Canada's Environmental Voice
It’s not every day that a building plan seeks input from an associate professor in community psychology. But then again, this is not an everyday building. For one thing, it has ambitious goals to hit top benchmarks for net-positive commercial construction. The building, with about 115 square feet on three […]
Some day, for reasons big or small, everyone ends up using services at a local hospital. With that in mind, Dr. Doug Dittmer, Medical Director of Rehabilitation at Grand River Hospital in Kitchener, Ontario, began asking, “Why shouldn’t it be the best experience possible?”
“I’m allergic to coalitions.” That’s what a prominent Canadian environmental leader once told me. It was 2012, and the organization I was working with at the time had broached the idea of uniting several groups in an effort to disrupt the entrenched “jobs versus nature” narrative.
The words on the back of the business card say so much: Belong & Thrive. For staff at House of Friendship, a social service charity based in Waterloo Region, Ont., these words are much more than an inspirational motto. They are a reminder that helping people in need by providing food, […]
Maha Kumbh Mela The largest gathering of people on Earth happened on one day in 2013. There will not be another mass congregation on the Ganges River or anywhere else until 2157. Darrol Bryant reflects. What event could draw 30 million people? To the same place, on the same day? […]
Every year Hillside ups the ante to make their green initiatives greener. We at A\J always want to help. THIS Hillside, RIGHT NOW, A\J will kick back $10 to Hillside Green Initiatives for EVERY print subscription (including gifts) purchased online Friday July 22nd to 11:59PM on Sunday July 24, 2016. PLUS+++ Hillside will receive 100% of the proceeds for ALL DIGITAL subscriptions sold […]
It is that time of year again….time for, in our opinion, the best music and cultural festival in southern Ontario: The Hillside Festival of Music and Community! And we couldn’t be more excited. Have you bought your tickets yet?
TFor decades dams have been celebrated by some as an inherently clean form of energy. In British Columbia the Christy Clark government recently dubbed a highly controversial $9-billion mega dam on the Peace River as “the site C Clean Energy Project.”
St Gabriel’s Roman Catholic Church in Toronto is the first sacred building in Canada to be LEED Gold (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certified. People from outside its community often come to marvel at its environmentally sustainable architecture, living wall, sophisticated ventilation system, and indigenous plants. In tours with inquisitive […]
I AM A SETTLER. I’m a white settler, a non-Indigenous occupier of Haudenosaunee, Anishinaabe and Attawandaron lands. Those lands include the Haldimand Tract: a ribbon of territory about 10 kilometres deep on either side of Ontario’s Grand River, which Britain’s Governor-General in Canada granted to the Haudenosaunee people of Six […]
