Silent Spring
This event kicked off the environmental movement in the US and raised public awareness about pollution
What is Silent Spring?
You look at fish,
It might make a nice dish,
You're happy to see,
It is fished sustainably...
What is an ecolabel?
What is the Marine Stewardship Council?
This area collects rain and surface water from an area and also forms management units for conservation authorities
What is a watershed?
This legislation was brought in to reduce the number of microbeads in cosmetic products in Canada.
What is the Microbeads in Toiletries Act?
This government program uses a secondary market to trade pollution credits
What is cap-and-trade?
This ENGO helped start a recycling wave by collecting phonebooks.
What is Pollution Probe?
Sugar and spice and everything lice,
A bit of me in the sea will reduce lice substantially
What are lumpfish?
This common additive at wastewater treatment plants helps prevent eutrophication.
What is ferric solution?
I recycled my bottle instead of throwing it away
Feeling good, so no need to do anything else today
What is complacency?
This type of pollution is particularly damaging at this size
The Federal and Provincial Governments share environmental responsibilities. However, this responsibility may be split between the Federal or the Provincial government, depending on the circumstances.
What are environmental assessments?
The arrival of industrialized agriculture that our food systems started to exert a stronger influence on the environment.
What is the green revolution?
These two mechanisms lead to sea level rise.
What are changes to the cryosphere and thermal sea level rise?
Most of the plastics ever created have been discarded. Even this end-of-life option for plastics has been used more than recycling...
What is incineration?
This is the largest source of mercury pollution globally
What is small-scale mining?
In this carbon tax design, individual citizens are given back the money accumulated from the tax.
What are per-capita divdends?
This dietary change could "free up several million square kilometers of land" and help mitigate against greenhouse gas emissions
What is no animal-source food?
We were friends before, but now no more
It's time for you to go, I'm starting to look like snow
What is coral bleaching?
These colourful waste receptacles for recycling end up as part of the recycling stream themselves once they've been opened
What are recycling bags (blue bags)?
This pollutant is found in two places, but only dangerous in one!
What is ozone?
If we are ever going to reduce climate emissions below 2° C, major emitting countries will have to become significantly more ambitious with this aspect of their climate policy
What are nationally determined contributions (NDCs)?
Methane release from organics at the London landfill would be a lot more if we didn't do this!
What is the gas flare?
This crop was the source of the 2011 Lake Erie algal bloom.
What is maize (corn)?
These items are the six items included as part of the Canadian government ban on plastic.
What are:
The five pollutants monitored by the Province of Ontario
What are: