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System Change not Climate Change
In developing A\J’s upcoming “Invest in Change” issue, I have been thinking a lot about our economic and social systems; how they affect us and how they could be changed as we make the transition towards a sustainable, low-carbon future. To dig deeper into these ideas, I attended “Economics of […]
Canada’s National Plastic Strategy
The Surfrider Foundation is a North American organization devoted to protecting ocean shorelines. The organization was formed in 1984 and has made reducing plastic waste a major priority. In November 2016, Hanjin Shipping Co.
Little Bugs with a Big Impact
Many people think that insects are some of the most useless and annoying creatures that exist. But that’s not the case in aquatic ecosystems, where they serve important roles in biomonitoring.
Moccasin Identifier Project
On this National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21st, 2019, the Greenbelt Foundation and Alternatives Journal are pleased to announce the first look of the Moccasin Identifie
Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells’ 2017 essay in New York Magazine entitled “The Uninhabitable Earth” depicted stark future scenarios for a climate change-afflicted world. It clearly struck a chord: it was the most read article in the magazine’s history. Now Wallace-Wells has released a book of the same title, and it has also […]
Songs are the Oxygen
What do you use to hug people with? Arms. Cool.
The Lost Sea
Half a century ago, a sea disappeared in Central Asia. The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake on planet Earth. It was fed by two rivers – Syr Darya and Amu Darya, until Soviet leaders redirected these rivers to irrigate cotton fields in the 1960.
Mindfully Disposing of the Unrecyclable
Waterloo, Ontario, June 6th 2019
At the Convergence of Climate Change and Art
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