This page highlights important ways to get involved in environmentalism. Including petitions, events, and more! It is constantly being updated but there are endless ways to support environmental activism that I encourage you to explore outside of the links below!
Support environmental orgs
The below list links ways to directly donate or generally support the vital actions being taken by key Canadian environmental NGOs (eNGOs)!
- Donate to or support Ecojustice Canada
- Donate to or support World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Canada
- Donate to or support Greenpeace Canada
- Donate to or support Environmental Defence Canada
- Donate to or support Sierra Club Canada
- Donate to or support Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) Canada
- Donate to or support Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society (CPAWS)
Petitions
Tell your MP and Senators to oppose the undemocratic Building Canada Act under Bill C-5 (Ecojustice Canada)
This Act, like Ford’s Bill 5, will trample over environmental and health protections, First Nations rights, and public participation in development decisions. It will also allow Oil and Gas and other huge projects to operate without government accountability or oversight.
Urge Doug Ford to support the Protect Our Food Act (Green Party of Ontario)
Ontario loses 319 acres of farmland a day. This Act would create a Foodbelt that is legally protected from urban sprawl.
Tell Minister Dabrusin and your MP to stop fueling wildfires (Ecojustice Canada)
As our provinces burn, federal and provincial governments continue to invest in expanding the oil and gas industry.
Speak out against Bill 5: As described in one of my recent blog posts, Bill 5 stands to destroy Ontario’s species at risk protections, give developers free reign, and trample First Nations rights. See below for the many ways you can speak out against Bill 5:
Call on Canada to pass a strong nature protection law (Greenpeace Canada)
Canadian policies protecting nature and biodiversity are sparse and weak. A sustainable, vibrant future for Canada requires a strong Nature and Biodiversity Act, developed in collaboration with Indigenous Peoples.
Sign the petition here!!
Read Greenpeace Canada’s Protecting Nature, Protecting Life report.
Defend vital old-growth forests in British Columbia (Greenpeace Canada)
BC’s old growth forests are some of the most spectacular forests on Earth, holding immense biodiversity and residing on the territories of countless First Nations. BC Premier John Horgan has not properly defended these forests as he promised.
Sign the petition here!!
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Abby Shin 