Up Drop (Aurora Robson, 2010) is a 9-foot-tall suspended sculpturemade from plastic debris (PET) intercepted from the waste stream.
Science & Research
Ontario Needs to Step Up its GHG Reduction Game
So much of the thinking around climate change has evolved since 2007 that Ontario’s seven-year-old climate action plan is now “irrelevant” according to Environmental Commissioner Gord Miller.
How Sustainable Is the World Cup?
With the 2014 FIFA World Cup happening right now in Brazil, the world has paused to enjoy its most popular sport. In Toronto it has been especially entertaining to watch neighbourhoods like the Danforth and Little Italy cheering on their respective teams. TVs have been set up in public areas […]
Footprint in Mouth: WTF? Wi-Fi in the forest?
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Oil and Water Don’t Mix
Filmmaker, activist and coastal BC native Richard Boyce has spent the past year looking at Canada’s West Coast through the lens of Enbridge’s highly controversial Northern Gateway pipeline proposal. He takes viewers on a journey along the Inner Passage, a shipping route for oceangoing vessels where a landmark proposal could […]
Meet Tim Nash, the Sustainable Economist
Tim Nash, aka ‘The Sustainable Economist’ is a part-time economics professor at Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada as well one of the country’s leading sustainable investment advisers. Daryn Caister, A\J contributing editor and host of the Green Majority radio program, and Stefan Hoste
Farmers’ Rights Plowed Under by Agricultural Growth Act
The federal government is proposing yet another omnibus bill, this time in the form of Bill C-18, the Agricultural Growth Act. The bill entered its second reading on March 3, 2014, and, if passed, will amend nine separate pieces of federal legislation, though the amendments being proposed for the Plant […]
Think You Know Nature?
With the May long weekend signalling the arrival of summer, I wasted no time leaving behind Toronto for the quiet solitude of Algonquin Provincial Park. Hiking amongst 400-year-old trees, sighting rare birds, stopping on the highway to spot moose and enjoying the call of loons on the lake helps you […]
Controversial Spring Bear Hunt Returns to Ontario
Just over halfway through the reintroduced six-week spring bear hunt, which runs from May 1 to June 15, the province of Ontario has issued close to 2,300 licenses for black bears. Unfortunately, the Ministry of Natural Resources has no idea how many of those licences will be used this spring, […]
Giving Swifts a Lift
Have you ever noticed this twittering sound? I didn’t until a friend pointed it out a few years ago. I was amazed to learn it comes from tiny birds that spend their nights clinging to the walls of chimneys and their days aloft on long, sickle-shaped wings. I’ve heard it […]
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