It’s been a big two years for Diandra Phipps and Cory Urquhart‘s north end vegan eatery enVie: A Vegan Kitchen. After taking their farmers’ market based business to the next level and opening a restaurant at 5775 Charles Street, they’ve added cooking classes, juice cleanses and catering to their roster of offerings—on top of being […]
Ecology Action Centre (EAC)
Posted inNews + Opinion
Ecology Action Centre is on the road again
[Image-1]

Moving always sucks. But the Ecology Action Centre promises it’ll be worth it in the end. 
The environmental charity is undergoing some exciting renovations to its current Fern Lane headquarters starting in May. In order to make room, the EAC will be squatting roughly two kilometres away at their temporary location at 1888 Brunswick Street. […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Activist Organization
Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre
 Silver Winner Solidarity Halifax
 Bronze Winner South House 
 Don’t say the Ecology Action Centre isn’t busy. The winners of this year’s Best Activist Organization have the continued honour of existing in a province with abundant natural resources and a government that keeps messing them up. The EAC had been […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Giving credit where it’s due
[Image-1] On Thursday, something truly miraculous happened. Something that happens once in a blue moon, in a dog’s age, in a right smart spell—the environmental movement won something. And it was good. The Wheeler panel on fracking turned over its recommendations to Energy Minister Andrew Younger, and they were a lot better than most people […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Activist Organization
Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project Bronze Winner Solidarity Halifax The Ecology Action Centre is 42 years old, but the organization remains in the forefront of important environmental activism, most recently urging the newly elected McNeil government to abandon its short-sighted plan to alter funding for Efficiency Nova Scotia. […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Not your Garden variety Party
“It’s our annual coming-of-summer fundraiser,” says the Ecology Action Centre’s Stephanie Hughes of the centre’s 15th annual outdoor brouhaha. “It’s our largest fundraiser so through this event which includes a plant sale—hence garden party—silent auction and live auction, we raise thousands of dollars for EAC projects and core expenses.” Hosted by CBC Radio’s Olga Milosevich, […]
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Activist Organization
Gold Winner Ecology Action Centre Silver Winner Halifax Refugee Clinic Bronze Winner Nova Scotia Rainbow Action Project Seven time gold winner Ecology Action Centre is the little org that could, and can. Founded as a class project for the Living Ecology course at Dalhousie University in 1971, the organization almost immediately found its activist legs […]
Posted inArts + Music
Eco-Innovators
The Coast’s Sustainable City columnist Chris Benjamin doesn’t just talk the talk, you know. Benjamin launches his second book Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada on Tuesday, October 11 (7pm, McCain Building, 6135 University). Eco-Innovators is a collection of stories about Nova Scotia’s sustainability leaders. Benjamin compiled stories from “entrepreneurs and educators, activists and agitators, farmers […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
NS environmental groups question Lower Churchill project
Sierra Club Atlantic and Ecology Action Centre urge Nova Scotia to consider alternatives to the Lower Churchill electricity project.
Posted inBest of Halifax
Best Activist Organization
The EAC continues to be at the vanguard of the environmental movement in Nova Scotia. With its eye on everything from urban gardening to salmon aquaculture, biomass to public transit in rural areas, the organization does its best to save the planet from Nova Scotia. And in September the EAC will participate in the Feed-In […]
Posted inNews + Opinion
Environmentalists welcome Sable announcement
Federal and provincial governments announce Sable Island will be designated a national park after extensive public consultations.
Posted inNews + Opinion
Halifax MP calls for help to save climate bill
Halifax MP, Megan Leslie calls on Nova Scotians to phone or e-mail Liberal and Conservative MPs to ask them to support NDP climate change bill.