Canada's Environmental Voice
On Wednesday, February 19th, 2020, Alternatives Media and Western University’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability will be hosting a FREE Virtual Reality exposition on key areas under the banner of environment and sustainability at the Project 220 event space in Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall. The event will be […]
Niel LaChapelle and Mo Markham from Extinction Rebellion tell us about the climate strike planned in Waterloo for Friday
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are upon us. Follow the lifecycle of consumer electronics to learn about their environmental impacts. It is easy to get sucked into the marketing frenzy and buy things we don’t actually need. But, it’s easy to implement changes to lower our impact. Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AlternativesJ/
Earlier this month, 15 youth from across Canada gathered in Inuvik, Northwest Territories as part of the FutureXChange Program, designed to connect and equip them to collaborate on new community projects to help adapt to a rapidly changing climate.
‘I don’t want to keep your environmental awards; I want you to keep your promises.’ This phrase basically sums up how Greta Thunberg feels about the praise from the climate work she has been doing. From declining awards such as the Nordic Council’s Environment Award 2019, to telling world leaders […]
This year Earth Overshoot Day was the earliest ever, falling on July 29 as the day humanity collectively used nature’s resource budget for the entire year. Scientists, environmentalists, activists, and the world’s youth have made loud and clear demands for radical and progressive policies to curb humanity’s environmental footprint.
Almost all environmental concerns lead back to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. I mean, of course it all leads back to the climate crisis. Most people can agree that it is primarily caused by human activities such as resource extraction and use and agriculture.
In the race to remove the trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, the treatments we choose for this problem ought to at least be slightly better than the problem itself. We have proposed solutions on the table, but the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) landscape is complex, risky, […]
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