by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Aug 9, 2024 | Climate-Resilient Living, Get Involved, Human Impacts
Stories help us visualize a future filled with hope, and they help keep us motivated as we dream about the lives we want our kids, grandkids, and loved ones to experience as they get older. Stories also help us communicate our fears and anxieties, and help others feel...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Aug 6, 2024 | Climate-Resilient Living, Get Involved
The climate crisis and COVID-19 pandemic have highlighted the instability of our dominant, industrialized food system. This has led to more Manitobans taking interest in consuming more local, sustainably grown food. However, the added cost often associated with...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Jul 11, 2023 | Climate-Resilient Living, Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
In March 2023, Manitoba’s Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Office, Climate Reality, and Manitoba’s Climate Action Team commission a poll through Probe Research in an effort to learn how involved Manitobans think our provincial government should be...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | May 10, 2023 | Climate Action Plans, Climate-Resilient Living, Human Impacts, Policy, Road to Resilience
By: Emma Power No further emission increases are tolerable. Any more half-baked measures will half-bake us. Every year in mid-April, Canada publishes its National Inventory Report (NIR). The report outlines the greenhouse gas (GHG) sources and sinks across the...
by Manitoba's Climate Action Team | Apr 21, 2023 | Climate-Resilient Living, Get Involved
By: Trevor Lehmann “Hope is short-lived unless coupled with a desire for future worlds that are not depressing but instead so enticing that they might lead us to yearn for a new way of being.” – Sarah Ray, A Field Guide to Climate Anxiety At sixteen, my father took...
by Alex Deneka | Jul 14, 2022 | Climate-Resilient Living, Human Impacts, In The News
“Cost of living is through the roof, fuel prices are at record highs, we can’t afford carbon taxes!” Quite the contrary. Canada has had a carbon price for a few years now, and it will not (and definitely should not) go anywhere. Pricing carbon pollution is widely...