This is a response to “Mourning the Slow Death of Nuclear Power“ in Stu Campana’s Renewable Energy blog.
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Lifecycles (Issue 39.1)
The Lifecycles issue looks at the interconnectedness of, well, everything. This podcast expands on two articles from the magazine: Rising Giant, about how methane gas has “exploded” onto the climate change scene, and Mercy Me, a photographic look at the journey from pig to pork. A\J intern Andrew Wong interviewed […]
9 Instant Home Warm-ups
By Cara Smusiak. Re-published from Green Living Online. The cold weather is here, but you can still take a few easy steps to winterize your home. Your wallet – and the planet – will thank you. Here are a few ideas:
Ontario Forests Will Be Net Carbon Source Until 2040
Ontario’s Crown forests are expected to remain a net source of carbon emissions for the next three decades, according to the latest forestry report from the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Hydropower and the Middle Ground
Muskrat Falls is getting a hydroelectric project. Against the objections of local environmental and Inuit-Metis groups, the Federal Court has given the southern Labrador project a green light. There’s some cognitive dissonance involved in watching environmental allies struggling against a form of renewable energy, but hydropower seems to occupy something […]
Blocking the Arteries of the Tar Sands
There’s been a tremendous amount of media coverage surrounding Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, which spawned an incredible resistance movement led primarily by indigenous nations of British Columbia. Events such as Defend Our Coast attracted thousands of protestors, while the Yinka Dene Alliance made national headlines with their anti-pipeline tour across […]
Battling Canada’s Carbon Addiction
To celebrate the new year, many people have made resolutions – which ultimately may or may not be successful. The nations of the world made their own resolution shortly before the holidays, and what we can expect isn’t entirely clear. What is clear is that climate change is accelerating, and […]
Thinking Big, Building Small: Low-tech Solutions for Food, Water, and Energy
Jock Brandis works for peanuts, or more accurately, for peanut shellers. His hand-cranked invention, the Universal Nut Sheller, enables farmers to shell nuts 60 times faster than they can by hand. In Thinking Big, Building Small, Jock’s sister Marianne – a Stratford, Ontario-based writer – tells the story of the […]
10 Ways to Waste Less Food
Green Living Online has started an A\J blog! This first post was originally published on the Green Living site.
Compost: Completing the Food Cycle
Hundreds of thousands of people in Canada access food bank services every month yet an estimated $27 billion dollars worth of food is wasted in Canada every year. This disturbing social reality is coupled with the negative environmental impact of food waste. When food is wasted, the fresh water that […]
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