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Vortex Turbine

Mycelium

Modular, scalable, and smart wind energy systems

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Mycelium

Vortex Turbine

Mycelium

Why fungi could be the future of environmentally sustainable building materials

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Vortex Turbine

Vortex Turbine

Vortex Turbine

 An eco-friendly way to harness energy from rivers and canals with a low height difference

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Stockholm Central Station

Stockholm Central Station

Stockholm Central Station

The building that steals body heat

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The River That's a Person

Stockholm Central Station

Stockholm Central Station

What if you gave the rights of a human to the land?

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Restoring a Wetland

Stockholm Central Station

Restoring a Wetland

The fishermen reviving Finland's scarred wastelands

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Depaving Paradise

Little Forests Kingston

Depaving Paradise

Breaking up areas of unused pavement and turning them into living green spaces 

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Sponge Parks

Little Forests Kingston

Depaving Paradise

Using nature to solve flooding problems

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Little Forests Kingston

Little Forests Kingston

Little Forests Kingston

Transforming Kingston into a nature friendly and equitable city in a forest by 2030

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Ways to Help

Rooftop Greenhouses in Canada

Rooftop Greenhouses in Canada

Rooftop Greenhouses in Canada

Canada's Lufa Farms grow food on rooftops! Lots.

Learn about Lufa Farms!

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Rooftop Greenhouses in Canada

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EVEN MORE new ideas to check out :

There are many new solutions across Canada & the world addressing issues of Climate Change. Enjoy learning!. Here are a few general sites to start you off, then a few specific websites to explore:

 
 

1. The Solutions Project- https://thesolutionsproject.org/what-we-do/inspiring-action/why-clean-energy/ (an interactive map. Choose a country or city nearby to see how they could be completely fossil free by 2050).


2. David Suzuki Foundation: Search under “Climate Solutions” under “Our Work”. (See short video on “Kanaka Bar”)


3 Search the “Earthshot Prizes”, and “Ten Unbelievable New Ways of Generating Electricity” (makeuseof.com) and the James Dyson Awards! 


4. Articles from “The Oxygen Project”, eg. “22 Ways to Save the Planet”


5. https://www.quanta-cs.com/blogs/2021-4/5-most-innovative-solutions-in-renewable-energy


6. 10 Green Technologies that will change the world:

https://medium.com/climate-conscious/10-green-technologies-that-will-change-the-world-9f7a709c1a15 


7. Search “green walls” around the world, or “living green walls”, eg. Bosco Verticale in Milan. See “how to” by city of Sydney, Austrailia


8. https://www.sciencefocus.com/future-technology/future-technology-22-ideas-about-to-change-our-world/


9. https://www.nature.org/en-us/what-we-do/our-insights/perspectives/nature-tech-future-now/


10. Grist Magazine: https://grist.org/fix/.  This online magazine often shows great projects being used.


11. Look up Miyawaki Tiny Forests, being planted around the world.  Imagine small urban forests scattered broadly through the cities, in part of large parking lots, in part of every park--a ribbon of green biodiversity for human health and planetary health.  "A city in a forest."


12. Algae for supper? Or crickets?

https://grist.org/fix/food-farming/algae-farms-alternative-climate-resilient-protein/?fbclid=IwAR0RiP9W2dIGK-Ogy7pHrIrjW6NQzP5xrIJYHmSyCgqCGvd6ptsaSeaObs0


13. Watch this great show " 2040 ". It can be seen using Kanopy streaming services and a KFPL library card. https://www.kanopy.com/en/kfplWonderful solutions for the future!


14.                              Re-designing your city: (6  ideas)

1. Green rooves (or solar)? A large, flat roof on a store or plaza, hotel or parking garage is wasted space. A biodiverse meadow under solar panels? A food garden? You name it. Check this article out-- read these subtitles on the way to the photos of some amazing green rooves which exist right now. One is in Canada:

https://www.conserve-energy-future.com/green-roof-types-benefits-examples.php


2. Multi-family homes? Do they have to be tall concrete apartment buildings? Making concrete has created wars over sand and uses a lot of carbon. Yet, continuing to clearcut forests to build one-house-on-a-lawn neighbourhoods that stretch on forever, is not great either. 

Have a look at these neighbourhoods!

https://www.euronews.com/green/2021/10/19/welcome-to-the-milan-apartments-where-300-humans-live-in-harmony-with-21-000-trees

OR…

https://living-future.org/lbc/?utm_source=bing&utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=LBC&msclkid=d59c1bd2a641194f480e788bb2901831

OR… low rise eco buildings to create communities? There are hundreds of them built across Victoria, B.C., with trees all around. Sometimes, on the fourth floor, your wide deck has a small garden and you can reach out and touch a mature tree. (We are trying to find photos of them all.)

https://www.dreamstime.com/brand-new-low-rise-apartment-building-sunny-day-british-columbia-canada-brand-new-apartment-building-sunny-day-british-image154306100


3. City traffic? Does it seem that cars have more space and rights than humans sometimes?

In Paris, France, constant terrible car traffic was what everyone saw. Then…

see NBC article: https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/paris-olympics-city-reduce-air-pollution-rcna153470

 
 

OR… in Waterloo & Kitchener, Ontario, they laid a train track right up the main streets! See their new Light Rail Transit. Very fast and quiet!

https://youtu.be/aCmTtmci-bE


4. Are there rivers near you with a good flow? You can create electricity from them. Have a peek:

https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1560109986755145729?s=20&t=yQRX9sJ4AgU7l5EhF57YDg


5. Do you live on barren land near salty ocean water? Try this:

https://twitter.com/MikeHudema/status/1562945964528508929?s=20&t=TkkQ6oima5mkzbk4aEo2jg

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