Resources
Infographic: ReGeneration
Cascade of solutions
Regeneration puts life at the center of every action and decision. It applies to all of life—grasslands, farms, insects, forests, fish, wetlands, coastlands, and oceans—and it applies equally to family, communities, cities, schools, religion, commerce, and governments. And most spectacularly to climate.
Policy and Reports.
Advancing Mandatory Building Performance Standards: A Roadmap for Local Government Action ​
Natural Capital Assets - Town of Aurora
Biodiversity: Milestone document - Canada.ca
The Breakthrough Agenda Report 2024 | Climate Champions
National Strategy Respecting Environmental Racism​
Net Zero Roadmap: A Global 1.5 Pathway Update - IEA
Newmarket, Ontario Energy Storage Case Study | Ameresco
Protecting nature: Canada’s story - Canada.ca
Spending What it Takes | Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Toronto Plan to be fossil free by 2040 ​
Toronto Downtown: Current Air Quality Health Index
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Trackers, Explanations and Solutions
CBC - What on Earth: weekly climate newsletter
Canada | Climate Action Tracker
Global Methane Tracker
Happy Planet Index
National Geographic: Climate Change
Nature-based Climate Solutions // Conservation Ontario​
‘Researching climate change feels like standing in the path of an approaching train’
What 1.5C living actually looks like
United Nations document - Climate Change​​​
The Drawdown Review​​
In April 2017, Project Drawdown released its inaugural body of work on climate solutions with the publication of the best-selling book Drawdown and a suite of open-source resources on Drawdown.org.​ Get the Drawdown Review.
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The Magnitude of All Things
Jennifer Abbott lost her sister to cancer, her sorrow opened her up to the profound gravity of climate breakdown. Abbott’s new documentary The Magnitude of All Things draws intimate parallels between the experiences of grief—both personal and planetary.
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Canada’s Future in a net zero world
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Canada’s Future in a Net-Zero World: Securing Canada’s Place in the Global Green Economy explores how governments can take an industrial policy approach to ensure the country’s long-term competitiveness. The report was published by Smart Prosperity Institute, the Pacific Institute for Climate Solutions (PICS), and The Transition Accelerator.
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Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions
Storytelling to Accelerate Climate Solutions
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TED Talk
Canadian Tzeporah Berman: The Bad Math of the Fossil Fuel Industry. Talk on the need to have a global treaty for fossil fuel production and how to gear it down.
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Jonathan Foley: The problem with food and climate — and how to fix it
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Examining the Viability of Planting Trees to Help Mitigate Climate Change
It’s an intriguing premise: what if we could reduce the severity of global climate change by planting hundreds of billions of trees to remove excess carbon from our atmosphere? A recent study published in the journal Science sought to provide answers by estimating the global potential of restoring forested lands as a possible strategy for mitigating climate change.
