Humberside's Environmental Action Team

11/03/2020

Developers are trying to pave over an area of sensitive and important wetland between Pickering and Ajax in order to build a massive new warehouse complex. We urgently need your help to stop it.

07/21/2020

At 13, I was into chess and Dungeons and Dragons. That was the year I hit my growth spurt—and learned what it is to be seen not as a child, but as a threat.

07/09/2020

The Inuit have a long and vibrant tradition of passing tales and legends down from one generation to the next ...

01/30/2020

The panel that reviewed the Teck Frontier mine found it would have “irreversible” impacts on the environment and “significant adverse effects” on Indigenous Peoples.

Tell Minister Wilkinson to choose the climate, environment, and Indigenous rights over a new, massive tar sands project: https://bit.ly/2NsuSZJ

12/14/2018

10/27/2017

Chemical educator, Andy Brunning explains the chemistry that makes spider silk strong and elastic.

Read more: cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Periodic-graphics-chemistry-spiderwebs.html

Download the high-res pdf: cenm.ag/spiderweb

11/21/2016

11/17/2016

Our car seats recycling service diverts the recyclable components from going into landfills.

06/07/2015

Join the Vancouver Aquarium for a presentation on converting plastic pollution into fuel. Two innovative organizations, The Ocean Legacy Foundation and Resyn...

04/27/2015

We’ve all been told that we should recycle plastic bottles and containers. But what actually happens to the plastic if we just throw it away? Emma Bryce traces the life cycles of three different plastic bottles, shedding light on the dangers these disposables present to our world.