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Pam Sullivan Pam Sullivan

Mapping our future

One NSCC researcher says the key to avoiding the worst of in-land flooding during increasingly more common, more severe storm events is to get ahead of them with potentially life-saving predictive mapping.

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Matthew McIntosh Matthew McIntosh

Adapting and adopting

How drought is impacting Nova Scotia farmers, and what they’re doing about it.

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Elizabeth Peirce Elizabeth Peirce

Bringing It Home

Leveraging carbon credits as a source of funding for local non-profits.

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Alison Auld Alison Auld

Stepping up with (re)purpose

One impressive Nova Scotian shows the huge impact one person can make as she and fellow volunteers collect garbage from Nova Scotia shorelines ­— to the tune of a million and a half pounds since 2020 — giving much of it a second life.

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Pam Sullivan Pam Sullivan

Keeping it in the ground

A Dalhousie-led group of university researchers is working to map one of our biggest assets in our fight against climate change – our soil.

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Mary-Frances Lynch Mary-Frances Lynch

A green path to self-determination

A development partnership between the thirteen Mi’kmaw communities in Nova Scotia means a more environmentally sustainable and economically secure future going forward.

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Zack Metcalfe Zack Metcalfe

A different kind of farmer

Vertical, hydroponic farming in Atlantic Canada is an increasingly smart way to get your greens in a time of growing geopolitical uncertainty, food insecurity, and climate change.

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Philip Moscovitch Philip Moscovitch

Going above and beyond…bake sales

One passionate and persevering Pictou County councillor finds a (net zero) way to keep the lights on, and the doors open in community buildings in small town Nova Scotia.

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Philip Moscovitch Philip Moscovitch

From Mars to maggots

One Nova Scotia entrepreneur and former NASA research scientist uses fly larvae to turn food waste into feed and fertilizer.

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Zack Metcalfe Zack Metcalfe

Out of sky, out of mind

A look at the myriad of solutions to pull carbon out of the atmosphere — here in Nova Scotia, in other areas of the country, and internationally.

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Mary-Frances Lynch Mary-Frances Lynch

A final footprint

More and more people are looking at the idea of a green burial as a way to help the planet even as they make plans to leave it.

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Philip Moscovitch Philip Moscovitch

A more joyful approach

One Nova Scotia renewable energy company is learning about the power of connection through Indigenous partnerships.

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Elizabeth Peirce Elizabeth Peirce

Going with the flow

Halifax Water is making clean, efficient energy from moving water… and that’s not all.

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