Award-winning journalist Shelagh Rogers returns to Torngat Mountains National Park in northern Labrador, known in Inuktitut as the “place of spirits” to lead a literary expedition.
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Lost Rivers
As the creator of Lost Rivers describes it, we’ve practiced a bad habit in our built environment. “We built our cities on the shores of rivers,” narrates the Montreal-based writer, researcher and director. “Over time, we pushed rivers away – out of sight and out of reach.”
Travesty and Redemption
The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower
David Brower’s legacy is unparalleled. The visionary activist practically created the environmental movement, and he might be its most controversial and influential figure. Brower transformed the Sierra Club from a group concerned primarily with California into the most powerful environmental organization in the US. Later he founded Friends of the […]
Active Hope: How to Face the Mess We’re in without Going Crazy
Climate change, overpopulation, rampant consumerism and other huge problems make it pretty hard to feel hopeful about the fate of the world. We can all rhyme off many ways in which our planet is being assaulted. Yet, according to Joanna Macy and Chris Johnstone, none of these phenomena are what […]
Energy and Empire: The Politics of Nuclear and Solar Power in the United States
Energy production is as much a political issue as a technical one, as evidenced by current controversies over sustainable loan guarantees in the United States, proposed pipelines from Alberta’s oil sands and nuclear power in the wake of the Fukushima Daiichi disaster. After all, energy is pursued as a strategic […]
Kicking Plastic to the Curb
It’s hard to imagine life without plastic. It has insidiously found its way into the eyeglasses we peer through, the keyboard at our fingertips and the bottles of water we drink. It can extend our lives as medical devices and makes possible many modern conveniences. But when you add it […]
The Plastic to Oil Machine
IN FALL 2011, a recycling depot in Whitehorse partnered with Cold Climate Innovation to test a revolutionary plastic-to-oil processor. P&M Recycling, one of two main facilities that serve the Yukon capital’s 23,000-plus residents, had been losing money for years by shipping plastic waste 2,370 km to Vancouver for processing. But […]
Making Meaning Out of Mountains
It’s been said that every migrant to a mountain town idealizes that town in exactly the form it existed in on the day they arrived. In The Weekender Effect, Canmore, Alberta-based author and water use expert Robert Sandford suffers from a severe case of this particular nostalgia.
Upsetting the Balance: Endocrine Disrupters and Your Health
Originally published by the Healing Path Centre for Natural Medicine.
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