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Solar powered off grid greenhouse Sagkeeng First Nations Youth in Manitoba
Innovation

First Nations Youth in Manitoba bringing food security to their community with a clean energy powered greenhouse

The Sagkeeng First Nation is a Treaty-1, 3 and 5 First Nation in the Eastman Region of Manitoba, where two young and ambitious members of the community have undertaken a project to build a clean energy-powered greenhouse to provide urgently needed affordable food security for their community. The project visionaries ar...

Green Roof on Canadian Grocery Store
Environment

Green roof on Canadian grocery store offers truly local produce

...vegetables and greens vegetables, everything from standard home garden fare like lettuce and tomatoes, to eggplant, squash and kale.  Why have a green roof? One of the societal benefits of a green roof is that it manages its own rainwater runoff, where most commercial buildings send storm water to municipal water treat...