Over and over, we hear politicians say they can't spend our tax dollars on environmental protection when the economy is so fragile.

Although they [light and medium trucks] have only 5% of the transportation market..., they account for fully 35% of greenhouse gas emissions from freight transportation.

Canada, more than any nation, will be affected by rising sea levels from global warming.

Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.

Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology.

Each of us now has 2.27 kg (5 lbs) of plastic embedded in our bodies.

There is a gyre of discarded floating plastic the size of the continental USA in the ocean. In it, plastic trash outweighs plankton 40 to 1.

In nature there is no such thing as waste. In nature nothing is wasted; everything is recycled.