ELECTRIC VEHICLES (EVs) have been around since the early nineteenth century, and, at one point in the early 1900s, were one of the most popular forms of motor transportation.
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Pet Architecture: Finding North America’s Renewable Culture
The newest wind turbines can fly. Lifted off the ground like a kite, they are designed to solve the problem of accessing greater wind speeds at higher altitudes.
Ocean Warming and Acidification will Crash Crabs’ Metabolism
Based on future climate scenarios, researchers believe coastal ecosystems will see increased extremes in low tide temperature fluctuations and drops in pH levels associated with ocean acidification. This particular study looked at what impacts, if any, warmer water and higher acidity levels will have on intertidal zone crustaceans like the […]
Can we Green Hallowe’en without Chuckin’ the Punkin’?
“There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” Charlie Brown
Playtime Hacked
It’s after school on the south shore of Nova Scotia, and a handful of kids have gathered in the two-room public library in Lunenburg. Some flip through books, some tap on computers, but none seems to notice the new black box near the checkout desk. Roughly the size of a […]
Plastic Caught in a Riptide
Up Drop (Aurora Robson, 2010) is a 9-foot-tall suspended sculpturemade from plastic debris (PET) intercepted from the waste stream.
Ontario Adds Climate Change to Environment Minister Portfolio
In announcing her new cabinet last week, Premier Kathleen Wynne has charged former Transportation Minister Glen Murray with taking over Ontario’s newly revamped environment ministry. Murray, the sitting MPP for Toronto Centre and former mayor of Winnipeg, assumed command of the environment ministry from veteran MPP Jim Bradley who is […]
Fully Destructible
In his book, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Bernard Suits defines the act of playing games as “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” It’s easy to dismiss playing games as an impediment to the real-world experiences required to develop an environmental ethos.
Editorial: Role Playing
Warning labels on packs of cigarettes didn’t keep me from smoking as a teenager. When I quit in my 20s, their newly gruesome imagery really didn’t have much to do with it. But the warnings most definitely coloured my leftover cravings with the dark possibilties of charred lungs, festering gums […]
After the Thrashing: Making Skateboarding Sustainable
I was a kid in the seventies when a serious drought in Southern California left swimming pools emptied, which created the ideal environment for skateboarding to evolve from its quaint “sidewalk surfing” days, as Jan and Dean sang, to a legitimate and highly profitable industry.
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