Small, locally focused, nonprofits are making an environmental impact. Discover how to align your actions with organizations that prioritize sustainability.

Nonprofits Are Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Sustainability Initiatives

Protect our planet better. Sustainability is the foundation of natural health. We teach you how to embrace a more sustainable lifestyle, one step at a time, because a healthier planet means a healthier you.

Sustainability

None of Canada's caribou are doing very well. Here's why you should care—and how you can help ensure these unique animals stick around.

Canada's Caribou: What We Can Do to Save These Unique Animals | alive

Caribou

Life is about balance. We provide you with strategies for a lifelong commitment to strength and well-being in all areas of your life. 

Lifestyle

Just in time for World Wildlife Day on March 3, here are quick, small changes you can make around the house and yard to help wildlife near and far.

environment

Our fine feathered friends are under threat. Here’s how you can keep birdlife safe in the face of avian influenza.

Wildlife

Natural is the way. We bring you credible approaches to preventative health, holistic treatments, and supportive supplements.

Health

Even if you’re not a forager, you can take inspiration from these recipes that feature everything from wild game and mushrooms to berries, nuts, and herbs.

Meats

Food is medicine. It all starts here. We create recipes with functional, whole organic ingredients that nourish your body and feed your soul. 

Food

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Pink Shirt Day falls on February 24th. Wear pink and take a stand against bullying.

Pink Shirt Day

Enews

Life without water cannot be. Although Canada is home to 20 percent of the world’s water supply, protecting freshwater is still an urgent concern.

Protecting Freshwater: Why It's More Important Than Ever | alive

Water Quality

For many people, animals are beings that exist wholly separate and external to us. Thus, the idea of “ethical meat” boils down to specific factors such as whether an animal is free range, caught sustainably, or slaughtered humanely.

green pets

Our environment is in crisis, so here are some practical ways you can make a difference in 2024.

The key to success might just be finding your why. For Dan Caldwell (founder of MMA gear giant, TapouT), success was all about supporting his family.

Finding Your Why: TapouT Founder Shares How He Stays Strong | alive

Entrepreneurship

Microbiome

Big city hustle and bustle got you down? Learn more about how nature affects your mental health.

Nature

We’ve got your Monday to Friday vegan eats covered with barbecue classics, international favourites, and salads that satisfy.

Vegan Meal Plan: A Week of Divine Plant-Based Dinners | alive

Vegan Recipes

Does the idea of planning, pruning, and weeding put you off when gardening? Then chaos gardening could be for you.

Chaos Gardening Could Be for You

Organic Gardening

It took days to get the sand out of our clothes and the salt out of our hair. But one thing we’ll never get rid of: the bliss of a Tofino escape.

Tofino Escape: The Best Way to Explore Canada’s Surfing Capital | alive

Surfing

Can you imagine a world without rhinos? With poaching levels rising, that may be where we’re heading. And it all starts with bogus claims about rhino horns.

Rhinos on the Run: Illegal Trade Threatens This Animal's Survival | alive

Breathe some life into your workout routine. Trail running provides a change of pace, plus singing birds, panoramic vistas, and fresh air.

The Dirt on Trail Running: Tips for Getting Started | alive

Running

Fitness

For our species, water is life. Yet we have disrespected this essential resource in endless ways. Billion Oyster Project and Sophie’s Kitchen are two organizations taking different approaches with the same goal—to restore, preserve, and protect the waters that sustain us.

wildlife wednesday

How Nonprofits Are Shaping the Future of Our Planet

Innovation For Good: Chum Bites and WildAid

Saving What's Left of the Caribou

Love Cute Wildlife? You Can Show It

How to Keep Birdlife Safe in the Face of Avian Influenza

Leftovers Reimagined

Food from the Forest

Canada’s Green Energy Future - Additional Resources

Water Supplies from the Ground Up - Additional Resources

Celebrate Pink Shirt Day

Save Our Drinking Water

Seeing Ethical Meat Through an Indigenous Lens

5 Tips to Keep Your Pets Green and Happy

The Most Pressing Environmental Issues in 2024

Finding Your Why

Rewilding Urban Spaces

Rewilding Urban Spaces

A Week of Living Vegan

Garden Variety

Escape to the Wild Side

Rhinos on the Run

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The Dirt on Trail Running

Innovation For Good: Billion Oyster Project and Sophie's Kitchen