Canada's Environmental Voice
Toronto has a seemingly neverending cycle of film festivals, but only Planet in Focus trains its crosshairs exclusively on environmental concerns. The 14th annual version (from November 21 to 24) featured a slate of strong, complex and curious documentaries, and another handful of very well deserved PiF award winners.
What do we want? Evidence-based decision making!When do we want it? After peer review!
There are SOME things you will find on almost every university campus in Canada. There are the chants of orientation week, quiet corners in libraries, goofy mascots and long lines for coffee in the mornings.
THE ATHABASCA RIVER begins in the Rockies and flows northeast, joining the Peace, Slave and Mackenzie to form Canada’s biggest river system. Just outside Jasper National Park, the river slides past the town of Hinton. In 1955, a pulp mill was built there to convert the local forest into Reader’s Digest.
One of North America’s largest conservation areas sits on the suburban fringe of Canada’s largest metropolis, home to more than five million people. The Oak Ridges Moraine spans 190,000 hectares of forests, wetlands, lakes and prairies north of the Greater Toronto Area (GTA), but it has been conceptualized as a […]
Eating healthy doesn’t necessarily mean completely overhauling your diet. Small changes can add up. Keep these eight better choices in mind when you plan meals.
Joshua See’s photos accompanied Burton Lim’s article in the Night issue about bat research in Guyana, They Only Come Out at Night. Here are more of See’s shots, featuring some other rainforest creatures.
Out for a late winter walk in 2006, I was suprised to see a bat flying around in broad daylight in a wooded area of Bedford, Nova Scotia. Seven years later, Nova Scotia’s bat population is hanging by a thread and I have to wonder whether White Nose Syndrome (WNS), […]
A\J is partnering with the Otesha Project to cover two of their 2013 tours: Nation to Nation and Pedal to Plate. This post is from Nation to Nation tour member Arestia Dehmassi – watch the video above for an overview of the tour. Check out A\J’s photo essay from the Pedal to […]
The romantic allure of the scented aromatherapy candle has seduced many of us. But unless you’re lighting the right candle, you may actually be polluting the air in your home.
