Canada's Environmental Voice
Quantum Leap Needed Written by Stephan Vachon This AJ issue on local action is highly relevant in these dire times. As the pandemic is raging we collectively appreciate the importance of local communities including the value to have domestic sourced products, particularly food, and the call on each other’s civic […]
The Musings of a Cautious Optimist Affecting Change on a Journey to Save the World Written by Andrew Bowerbank Over the course of my career, I have come to understand a hard truth – any professional or philanthropic aspirations focused on improving our social condition are far more difficult to […]
Do you want to have a published article in our next magazine issue? Well, we have an opportunity for you! As Alternatives Journal approaches its 50th anniversary, we would love to hear feedback from you on our company and its work thus far! We are looking for young passionate writers […]
Full disclosure: I love my green job at the Project Learning Tree Canada – an initiative of SFI. Every day, I have the privilege of working alongside a creative, diverse, passionate and collaborative team of professionals—each deeply committed to a common vision of providing every young person with the resources, […]
“The right to land and to self-government. The right to self-determination. Those causes are right in any society.” Being Métis, that statement by Jim Sinclair to the 1987 First Ministers’ Conference often plays in my mind. Self-determination—the ability to freely pursue one’s own destiny—is a basic human right. It is enshrined […]
UPDATE: EXTENDED DEADLINE: August 11, 2017 Interested in joining our board of directors? The board of directors of Alternatives Inc., the charity that operates Alternatives Journal (A\J), has empowered me to make this call for candidates interested in joining our board of directors. A\J is Canada’s oldest and most respected environmental […]
“I’m allergic to coalitions.” That’s what a prominent Canadian environmental leader once told me. It was 2012, and the organization I was working with at the time had broached the idea of uniting several groups in an effort to disrupt the entrenched “jobs versus nature” narrative.
Hi Canada, welcome to (y)our issue – but don’t get too comfortable. This is not your Canadian Living, Style at Home or HGTV Canada. Through these next pages, we’d like to introduce you to Canada’s current housing crisis and what can be done about it.
It isn’t the burgeoning global human population that is the main threat to planetary sustainability, but rather the escalating expectations of a global human population rapidly committing itself in ever-increasing waves to the current Western “mindset.” This mindset, crystallized by modern economics, generates a world in which economic actors operate […]
Our grade 10 English teacher claimed that all literature is about conflict – within the person, among people, or between humans and nature. She then assigned us to put each of our readings into one or more of the three conflict boxes. We ought to have rebelled. We ought to […]
