Canada's Environmental Voice
Fourty three is the number of Grey Crowned Cranes that died on the banks of the Luangwa River on August 16, 2015. That is the number of lost biodiversity due to a single incident, nearly 10 percent of the South Luangwa National Park’s Grey Crowned Cranes local population.
Me and Meat is a blog series that hopes to inspire people to rethink their diets as I share the stories, struggles and successes of becoming a vegetarian.
Cranes play a vital role in the ecosystem. They balance the food supply eating both plants and animals, they are also food for large predators such as foxes, wolves, coyotes, lynxes, bobcats, raccoons, and Golden eagles. Out of the 15 crane species found in the world, 11 are considered threatened […]
The Belarus government created the Polesie State Radiation Ecological Reserve in Belarus in the aftermath of humanity’s worst nuclear power calamity at Chernobyl. After a massive radioactive cloud descended on the forests, farmlands and villages dotting the landscape, almost 2,200 square kilometres were set aside in 1988 to protect wildlife. […]
In their endorsement of Demystifying Sustainability, Paul and Anne Ehrlich state, “Sustainability may be the most important … and most misused word in our language. This brilliant, deep, accurate, well-referenced book should do wonders to rectify that. It should be required reading for every high-school student, CEO and politician.” I would also […]
A survey of candidates in 16 Greater Toronto Area ridings last week revealed the New Democrats, Liberals and Greens are overwhelmingly in favour of improving the weak Rouge National Urban Park.
Over the years, protection of Canada’s fresh water has largely been deferred to provincial and territorial governments.
Festivals with clear skies are a rare sight to behold, but a festival with clear grounds — now that’s truly a sight to see. When you step onto the Guelph Lake Conservation Area, where Hillside Festival is based, festivalgoers are accosted by unique music, rather than the crunch of garbage […]
I don’t mean to shock you, but First Nations people in Canada were only granted the right to vote in 1960. That’s still within living memory, and a constant reminder of how far this country has gone to silence the voice of this country’s founding peoples.
There is no master plan for how your post-secondary education should look. Go to university, go to college, go to college before university, do both. Get a master’s and a PhD. Take six years to finish your undergrad. In 2015 there are so many ways to map your education. It’s […]
