This Earth Day, it’s time to construct climate action

The transition to being a low-carbon industry is not just a matter of learning new technical skills, but of deepening conceptual understandings of the construction process and acquiring flexible, problem-solving capacity.

Governments see the construction industry as key to meeting climate goals. In the recent budget, Justin Trudeau—pictured here visiting an affordable housing construction site in Ottawa last year—proved this through investments in the industry. The Hill Times Photograph by Sam Garcia

Opinion

BY SEAN STRICKLAND

April 22, 2022

Today is Earth Day. Unfortunately, in recent years, it passes with little notice or fanfare. And that’s too bad because all of us have some serious thinking to do about preserving our plant. Earth Day was started in 1970 by U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson to mark the birth of the environmental moveme...

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