Cayley Elcombe has called West Vancouver home for the past 11 years, after spending the first decade of her life growing up in Winnipeg. Her love for conservation and biodiversity on the North Shore led her to apply for Ocean Wise’s Ocean Bridge program. Through her year-long experience with Ocean Wise’s Ocean Bridge 2020 program, … Continued
Article by Ocean Wise’s Plastics Lab teamShreyas Patankar, Catherine Wong, Amir Parizi, Mathew Watkins, Stephanie Wang, Anna Posacka How can technology help us understand, visualize, and make predictions about the crisis of plastics in our oceans? The Ocean Wise Plastics Lab partnered with tech and community organizations including RLadies, PyLadies, SFU Scientific Programming, Women in … Continued
Written By: Laura BordenPhoto credit: Lee Newman Climate change. It’s one of the most talked about and significant threats facing ocean health. Carbon dioxide emissions are causing declines of ocean pH. And ocean warming is impacting species range and survival. Climate change also impacts our annual weather patterns, locally and globally. Just five years ago, … Continued
Acheter local et écoresponsable vous tiens à cœur !? Ne cherchez pas plus loin, car Ocean Wise Seafood recommande des espèces locales du milieu marin québécois! À l’épicerie ou à la poissonnerie, il est souvent difficile de savoir quelles espèces sont considérées comme écoresponsable. Afin de faciliter votre vie, ce blogue présent plusieurs produits de … Continued
Author: Jennifer Chapman Cover photo: Looking towards the mouth of Átl’ḵa7tsem/Txwnéwu7ts/Howe Sound. (Credit: Amanda Weltman) Do you know what Átl’ka7tsem and Txwnéwu7ts refer to? Do you know what language they are? They are the Skwxwú7mesh Snichim/Squamish language names for Howe Sound, a coastal, ice-carved fjord cut into mountains, located beside Vancouver. Átl’ka7tsem/Txwnéwu7tsHowe Sound lies within … Continued
Buying local and sustainable seafood is important to you!? Look no further, because Ocean Wise Seafood recommends local species from Quebec! At the grocery store or at the fish market, it is often difficult to know which species are considered environmentally friendly. So to make your life easier, this blog features several sustainable seafood products … Continued
By: Kaitlin Yehle, MSc Student The skies of metro Vancouver have been an orange haze for much of September; smoke from wildfires to the south, in Washington, Oregon and California, sitting heavy in the air. For me, it’s a tickle at the back of my throat, but I am privileged to be one of those … Continued
Ocean Wise Seafood is excited to announce our new partnership with Calgary Co-op, a grocery chain with 23 locations across Calgary. Calgary Co-op customers will now see the Ocean Wise logo on many of the seafood products at their fresh counter as well as frozen sections. Calgary Co-op prides itself on sourcing sustainable products that … Continued
French translation to follow Cooking for Conservation is a cookbook designed to connect you with the positive impact you can make when you cook with Ocean Wise recommended restorative seafood – species that improve the quality of ocean habitats as they are grown – seaweed and bivalve shellfish. These species are “restorative” because they clean … Continued
Eli Lusty is the founder of Carbon Labels Canada, and lives and works in Halifax, N.S. He earned his Bachelor of Economics at Carleton University, where he says he learned about the power of aggregate choices. Eli Lusty, a young leader in Halifax, Nova Scotia, is making a difference in his community and beyond as a member of … Continued
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