Canada's Environmental Voice
It may stretch our imaginations a little to merge the worlds of marathons and fracking, but that is exactly what is happening this spring in the badlands of North Dakota. Adventure Science is currently carrying out 100 Miles of Wild: North Dakota Badlands Transect, a trek across the badlands to […]
Germs, germs, germs: I think we can safely say that we are obsessed with them (some more than others). We do everything we can to avoid them with our anti-bacterial hand sanitizers, soaps, sprays and wipes. There’s definitely something to be said about cleanliness and the prevention of disease but […]
Federal opposition MPs and environmental groups are crying foul over what they see as the government’s attempt to curtail public comment on Enbridge’s proposed 639-km Line 9 reversal pipeline route through southern Ontario and into Quebec.
A longitudinal study recently published in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine reinforces growing evidence that the natural environment is a public health benefit and its loss has significant consequences. Donovan et al. (2013) discovered that a loss of trees resulted in increased mortality rates among local residents suffering from […]
The whole A\J gang came out to the Green Living Show this month.
Happy Earth Day! We celebrated Earth Day – and editorial intern Semini Pathberiya’s birthday – with an earth cake at lunch today in the A\J office (and the Captain Planet theme song as a soundtrack to our delicious dessert).
Anyone reading the news recently has likely heard of the ongoing battle for long-term funding solutions for public transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and beyond. While the relatively unknown provincial transit agency Metrolinx has drawn up plenty of lines on maps, there is currently no money […]
The A\J team is taking up Earth Day Canada’s challenge to Act for the Planet by trying out new habits during Earth Month. We’ll be following (roughly) along with the EDC’s list of 30 challenges, and you can follow our progress – and let us know how you’re doing – […]
A\J is a proud friend and sponsor of Sustainable Waterloo Region, a local organization we were excited to honour at this year’s Green Living Show Victories Celebration on Saturday night, for their flagship program, the Regional Carbon Initiative (RCI). Over 400 RCI members and supporters, including A\J, will be in […]
Let’s say you want to install a solar panel on your roof but there’s a tree in the way. Trees are great and all, but for the sake of green energy you’d want to cut it down, right? Actually, maybe not. In fact, if you own a tree (just one […]
