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Your Dream Green Job
ECO Canada aims to build the world’s leading environmental workforce. To achieve this, the organization is providing those interested in environmental careers with the necessary skills, education and training that employers demand. The organization also serves as an online base, providing a wide range of job postings, training and certification […]
Editorial: Get to Work
Business will be the force that drives society’s transformation to a low-carbon economy. With limited involvement from the business sector so far, our progress has been inadequate. Yet, of the world’s largest 100 economic entities, 40 are corporations, and they generated over $7.9-trillion (US) in 2012, giving them – rightly or […]
Rethinking Sustainability
Chris Winter has spent two years rethinking our approach to sustainability: a year of research and introspection, and a year of world travel and learning with his family. Two years of reflection, experience, and percolation, and this is what he has found. LIFE IS DEFINED through success and failure, often […]
Careers 41.4
A\J’s Careers issue explores how to maximize your environmental education and paths to take when you graduate. Also included is our 2015 environmental education directory. Some highlights
AJ and Second Revolution Communications
For nearly 45 years, A\J has helped take complex environmental issues and turn them into something understandable to the layperson. While it began life as an academic transfer journal in what was then the new post-secondary study and research area of environmental sciences, filling a need for an independent, peer-reviewed […]
Infrastructure Power to the People
NEW YORK CITY is building a floating park. With green space at a premium in many urban centers, cities like New York are looking for ways to solve multiple problems at once through green infrastructure. The Pier 55 project will result in 2.7 acres of public space balanced on concrete […]
Beyond ‘Poop ‘n’ Scoop’
When Robert and Brenda Vale published Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living in 2009, dog blogs lit up in fury. The authors had crunched the numbers and reported that a medium-sized dog has twice the climate impact of driving a gas-guzzling car 16,000 kilometres – […]
What We Can Learn From the Arctic 30 Saga
As head of media for Greenpeace International, British author Ben Stewart played a critical role in the saga of the Arctic 30, the Greenpeace activists who were charged with piracy and imprisoned for protesting oil drilling in the Russian Arctic by state-owned company Gazprom. He oversaw the massive global campaign […]
Don’t Trust, Don’t Fear, Don’t Beg: The Extraordinary Story of the Arctic Thirty
The rapidly melting Arctic should not be seen as an invitation to drill for oil, says Greenpeace, the protagonist of this gripping and timely book. Between extreme conditions and low safety standards, an Arctic oil spill is an epic ecological disaster just waiting to happen. A paucity of roads, ports […]
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