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Founding Ottawa Office director Bill Janzen honoured with the Order of Canada
Canada
Jun 2024
News
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![Man in a field with a basket of gourds](/sites/default/files/2024-06/Websitethumbnail.jpg)
A field trip: growing safer vegetables in Bangladesh
Listen now- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Podcast/audio
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Farmers grow safe vegetables to protect health, environment
- Food
Bangladesh
Jun 2024
Story
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From soil to solidarity
- Food,
- Climate Change
Puerto Rico
Jun 2024
Story
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![IVEP participant is crouched and feeding a baby calf with a bottle.](/sites/default/files/2024-06/image000000%281%29.jpg)
Seeing our lives through the eyes of an IVEPer
United States + 1 more
Jun 2024
Story
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Freely you have received; freely give
United States + 2 more
Jun 2024
Story
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![A woman standing in front of lush green trees](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-06/RS136841_IMG_8433_lpr.JPG.webp?itok=HLT94qVk)
From soil to solidarity
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Food, Climate Change
Location
Puerto Rico
Date
Media Type
Story
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Above the floodwaters
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Climate Change
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Publication
book
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Floating gardens in Bangladesh
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Climate Change
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Video story
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![A green, lush, jungle](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-03/RS130898_IMG_0261_lpr.jpg.webp?itok=Vhs3msG4)
Healing land and communities
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Climate Change
Location
Colombia
Date
Media Type
Story
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More frequent and unpredictable
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Climate Change
Location
Bangladesh
Date
Media Type
Story
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![Scenes from Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The Rideau Canal.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_2382.jpg.webp?itok=Xr7a9pn2)
Let’s talk about climate change
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Cynthia in engineering coat smiling](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2024-01/Websitethumbnailcynthia.jpg.webp?itok=n6NT6eTp)
Community built stoves / Tariro Cynthia Mutsindikwa
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Climate Change
Location
Zimbabwe
Date
Media Type
Podcast/audio
headphones
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![Front to back, Laura Pauls-Thomas, Curtis Book, Jennifer Lancaster, Megan Hoffman and Matt Hoffman are participants in a 52-mile bike ride in Pennsylvania's Lancaster County on July 30, 2022.
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Bicycling is climate action for peace
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Climate Change, Peace
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Perspectives and Viewpoints
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![Intricate root systems of trees planted along the Pechelín Creek protect the creek bed from erosion.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/IMG_9493.jpg.webp?itok=M6SaaXvs)
What to watch at COP28
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Climate Change
Location
Middle East
Date
Media Type
Story
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![People who survived Hurricanes Eta and Iota and recived supplies to rebuild their houses from CASM, Comisión de Acción Social Menonita, an MCC partner.](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/resource-space/Bajos%20de%20Choloma%20%282%29.jpg.webp?itok=wS3_4FtD)
Loss and damages is a climate justice response
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 5 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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Why Christians make good climate actors
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Climate Change
Location
United States + 1 more
Date
Media Type
Story
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![A bridge that crosses a dam](/sites/default/files/styles/story_teaser_mobile/public/2023-06/090912ms534.jpg.webp?itok=_sWAHwaA)
"That grief that never goes away"
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Climate Change
Location
Canada + 1 more
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Media Type
Story
menu_book
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