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November 21, 2023
  • Featured
  • Green Jobs

Communications Coordinator – Manitoba Association of Watersheds

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November 15, 2023
  • Green Jobs

Community Engagement Coordinator Lake Winnipeg Foundation

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November 15, 2023
  • Featured
  • Green Jobs

Environmental Marketing Coordinator Manitoba Eco-Network

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October 26, 2023
  • Featured
  • Navigating the Law

Environmental Rights & Beyond: Rights-based Approaches to Environmental Protection

Rights based legal approaches to protection of the environment, human health, and animals have been…
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September 26, 2023
  • Eco-Net
  • Featured

Navigating the Law: Series 2 starts October! 

Manitoba Eco-Network’s free legal education webinars are back for a second series this fall with…
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September 18, 2023
  • Featured
  • Volunteers

Volunteer Opportunity: Youth Nature Keepers

Welcome to the Youth Nature Keepers Network – Canadian Council on Invasive Species! Join youth-led…
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September 13, 2023
  • Eco-Net
  • Featured

2023 Environmental & Climate Change Forum

On Tuesday, August 29, candidates took to the floor at the Environment and Climate Change…
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August 8, 2023
  • Eco-Net

Opinion: Critical Concerns about Manitoba’s Minerals Strategy

Last month, the Province of Manitoba released their new Critical Minerals Strategy. Our op-ed with…
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July 1, 2023
  • Climate Safe, Green City

Interview with Streets community newspaper about climate resilience in inner-city Winnipeg

Our summer students from the University of Winnipeg Department of Inner City Studies participated in…
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June 26, 2023
  • Climate Safe, Green City

CSGC team raises awareness of climate resilience at the 2023 Ellice St. Festival

On a bright summer Saturday, The Climate Safe, Green City team participated in the Ellice…
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June 12, 2023
  • Eco-Net

CSGC team attends the Spence Neighbourhood summer safety meeting

In early June 2023, the Climate Safe, Green City team hosted a table at the…
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May 23, 2023
  • Climate Safe, Green City
  • Eco-Net

West End Resource Centre Grand Opening

Manitoba Eco-Network was happy to be a part of the West End Resource Centre’s grand…
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May 20, 2023
  • Climate Safe, Green City

Climate Safe team joins the West End Resource Centre open house

The Climate Safe, Green City team was happy to participate in an open house to…
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August 16, 2022
  • Board and Team

Trish Fitzpatrick

Member-at-Large My pronouns are she/her. I am a Professor in the Department of Geography, and…
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June 1, 2022
  • Board and Team

Karen Fletcher

Karen Fletcher (MN BN BA) has retired from a career in palliative and oncology nursing…
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May 3, 2022
  • Eco-Net

Message from the Manitoba Eco-Network

Spring has seemed quite far away from Manitoba during this past month. The strangeness of…
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May 3, 2022
  • Eco-Net

What We’ve Been up To

The month of April brought many opportunities for policy advocacy. Our most significant policy push…
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April 11, 2022
  • Board and Team

Cameron Hunter

Cameron Hunter is a Policy Analyst at the International Institute for Sustainable Development working on…
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April 15, 2021
  • Navigating the Law

Reconciliation and Environmental Law

The theme of reconciliation is significant in Canada’s current legal, cultural, and political movement. In…
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March 29, 2021
  • Board and Team

Stacey Chaboyer

Stacey Chaboyer grew up in Winnipeg and her roots are in Norway House Cree Nation…
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March 11, 2021
  • Navigating the Law

Amplifying Voices: Getting Involved in Environmental Decisions

Throughout Canada, decision-making on environmentally impactful project proposals is subject to regulatory processes through which…
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February 11, 2021
  • Navigating the Law

Feet on the ground: Your rights when you protest

People living in Canada have often opted to voice their opinions and advocate for change…
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February 9, 2021
  • Eco-Net
  • Navigating the Law

Access to Environmental Justice: A Manitoba Toolkit for Improving Public Participation

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December 14, 2020
  • Board and Team

Vicki Burns

Vicki Burns is a graduate of the University of Manitoba’s School of Social Work. After…
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November 12, 2020
  • Navigating the Law

Are Class Actions the way to go?

Class action lawsuits present an opportunity for many individuals to join forces in taking on…
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October 8, 2020
  • Navigating the Law

Accessing Legislative Change

Environmental law is created by legislators through the legislative process. This process is open to…
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September 10, 2020
  • Navigating the Law

Environmental Racism and the Law

Environmental racism occurs when a law, policy, or practice differently affects or disadvantages individuals, groups,…
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March 29, 2020
  • Board and Team

Chantel Henderson

Chantel currently works for the Green Action Centre as their Indigenous Programs Outreach Coordinator. Recently, she completed…
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March 29, 2020
  • Board and Team

Lindsay Robinson

Lindsay Robinson is a professional engineer with a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, as…
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March 29, 2020
  • Board and Team

Phil Lancaster

Phil Lancaster (LLB, LLM) spent the majority of his work career as a consultant with…
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September 17, 2019
  • Board and Team

Dr. Kirit Patel

Dr. Kirit Patel is an Associate Professor of International Development Studies at the Menno Simons…
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March 7, 2019
  • Board and Team

Heather Fast

Heather is a Ph.D. student at the University of Manitoba’s Natural Resources Institute. She also…
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March 7, 2019
  • Board and Team

Josh Brandon

Josh Brandon is a community animator with the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. He conducts public…
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October 30, 2018
  • Board and Team

Kathryn Dompierre

Kathryn is a Research and Development Engineer for the software company, GEO-SLOPE, working to improve…
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October 29, 2018
  • Board and Team

Laura Tyler

Laura Tyler has only been in Manitoba a few years but that hasn’t stopped her…
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January 30, 2018
  • Eco-Net

How to Reduce your Water Consumption

If you were tuning into Global News yesterday you might have seen our tips on…
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October 25, 2017
  • Eco-Net

2017 Annual General Meeting

Greetings friends, All members of the Manitoba Eco-Network are invited to attend our Annual General…
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October 19, 2017
  • Eco-Net

Manitoba Eco Network Honey

Our honey was harvested from Bees on the Eco Centre roof. For a donation of…
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