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Sleeman Breweries was chosen for supporting local green teams, has an environmental steering committee, and maintains a partnership with Random Acts of Green during Earth Month.

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, or maybe soil? While death care often involves embalming bodies, burial in coffins or cremation, the demand for green burial options is growing.

“The occupants in the lighter vehicle are always going to come out worse,” one expert says about growing electric vehicle safety fears.

First launched in 1996, the focus of the campaign is litter prevention and clean-ups across the city, including a large community-wide clean-up event on Earth Day.

An invasive species capable of killing whole trees has been confirmed to be in hemlocks on Hamilton and Royal Botanical Gardens (RBG) property, says CFIA.

Police said the arrests came as they served warrants related to allegations a group of people “swarmed” a Coastal GasLink worker with flares and stole a chainsaw from their truck.

Businesses in Vancouver will no longer be required to charge a fee for single-use cups as of May 1, a move that reverses a decision by the previous city council.

The Vancouver Park board’s Heron Cam allows viewers to get an up-close look at the herons’ nests, and even control the camera for one minute at a time.