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Dare to be Deep in the Bay of Fundy
Want to win cool prizes? Support the Dare to be Deep campaign and you could win outdoor gear like a stand-up paddleboard, or a $200 MEC gift card. This the fourth post in our Dare to be Deep series, a...
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Funding Adventure: February Recipients
Funding Adventure: February Recipients Numbers. Occasionally, they happen to invade one’s sightlines, making you either: A. confused B. snoozed or C. stoked. And when our peeps from the Sustainability...
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Accountability: Gauging What We Do
Contributed by: Esther Speck, MEC Director of Sustainability MEC has just released our 2011 Accountability Report: Impact. The report is our opportunity to tell members about the performance of the...
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Commuter Challenge Week (June 3-9)
Commuter Challenge Week is a friendly competition between Canadian cities and workplaces. It encourages people to leave their cars at home and take alternate transportation (ride, walk, take transit,...
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Bamboo Bike Studio – Sustainable Bike Kits
Travel can lead to amazing discoveries, often when you least expect it. A few weeks ago I was vacationing in Camden, Maine. Camden is known for its port and its picture-perfect marina, where sloops and...
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Bear 71
Filmmaker Leanne Allison, together with a fantastic production team and the support of the National Film Board of Canada, brought her vision of telling one bear’s story to the big screen. Bear 71 is a...
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Dare to be Deep in the Magdalen Islands
In our Dare to be Deep series, CPAWS and Mountain Equipment Co-op are introducing 12 exceptional marine sites that we hope to see protected. Today we take you to the heart of the Gulf of Saint...
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One Man’s Trash: Another Man’s Treasure
Ever since I started working at MEC, I’ve been interested in green buildings. We’ve been “greening” our buildings (making design and materials decisions based on environmental considerations) for over...
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Big Wild, Big Water
At 243,000 kilometres, Canada’s coastline is the longest in the world. Add to that the total length of Canada’s fresh water shorelines, fjords, lakes, rivers and streams and we’re talking big water!...
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Dare to Be Deep in the Laurentian Channel
This is the 10th post in our Dare to Be Deep series, which aims to raise awareness about some of the places MEC and CPAWS would like to see become federally-protected marine areas by the end of 2012....
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The Finger of God
If you spend time in the backcountry, you have likely seen the recent New York Times feature Snow Fall, with its detailed analysis of the February 2012 Tunnel Creek avalanche. That story, which went...
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Tales from the Trails
In 2012, Expresso was the trail adopted by MEC through the NSMBA’S TAP program. Over the course of the 2012 season for MEC there were: 6 trail days, 47 volunteers, 380 volunteer hours, 30+ feet of...
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Keeping Canada’s Water Safe for Play
If there’s one thing that has the power to draw Canadians into the wild, it’s our water. From coast to coast and every lake, stream and river in between, Canada is home to some of the most remarkable...
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The sun sets on The Big Wild but rises to a new challenge
As summer gives way to adventure and more time spent outdoors, we reflect back on five years of The Big Wild and its impact on Canada’s conservation landscape. The Big Wild began as a partnership...
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Community Contributions by the Numbers
We invest 1% of our annual revenue in grassroots conservation and outdoor recreation, meaning we try to do as much as we can to make sure wild spaces continue to exist and people continue to be...
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Going Through the Garbage in Calgary
Twice a year, teams at MEC stores don coveralls and jump in the dumpsters to do a waste audit. Seth from MEC Calgary gives us a breakdown of what kind of stuff they found out in their latest audit, and...
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Nature Canada: Protecting the Pacific Northwest with Wild Bucks
MEC Wild Bucks (formerly Big Wild Bucks) is back! We have $10,000 to give away to three worthy Canadian organizations – and we need your help choosing the winners. Vote for the project you’d like to...
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Fair Labor Association Accredits MEC’s Social Compliance Program
An embroidery room at a hardgoods factory we’ve been working with for almost 20 years. Taken by Nicholas Lagopoulos, our Production Coordinator, on a recent factory visit to Vietnam. Our goal is to...
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By the Numbers: How We Showed Up in 2013
Association Recreative Milton-Parc We talk a lot about conserving places and enabling people when it comes to our community contributions. Focusing on these two elements helps us to keep space for...
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A Conversation About Conservation: Éric Hébert-Daly
Éric with his nieces Sofie and Katalina, who he is trying to introduce to nature. We read a Salon article not long ago that reported “people don’t want to be associated with environmentalists” due to...
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