biodegradable que resulta de un enfoque de economía circular y evita la generación de desechos alimentarios
Karime Guillén, una de las ganadoras del Desafío Juvenil para la Innovación de la CCA de este año, es una joven emprendedora con enorme interés en la ciencia, la biotecnología y el planeta. Junto con una profesora de la universidad donde estudia y tres compañeros más, fundó Biovatec, empresa de biotecnología que propone generar un impacto ambiental positivo desde la industria. Uno de los productos innovadores de Biovatec consiste en un bioplástico compostable elaborado a partir de nopal, desechos agroindustriales de frutas — cáscaras y hojas, entre otros — y aditivos naturales. NoPlastic busca servir de material sustituto al plástico…
There are stories in the food we eat and share—let’s listen to them.
While working in a Toronto restaurant a few years ago, Monique Chan, the winner of this year’s CEC Youth Innovation Challenge, realized that thousands of dollars were being wasted in her restaurant alone as a result of food waste. Since then, she’s created Bruized, a women-led company centered on combating food loss by diverting waste from the landfill and using it to create healthy snacks everyone can enjoy. We caught up with her to talk about her perspective on food waste as a young entrepreneur and how she finds motivation in the face of big environmental challenges.
This interview has…
In the wake of World Environment Day, we call on North American decision-makers to help deliver solutions that put nature at the forefront to protect our shared future.
By Barbara Hendrie (United Nations Environment Programme) and Richard Morgan (Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
The current global pandemic has laid bare the close link between human health and nature. As we work to build back better, decision-makers across North America should consider how we can do this in ways that support our planet, its people, and the economy.
From the food we eat to the air we breathe, we depend on biodiversity for the variety of life on earth and the links among all its elements. Without this complex, interdependent web, human existence would not be possible. …
Let’s talk PRTRs: where to find them and why they matter to you.
By Danielle Vallée, Project Lead, Environmental Quality, Commission for Environmental Cooperation
About six months ago, a woman from a small Quebec municipality contacted us to ask if we could help her find information about the activities of a local waste management facility. She specifically wanted to know about the materials it handles and if it generates emissions that could have negative impacts on the community’s air or water quality. We gladly provided her with data and information from our North American database, and also pointed her to…
Some things you can do to protect the environment while we all practice social distancing
Written by Bhan Gatkuoth, CEC Communications Intern
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To accommodate the challenges posed by the COVID-19 virus, we’re all being asked to restructure our lifestyle with the safety of ourselves and others in mind. For most of us, this means wearing masks, washing our hands more frequently, and staying home to limit the spread of infection in our communities. It also means we have had to rethink what we can do to continue protecting our shared environment, even if we can’t interact with it in the same ways as before.
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A three-step recipe for saving the Monarch butterfly
Written by Greg Mitchell, Ph.D., Research Scientist with the Wildlife Research Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada, and Canadian Co-chair of the Monarch Conservation Science Partnership
Last year, while attending the Trinational Monarch Science Meeting in Mexico City, I got the chance to represent Canada when the overwintering population of monarch butterflies was announced. This was one of the highlights of my career to date. The population had increased from 2.48 to 6.05 hectares from the previous winter, a 144% increase! The joy in the room was palpable; everyone was smiling.
Fast forward to 2020, just one year later…
Written by Thean Acres
In In addition to causing immense infrastructure and environmental damage, floods place major economic burdens on communities. From Quebec to Texas, Chihuahua and beyond, North Americans grapple with this reality every year.
Understanding the economic cost of these extreme events is central to addressing their impact on communities and allocating adequate resources for monitoring and preparedness. That’s why we’ve been working on the Costing Floods and Other Extreme Events initiative with partners from all over North America.
Recently these collaborative efforts took us to Vancouver, British Columbia, where we hosted a workshop with our partners, the…
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