Canada's Environmental Voice
If you electrify everything and produce electricity from wind, water, and solar, your power demand goes down 42.5 percent. Most of that is due to the fact that electricity is more efficient than combustion. If I drive a car, the plug-to-wheel efficiency of an electric car is about 80 to […]
Canada’s environmental movement began to take shape in the early ’70s. Environment Canada, World Wildlife Fund Canada, Greenpeace, the first Faculty of Environmental Studies (York U) and Alternatives Journal were all founded between 1967 and 1971. Roughly 30 years later, A\J produced its first Directory of Canadian Environmental Studies Programs.
One of the best things about travel is that you can see there are a million ways to live a life, and most of them are very good.” Through all his years of experiencing, studying and teaching about travel and tourism, this is one of the most important lessons Joe Pavelka, […]
Avoid the office. And help save the planet. These were Laura King’s guiding principles when she began her studies in wildlife biology. She couldn’t have known they would lead her on a mission to the Indian Ocean to serve as Canada’s New Noah. King is the latest Noah in a […]
Kristi Mahy is a former straw baler and natural plasterer, and now sits on the Board of Directors for the Ontario Natural Building Coalition. Her passions include vegetable gardening, good food, canoe tripping, jogging in the woods and learning new things with her little boy. She is also involved in […]
Paul Baines is the Education & Outreach coordinator for the Great Lakes Commons initiative — a bioregional effort working across boundaries, cultures, and issues protecting the waters as a shared and sacred commons. Paul is also the founder and director of the Great Lakes Commons Map — a collaborative story-mapping […]
Katie Kish is a postdoctoral fellow for the Economics for the Anthropocene project at McGill University and lecturer at the University of British Columbia’s Haida Gwaii Institute. Kaitlin’s background is in systems thinking, ecological economics, and complexity science which she applies to her current research on exploring radical and disruptive […]
Ed Jernigan is professor emeritus at the University of Waterloo Among many other accomplishments, Jernigan is founding director of Waterloo Unlimited, and founding director of the University of Waterloo’s Bachelor of Knowledge Integration program. From 1984 to 2015 Ed served as the program director for the Shad Valley summer enrichment […]
Emily Walsh works with the Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance, raising awareness for the disease and educating audiences about the dangers of asbestos.
The blooms returned in 2002. Many hoped the toxic sludge of algae that blanketed the western and central basins of Lake Erie was gone for good, yet the volume of smothering plant matter was growing steadily. Summers from 2008 to 2010 were bloom-heavy in the shallowest of the Great Lakes. […]
