The whole A\J gang came out to the Green Living Show this month.
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Upcoming Youth Forum Promises to Mobilize Young Environmental Leaders
The Earth Month Youth Forum, presented by Earth Day Canada’s EcoMentors program and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), promises to be brimming with opportunities.
AJ Acts for the Planet: Week One Review
The A\J team is taking up Earth Day Canada’s challenge to Act for the Planet by trying out new habits during Earth Month. We’ll be following (roughly) along with the EDC’s list of 30 challenges, and you can follow our progress – and let us know how you’re doing – […]
Nine Simple Ways to Save the Planet
Climate change is not a problem of the future – it’s happening now, and has emerged as the most demanding environmental and economic challenge facing our planet. Its effects are felt every day, in the form of health problems, environmental damage and a system that doesn’t meet today’s needs. And what […]
Lost Rivers
As the creator of Lost Rivers describes it, we’ve practiced a bad habit in our built environment. “We built our cities on the shores of rivers,” narrates the Montreal-based writer, researcher and director. “Over time, we pushed rivers away – out of sight and out of reach.”
Travesty and Redemption
The Wilderness Within: Remembering David Brower
David Brower’s legacy is unparalleled. The visionary activist practically created the environmental movement, and he might be its most controversial and influential figure. Brower transformed the Sierra Club from a group concerned primarily with California into the most powerful environmental organization in the US. Later he founded Friends of the […]
Who Will Speak for the UK Greenbelt?
I imagine the authors of the seminal work “Limits to Growth” are squirming somewhere as they see UK’s greenbelts threatened. The ‘development related’ threats became a hot topic in late 2012, and while the debate appears dormant in the news at the moment, I suspect it will resurface when updates on […]
Greenbelts Part 1 (Issue 39.2)
The first Greenbelts edition of the A\J podcast features favourite memories of greenbelts around the world. Photo: Arap \ fotolia.com Photo: Donauauen Host Emily Slofstra interviews Ray Tomalty of Smart Cities Research Services about the Montreal Greenbelt. (4:58) A\J contributor Ellen Jakubowski interviews Liana Geidezis on Europe’s Iron Curtain Greenbelt. […]
How Much Space Do Renewable Energies Need?
In 2008, the esteemed Al Gore told Obama he should demand that the US move to 100 per cent renewables within ten years. We’re five years on now, but let’s pretend that Obama is just getting around to this memo on his list of things to do. “Oh darn,” he says to […]
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