Canada's Environmental Voice
As I took a walk on a trail, in the process of creating a video for Alternatives Journal, I realized that I missed the sound of birds. I understand the absurdity of that sentence, it is not as if all birds have suddenly disappeared; the noisy robins outside of my […]
The cutting edge in solar cars is a vehicle that looks like something your dad might drive every day on his way to the paperwork bureaucracy factory. In the early days solar cars stretched the definition of the term. They were more like flying saucers than earth-bound vehicles. Drivers lay […]
In 2008, the esteemed Al Gore told Obama he should demand that the US move to 100 per cent renewables within ten years. We’re five years on now, but let’s pretend that Obama is just getting around to this memo on his list of things to do. “Oh darn,” he says to […]
SHOULD POLICY MAKERS USE A CHECKLIST when designing public policies? The authors of MINDSPACE think they should.
With apologies to Max, the central character in Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic Where The Wild Things Are, and his arduous journey “in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room”, Alice the Moose puts his to shame. Alice left her home park in […]
Letters from the Editors Ishani Dasgupta, Alex Goddard, & Siobhan Mullally Ishani Dasgupta’s Letter I am a self-proclaimed journalist, environmental activist, and friend to mother nature. Although I am most proud of being a human being and believe me when I say, I understand the irony of that statement compared […]
The Nexus of Technology and the Environment Book review of Technology and the Environment in HistorySara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring. John Hopkins University Press, 2020. 264 pages. Written by Jane Pangilinan Technology and the Environment in History dives intellect first into the nexus of envirotech to spark what […]
The Beating and Bleeding Heart of Boreal Trees Film review of BorealisDir. Kevin McMahon. 2020. 1h 30m. Written by Ishani Dasgupta The main thought I had when watching the movie Borealis, directed by the acclaimed director Kevin McMahon, was “if the trees in the Boreal forest of Canada could use […]
Researching Canada’s Ecological Footprint and Biocapacity Written by Katie Kish and Eric Miller An initiative at York University is measuring how humanity’s consumption of renewable resources has changed over the last 50 years – since the first Earth Day in 1970. Research out of York’s Ecological Footprint Initiative (EFI) in […]
Are You Paying Attention? We, as social media users, are one of the most profitable commodities within publicly traded enterprises. Written by Katie Kish As you scroll through your Facebook feed, you see an advertisement for a toaster oven. How strange! You were just saying yesterday that you wanted to […]
