Our stories

Learn how our Nature Play and Learning Lab teaches participants to embrace the wild in the city and reconnect kids with nature. 

The Children’s Garden started with two mounds of dirt. Here’s how it continues to shape our work more than 15 years later. 

Public places offer the best viewpoints in most Canadian cities. Here are our favourite public spaces to take pictures of the Canadian skylines. 

Maxime-Thibault-Vézina and Raphaël Guyard are interviewed in a podcast episode of Face au Futur / The Future Fix: Solutions for Communities Across Canada. 

To explore the link between public space and social connection, we spoke to someone at the forefront of the research.

Birds are chirping, turtles are splashing, frogs are croaking; even the hawks are calling sharply from above. It all makes you want to head outdoors and see those wildlife shows with your own eyes.  

Experts in public health, psychology, education and recreation all agree: we should definitely spend more time outside.

Think it’s hard to stay active in the winter? Here are eight easy ways to break a sweat in the snow.

A whopping 3,883 pounds of single-use trash never saw a landfill thanks to the Reusable Dishware Program.