A\J: What gives you hope in your environmental and social justice work?
Author: editorial
Higher Powered: Lauryn Drainie
A\J: You have a special history having worked with some faith communities, as well as secular, environmental communities. What role do you think faith plays in contemporary, environmental movements? Lauryn Drainie: Personally, I grew up in a faith community, so that’s always been a part of who I am, but […]
Higher Powered : Emily Hunter
BY SEVEN YEARS OLD, Emily Hunter began seeing footage of her father, Bob Hunter’s environmental activism as a co-founder of Greenpeace. By 19, she joined the “family business” and began her career as an environmental activist, the same year her father succumbed to cancer. When she decided to join the […]
Earthbound
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 […]
The Accidental Optimist
BEING AN ENVIRONMENTALIST is not the easiest gig. A dedicated activist will constantly fight against oil companies worth more money than you can imagine, listen to apathetic citizens who won’t even bother to recycle and try to talk to politicians who don’t seem to listen. Bill McKibben has been a leader […]
AJ at 45
We were founded by a young professor Bob Paehlke in 1971 at Trent University. 2 Huge argument arises in 1989 among deep and social ecologists in Letters to Editor. 3 In November 2015, we stopped updating “Crimes Against Ecology.” #StopHarper 4 Back in 1999 we started publishing Canada’s Environmental Education Guide. 5 Our latest […]
Believe This
Welcome to the first issue of 2016, our 45th anniversary year. This issue, Faith, was conceived early in 2015 with an eye towards helping environmentally minded Canadians sustain their own hope and faith despite the myriad of challenges that we face as we tackle the impacts of climate change.
The Election Climate
Banking heavily on a belief that you and I are preoccupied with fighting climate change, the front-runners in the federal election have anchored their environmental platforms to the way in which they’ll tackle greenhouse gases: cap-and-trade, carbon taxes, vague promises of low-carbon economies. While New Democrats and Liberals attempt to […]
Editorial: Get to Work
Business will be the force that drives society’s transformation to a low-carbon economy. With limited involvement from the business sector so far, our progress has been inadequate. Yet, of the world’s largest 100 economic entities, 40 are corporations, and they generated over $7.9-trillion (US) in 2012, giving them – rightly or […]
Let’s Get Political
From A\J’s perspective, Canada’s environment has not been enough a part of the current federal election. To remedy, we’d like to spend the 30 days leading up to voting day publishing and promoting content that brings attention to environmental-political issues.
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