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9 Tips To Reduce Plastic Use This Holiday - Don't Let Plastic Steal Your Holiday

Becky Bassick — December 10, 2018

Reining in consumerism and reusing last year's wrapping paper doesn't make you a grinch.

About 90% of plastic waste is not recycled in Canada. Household waste volumes double in the week after Christmas in Canada 1 - and we already produce way too much to begin with!

To try and tackle the #ProblemWithPlastics while keeping the season warm and bright, here are some tips to reduce plastic waste during the holidays:

Join Mary And Help Protect The Northumberland Strait

Gretchen Fitzgerald — October 9, 2018

Mary Gorman is a Green Hero, local activist, and Sierra Club Member who has dedicated her life to protecting the Gulf of St. Lawrence. She has lived for decades in the toxic legacy of the Pictou County pulp mill - her family’s cottage was on its once pristine shores.

Here We Stand...And It's Great News!

Gretchen Fitzgerald — August 10, 2018

Today, we're doing a double-jump for joy and it's all because of YOU!

It’s always nice to come back from a lovely vacation to good news – especially in a summer in which we are all sweating in the heat of impending climate chaos. And I’m happy to have some very good news to share with you.

Join Watch for Wildlife at the Lush store in Dartmouth this Saturday!

Gretchen Fitzgerald — July 20, 2018

Please join us this Saturday, July 21st, anytime between noon-4pm, as Watch for Wildlife NS and Lush Mic Mac Mall in Dartmouth host an Awareness Day about preventing vehicle-collisions with wildlife.

Our Plastics, Ourselves

Melissa Munro — May 22, 2018

“I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.”

-- The Graduate, 1967

Plastics: Our Plastics, Ourselves

Becky Bassick — May 16, 2018

“I want to say one word to you. Just one word. Are you listening? Plastics.”

-- The Graduate, 1967

You need to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer

Melissa Munro — May 9, 2018

I highly recommend you take a few minutes to read this piece by Joel Ballard from The National Observer. It is an impressive piece of journalism.

Indigenous Peoples, the Nuclear Industry, and Canada’s Nuclear Waste

Posted on April 22, 2018

Earth Day - Special Blog - Ole Hendrickson

By Dr. Ole Hendrickson

Happy Spring! A little something for you when you join us.

Melissa Munro — March 21, 2018

Join us today and receive a special gift in celebration of your commitment to the environment.

We are ready to take on the challenges coming our way. But we can only do that with new members like you.

It takes one person – YOU – as a valued member of our national family – to build and sustain the kind of movement that our Founding Director Elizabeth May envisioned.

Shallow Politics. Deep Concerns.

Becky Bassick — March 21, 2018

by Becky Bassick & Lino Grima

Sierra Club Canada Foundation, Ontario Chapter

Ontario's 42nd general election is scheduled for June of this year. Sierra Club Ontario (SCO) is working hard with a coalition of other environmental nonprofits to ensure that water is part of the political conversation. In addition, SCO is taking this opportunity to discuss fundamental questions regarding our election process.