The Modern Environmentalist is an editorial series that shares the insights and opinions of A\J’s founder, Dr. Robert Paehlke.
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Matt Lie-Paehlke
Matthew Lie-Paehlke is a father, PhD Candidate in Urban Planning at the University of Toronto, and the founder of Climate Pledge Collective.
Beyond Crisis
THE OVERRIDING QUESTION in Kai Reimer-Watts’ Beyond Crisis is why is our response to climate change “absurdly slow”? Humanity is already experiencing horrific forest fires and flooding – think Fort McMurray and Hurricane Sandy – yet many of us still engage in the flying, driving and beef-eating which bring wide-spread […]
Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development
Edging Forward is a hearty, well-informed plea to Canadians across the country to get off our collective butts and start affecting the change we know is needed. Ann Dale, a senior professor in the School of the Environment and Sustainability at Royal Roads University, provides a re-examination of what sustainability […]
Motivating Our Metamorphosis: A Film Review of Metamorphosis (2018)
In Metamorphosis, filmmakers Nova Ami and Velcrow Ripper skillfully explore the materialization of our planet’s metamorphosis amidst a worsening climate crisis. By sharing an intricate collage of stories, this film avoids perpetuating the daunting notions of guilt and defeat to focus on swelling the hearts of audience members with a […]
Anthropocene: The Human Epoch
To watch Anthropocene is to be saddened and overwhelmed. Overwhelmed by our remaking of the Earth’s surface through extractive industries; by the destruction of living creatures on land and at sea; and by the injury inflicted on humans, especially the poor, as they participate in these processes. Earlier societies harnessed and harmed […]
Lauryn Drainie
Lauryn Drainie has worked in climate change campaigning and communications for ten years for organizations like the Climate Action Network and Change.org. Today, as Manager of Marketing and Engagement at CoPower, Lauryn is working to build a movement of Canadians investing for profit and planet.
Why Sharks Matter
Sharks are the perfect predator – formed by 450 million years of evolution having lived longer than the dinosaurs and surviving five major extinctions. They formed life as we know it and keep the oceans, our planet’s life force, healthy. We exist, in part, because sharks did – and still […]
Simon Dalby
Simon Dalby is the CIGI Chair in the Political Economy of Climate Change at Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo.
‘Accidental Gravity: Residents, Travelers, and the Landscape of Memory’
There’s an ethereal quality to much nature writing that can feel oppressively twee, miscalibrated to life in the Anthropocene. Annie Dillard may have had a year to wander the Blue Ridge Mountains playing King of the Meadow with grasshoppers, but that was 1974. Haven’t you heard? A Delaware-sized iceberg is […]
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