Canada's Environmental Voice
A\J: What gives you hope in your environmental and social justice work? David Miller: What gives me hope is having had the privilege of seeing environmental initiatives that work, and consider social justice and economic issues at the same time. Those are the lasting solutions. But it also means that […]
A\J: You have a special history having worked with some faith communities, as well as secular, environmental communities. What role do you think faith plays in contemporary, environmental movements? Lauryn Drainie: Personally, I grew up in a faith community, so that’s always been a part of who I am, but […]
BY SEVEN YEARS OLD, Emily Hunter began seeing footage of her father, Bob Hunter’s environmental activism as a co-founder of Greenpeace. By 19, she joined the “family business” and began her career as an environmental activist, the same year her father succumbed to cancer. When she decided to join the […]
Tim Leduc is an assistant professor of Aboriginal and environmental social work at Wilfrid Laurier University Brantford. His newest book A Canadian Climate of Mind: Passages from Fur to Energy and Beyond has just been released.
It isn’t the burgeoning global human population that is the main threat to planetary sustainability, but rather the escalating expectations of a global human population rapidly committing itself in ever-increasing waves to the current Western “mindset.” This mindset, crystallized by modern economics, generates a world in which economic actors operate […]
BEING AN ENVIRONMENTALIST is not the easiest gig. A dedicated activist will constantly fight against oil companies worth more money than you can imagine, listen to apathetic citizens who won’t even bother to recycle and try to talk to politicians who don’t seem to listen. Bill McKibben has been a leader […]
Welcome to the first issue of 2016, our 45th anniversary year. This issue, Faith, was conceived early in 2015 with an eye towards helping environmentally minded Canadians sustain their own hope and faith despite the myriad of challenges that we face as we tackle the impacts of climate change.
42.1 Faith, Hope and Charities explores how faith groups and environmental leaders are helping to contour a horizon of hope amid debilitating data on climate change. The issue’s theme editor Stephen Bede Scharper, professor of environment at University of Toronto and leading expert on the intersection of faith and environmentalism, has […]
I have faith in the future because I believe Martin Luther King Jr.’s observation that ‘the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice.’– Rob Shirkey, Our Horizon
Lester Brown makes a satisfying – if not always perfectly compelling – argument that fossil fuels are already inheriting the world. Each chapter presents a round-up of all the wins, advances and anticipated benefits of a particular renewable energy. Brown glows equally on the subjects of solar, wind, geothermal and […]
