As a plant-based butchery, Gottingen Street’s Real Fake Meats is far from a typical butcher shop. But if there’s one tradition co-founder Lauren Marshall believes is worth preserving, it’s wrapping her products in old-fashioned butcher-shop paper, not plastic. It hasn’t always been that way: when the shop opened one year ago this month, most […]
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Mark Butler announces resignation from Ecology Action Centre
After 23 years with the Ecology Action Centre, policy director Mark Butler is resigning. In an email to members Butler says he’ll be finishing up in October 2019. “This is an incredible place to work there’s amazing people here…There’s lots of energy in the organization. This is a good time for me to leave,” says […]
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Everything wrong with Nova Scotia’s forestry review
Raymond Plourde is trying to be optimistic about the province’s new forestry review, but it’s a struggle. At best, says the Ecology Action Centre’s wilderness coordinator, the report is a mixed bag. The overarching idea to prioritize forest protection is laudable. But there are still some glaring omissions and dangerous proposals in the long-awaited document. […]
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The Ecology Action Centre’s unsustainable ecosystem
No one’s speaking, but beneath the surface there’s disquiet. Over 60 supporters of the Ecology Action Centre rustle in their seats at the not-for-profit’s annual general meeting last week, inside the Halifax Forum’s Maritime Hall. For the first time ever, the media is in attendance. Reporters are placed off to the side by the cake […]
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Q&A: Sadie Beaton on the Shades of Green environmental podcast
Sadie Beaton is exploring the meaning of environmental justice—but she didn’t want to do it through an academic paper. Beaton, who has been part of The Ecology Action Centre team for 14 years, started a broadcast interview series under the title Shades of Green in 2016. Shades of Green launched its second season on February […]
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Believe in Nova Scotia, not coal-fired billionaires
Last week the owners of the Donkin coal mine in Cape Breton laid off 49 workers, or just over 35 percent of the mine’s workforce. The bad news was delivered to the workers without warning from Kameron Coal, a subsidiary of the Cline Group, which is owned by US billionaire Chris Cline. Although the mine […]
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Best Activist Organization
Gold Winner and Hall of Fame inductee Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner The Youth Project Bronze Winner Autism Nova Scotia Editor’s note: With its 2017 Best Activist Organization win marking at least 10 golds in a row, the EAC joins the Best of Halifax Hall of Fame. It’s hard to call the Ecology Action Centre […]
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10 local activist organizations making a difference
Yelling into the void on Twitter about what’s wrong in the world is easy. That’s why we all do it. But there are plenty of people in Halifax who are walking the walk—whether it be advocating for the environment, mobilizing for social change or working to provide services to marginalized groups. These groups are examples […]
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The EAC’s perfect plates
It’s going to be a Perfect World on Sunday. No, Kevin Costner hasn’t escaped from prison. On Sunday, the Ecology Action Centre is hosting its signature annual fundraiser. “As environmentalists, we are idealists,” says Joanna Bull, the EAC’s volunteer and events coordinator. “We’re trying to make the world better; we’re trying to create a more […]
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Welcome to the newly-renovated Ecology Action Centre
[Image-1] Throughout the 45 years they’ve been around, the Ecology Action Centre has had its history of different office homes. There wasn’t much here in 2006, when the not-for-profit moved into its current location at 2705 Fern Lane. Today, Friday, April 22, the EAC is opening its newly-refurbished doors to show off some of […]
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Garrison’s Backlot Bash with July Talk, Three Sheet and more
Gear up to get beer’d up: this Friday, March 11, tickets go on sale for Garrison Brewing’s second annual Backlot Bash, featuring musical performances from Toronto blues rockers July Talk, Halifax rappers Three Sheet, ECMA winners Alert the Medic and local upstarts The Brood at the all-night, open-air parking lot party festival in support of the Ecology […]
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Best Activist Organization
Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Solidarity Halifax Bronze Winner South House It’s a busy time over at the Ecology Action Centre. Membership’s at an all-time high, and the gold winner spent the past year engaging on everything from genetically modified salmon to climate change. The EAC is now prepping delegates for the upcoming […]