Fredericton Business Aims To Help Restore Native Land Through Craft
In an effort to educate the community and restore Fredericton’s native land, RB Studio Art Centre and Gallery introduces a new way to craft.
In an effort to educate the community and restore Fredericton’s native land, RB Studio Art Centre and Gallery introduces a new way to craft.
Atlantic Canada’s many clean energy resources – wind turbines, New Brunswick’s burgeoning market for small modular nuclear reactors, and hydroelectric resources across the region – are the “perfect mix,” to enable Atlantic Canada to become a hydrogen hub.
Sponsored: In an era in which the costs of living and doing business continue to rise, natural gas is bucking that trend and has saved New Brunswickers over $45-million in the last five years.
Hive has seen evidence of an eastward migration in Canada, with the firm getting one-to-two calls a week from people from Ontario and British Columbia, originally from Atlantic Canada, looking to move back east.
Minister of Environment and Climate Change Jonathan Wilkinson announced a plan to phase out grocery bags, straws, stir sticks, six-pack rings, plastic cutlery and food takeout containers made from hard-to-recycle plastics.
The Fredericton-based Gaia Project has adapted its school programming about the environment and climate change for home-based, online learning during the coronavirus crisis.
The protestors say the country shouldn’t be supporting any fossil fuel energy projects, including the renewed push to extract natural gas resources in New Brunswick.
Luc Leger, who will save 300,000 bags with the ban, says family-owned businesses and small operations that are preparing for similar moves need to start early to get staff and customers on board.
For Tylleen Yeh and her family, the world’s reliance on plastic is something they want to change. They now sell compostable straws made out of sugarcane fiber, based on technology from their native Taiwan.
Some people may find composting during the summer a challenge, but it doesn’t have to be.