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This Canadian company is planning to grow tomatoes using heat from computers

by Alex Robinson

QScale is building a 130-acre data centre campus in Lévis, Quebec, where it will use warmth from servers to grow more than

fertilizer emissions
Food

Despite conservative outcry, reducing fertilizer emissions won’t lead to famine

by Michael von Massow, Alfons Weersink and Claudia Wagner-Riddle

While hysteria has spread about the federal government's emissions reduction plan for agriculture, fears of food shortages are exaggerated

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Food

Feds, provinces reach agreement to boost funding for regenerative agriculture

by Alex Robinson

Some sustainable farming advocates say it's a step in the right direction, but more ambitious emissions targets are needed

Fall 2021/Food

Are sustainable poultry claims all they’re cracked up to be?

by Jessica Scott-Reid

The chicken industry says its meat is better for the planet than beef, but efficiency claims come with setbacks for animal welfare

Chemical fertilizer alternative unearthed by startup
Food/Summer 2021

B.C. start-up unearthing low-carbon solutions for growing food

by Roberta Staley

The world's most popular fertilizer is exacerbating the climate crisis. Can biofertilizers be part of the solution?

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CK TV: Watch our roundtable on Building Back Better with Forests and Farms

by CK Staff

Watch episode 5 from our Green Recovery roundtable series on Corporate Knights TV: Building Back Better with Forests and Farms.   Discussion hosted

carbon management in Canada
Climate Crisis/Planning for a Green Recovery

Roundtable urges feds to dramatically scale up support for nature-based climate solutions

by Shawn McCarthy

Canada could reap sizeable economic and environmental gains by supporting better carbon management in our forests and on our farms, which are

Natural Capital/Planning for a Green Recovery

Building Back Better with nature-based climate solutions

by Ralph Torrie and Céline Bak

  The history of Canada and its people is largely written in the history of its agricultural and forestry ecosystems, and the

Winter 2020

The farmer and the philanthropist

by Jordan MacInnis

In the first season of Les Fermiers, a hit French-Canadian TV show about vegetable farming in Hemmingford, Quebec, Dany Bouchard, a young

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