{"id":2397,"date":"2014-07-16T16:33:59","date_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:33:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/?p=2397"},"modified":"2014-07-16T16:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-16T21:34:35","slug":"whats-the-greenest-province-in-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/whats-the-greenest-province-in-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s the greenest province in Canada?<img src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/canada_flag_icon_small.gif\">"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2355\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2355\" class=\"wp-image-2355 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006-300x195.png\" alt=\" British Columbia, Quebec, Prince-Edward-Island and Nova-Scotia were the greenest according to a new index on pro-environmental behaviours outdoor. (Credit: Canuel et al.)\" width=\"300\" height=\"195\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006-300x195.png 300w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006-1024x668.png 1024w, http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006.png 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2355\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">British Columbia, Quebec, Prince-Edward-Island and Nova-Scotia were the greenest according to a new index on pro-environmental behaviours outdoor. Click to enlarge. (Credit: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info:doi\/10.1371\/journal.pone.0101569&quot;\">Canuel et al.<\/a>)<\/p><\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Researchers measuring pro-environmental behaviour in Canada at the household level found that British Columbia and Qu\u00e9bec lead the pack. The study was conducted using the answers to 39 questions on the 2007 Environment Survey of Statistics Canada. <\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">They found out that households in British Columbia, Quebec, Prince-Edward-Island and Nova-Scotia were the greenest opposed to Alberta, Saskatchewan, Manitoba and Newfoundland-and-Labrador which ranked poorly.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #222222;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\">A <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #1155cc; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inspq.qc.ca\/pdf\/publications\/1795_Comportements_Proenvironnements.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">full report<\/a><\/span><span style=\"color: #000000;\"> (available in French only)\u00a0examining\u00a0the 2007-2011 trends was published in April 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.plosone.org\/article\/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0101569\" target=\"_blank\">Original research paper<\/a><\/span>\u00a0published in the journal\u00a0<em>PLoS ONE<span style=\"color: #000000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/em>on\u00a0<strong>July 11, 2014<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Names and affiliations of selected\u00a0authors<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<h4><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Magalie Canuel, National Public Health Institute of Quebec, Quebec<\/span><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers measuring pro-environmental behaviour in Canada at the household level found that British Columbia and Qu\u00e9bec lead the pack. The study was conducted using the answers to 39 questions on the 2007 Environment Survey of Statistics Canada. They found out that households in British Columbia, Quebec, Prince-Edward-Island and Nova-Scotia were the greenest opposed to Alberta, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[869,31,1445,215,849],"class_list":["post-2397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paper-of-interest","tag-canada-en","tag-climate-change","tag-conservation","tag-environment","tag-quebec-en"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/journal.pone_.0101569.g006.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4DqbN-CF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2397"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2397\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/sciencemediacentre.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}