Displaying items by tag: environment

As volunteering overseas takes off, growing pains lead to new challenges for the field and for volunteers.
Published in Volunteer Abroad
Travel to some of the world's most pristine landscapes—and help keep them that way.
Published in Volunteer Abroad
Today is national coffee day! While you sip your decaf, non-fat soy latte, think about the fact that over 80 percent of Canadians drink coffee regularly, according to the Coffee Association of Canada, and in 2008 sales of coffee amounted to 16 percent of non-alcoholic beverage sales in Canada. So this just leaves the question: do you know where your coffee comes from?
Published in Editor's Desk
A little bird just told me - actually, it was the Banff Squirrel - that Parks Canada just turned 100 years old!
Published in Editor's Desk
A Honduran fishing village plants a future for mangroves with the help of Canadian non-profit.
Published in Volunteer Abroad
I have to admit I was skeptical about the Great Baikal Trail Association at first.  
Published in Volunteer Abroad
When Joseph Otari declared the forest he owned just outside of Wellington protected land, he was defying the times. 
Published in Volunteer Abroad
An award-winning documentary draws attention to a Canadian company's role in Ecuador's oil mess.
Published in Why we travel
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At last count, Aki Ra has defused over 20,000 landmines—the same number he estimates he laid as a child.
Published in Beyond the Guidebook
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