Climate

PeterReid

Cleaning Dirt for the Climate

Construction digs up vast amounts of contaminated soil. GRT Resource Regeneration found a low-carbon way to transform it for new uses.

By: Andrew Findlay

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CambridgeCreekWetlands

The Thriving Business of Rewilding

How wizards of wetlands restoration are bringing biodiversity back to West Coast landscapes.

By: Isaac Phan Nay

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A forest of Giant kelp, Macrocystis pyrifera, grows in the cold eastern Pacific waters that flow along the California coast. Kelp forests support a surprising and diverse array of marine biodiversity.

Adventures in West Coast Kelp Farming

Meet hardy harvesters in Alaska and BC working to make a regenerative seaweed industry flourish.

By: Tim Lydon

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Eel grass

Eelgrass Is Amazing. Here’s Who’s Saving It

Coastal livelihoods as well as our climate depend on the undersea fronds. Even a small buoy can play protector.

By: Pippa Norman

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The visitor’s centre at VanDusen Botanical Garden, completed in 2011. Globally, ‘BC is still probably the hotbed of design and knowledge’ for mass timber, says Tobias Fast of Fast + Epp, whose firm handled structural engineering for the project designed by architects Perkins&Will. StructureCraft supplied the wood elements. Photo by Nic Lehoux.

Building the Future with Wood

Meet people reinventing construction by pushing ‘mass timber’ bigger and higher. It’s good for the planet too.

By: Christopher Cheung

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