Canada's Environmental Voice
Alex Epstein wants to shake up the way that we think about fossil fuels and challenges which behaviours we consider moral and immoral. In his book The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels, he proposes reframing the conflict of environmentalists versus the hydrocarbon industry. It’s not a question of fossil fuel […]
THIRTY YEARS after Andy Warhol made a series of silkscreen prints to raise awareness of endangered species, evidence of an ongoing sixth mass-extinction event grows. Each year, Canada’s list of species at risk gets longer. A blogger at Scientific American offers an extinction countdown. Scientists provide alarming accounts and warn […]
Over 21 years of climate change action culminated in December 12th’s historic multilateral agreement. Many will say we have come to a pivotal moment, or to the end of a long road. Some will say it falls short, lacks ambitions and is shameful. Many will say we have failed our frontline […]
The University of Toronto will become the largest Canadian university to divest from fossil fuels if the institution moves forward with recommendations proposed by their advisory committee. In response to a petition and a brief presented by Toronto350, University of Toronto President Meric Gertler called for an ad hoc advisory […]
OUTSIDE of the 3,000-square-foot, state-of-the-art community solar greenhouse at Invermere’s David Thompson Secondary School, Rob Avis and his group of design interns are busy bringing a tantalizing vision of sustainability to life.
Julie Johnston is a climate change activist, a teacher and a sustainability education consultant. She works with educators around the world through GreenHeart Education. Julie lives on Pender Island, BC, with her also-not-invited-to-dinner-parties climate change activist hubby and her favourite mammal, Lita.
VOLKSWAGEN’S MANAGERS, its market value and its global reputation have all taken a big hit since it was revealed that 11 million of the company’s “clean diesel” cars were actually polluting up to 40 times more nitrous oxides than the legal limit.
“WHAT IS IT about activists that they can’t even be optimistic for one day after a whole decade?” The disgust and disappointment on my 16 year olds’ face is somewhat heartbreaking as he pours cereal the morning after the Canadian election and surfs the comments on my Facebook page. I can […]
PRINT EDITION SOLD OUT; PLEASE CONSIDER BUYING A DIGITAL EDITION INSTEAD. A\J’s third out of the box issue pushes us out of our comfort zone and challenges us to think about the environment from different aspects. In this issue you’ll understand species extinction through prints, paintings, sculptures, photographs, video, textiles, multimedia […]
A consensus among nations was reached in Paris last Saturday. The agreement has received mixed reviews among the general public with some praising COP21 as the start of a new era of climate action and others criticizing the agreement as weak and incomplete.
