A recent Ipsos Reid poll reveals that 91% of Canadians feel that they have a responsibility to improve the environment, while 71% feel that the government should take an active role.

Over 100 musicians took the stage at the Live Earth global concerts on Saturday. This was an empowering event intended to raise climate change awareness amongst ordinary citizens. Many believe that individual action will lead to corporate and political efforts to follow.

The UK’s National Trust announced that they are aiming to organize the largest green movement with millions of members in support of conservation efforts and in combating climate change.

Climate Change protesters camped outside London’s Heathrow airport are now slowly dispersing away. But protest is set to take place at other locations across the country.

“Former U.S. vice-president Al Gore and the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize Friday for their efforts to spread awareness of man-made climate change and lay the foundations for counteracting it.”

China announced that it is expecting to raise US$1.5 billion through its Clean Development Mechanism Fund by the year 2012, which will be channeled into a government fund for climate change and public awareness programs.

“The environmental groups – ForestEthics, Greenpeace, Environmental Defence and the Western Canada Wilderness Committee – are opposed to any increase in activity in extracting oil from the sandy forests of northern Alberta. They say the federal government should impose caps on emissions from oil-sands development or shut down the northern Alberta industry.”

EcoMedia Direct is a Toronto-based firm that implements public space recycling programs throughout cities around the world as a way to create environmental awareness and protection. At the beginning of this year, EcoMedia expanded its Street Art sponsorship program with the addition of 21 Canadian artists decorated SilverBox recycling bins in downtown Toronto.

Ottawa Mayor Larry O’Brien will announce Ottawa’s participation in the Earth Hour challenge, an international event on March 29 between 8 to 9 p.m. local times. During this one hour, lights will be turned off, as a way to raise awareness for climate change.

Along with Toronto and Ottawa, Montreal will participate in Earth Hour on March 29th, when lights will be turned off for an hour between 8 and 9 p.m. local times to draw attention to climate change. A growing list of international cities including Toronto, Sydney, Manila, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv have already signed on.