Canada's Environmental Voice
If you’ve ever dreamt of tearing down your old, energy-inefficient home and building a new, eco-friendly one, you may want to think again. After all, knocking down an existing building wastes materials and energy, and requires even more materials and energy to rebuild.
The arrival of Ella Soper and Nicholas Bradley’s anthology, Greening the Maple: Canadian Ecocriticism in Context, marks the solidification of ecocriticism in this country. Ecocriticism is defined by the editors “in very general terms as the investigation of the many ways in which culture and the environment . . . […]
Submarines: the mother of all invention. Or at least, a very specific kind of invention. In October, American defence contractor Lockheed Martin Corp. announced that it had made a nuclear fusion breakthrough.
This is part three of our Skills for the New Economy series.
Illustration by nik harron. Since the 2011 Fukushima catastrophe, the global decline in nuclear power has steepened. More than 20 countries are phasing out nuclear plants, have stopped the construction of new reactors, or passed laws prohibiting nuclear power. The number of reactors and nuclear electricity output is falling worldwide.
IN THE TRADITION OF A Civil Action, The Emperor of All Maladies and The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks, Dan Fagin melds hard-hitting investigative reporting with a fascinating scientific detective story and unforgettable characters. At its core, Toms River is a meticulous history of the poisoning of a quaint New […]
Back in January of this year, The New York Times published an article detailing how the campaign to stop the Keystone XL pipeline had “changed American environmental politics.” For over three years now, thousands of people have marched, rallied, commented, blockaded, been arrested and done almost everything in between to stop […]
Investment managers are waking up to the fact that holding vast reserves in fossil fuel companies, especially for vital purposes such as pension funds, is an unacceptable risk for investors.
At this stage of history, either one of two things is possible. Either the general population will take control of its own destiny and will concern itself with community interests guided by values of solidarity and sympathy and concern for others, or, alternatively, there will be no destiny for anyone […]
