Canada's Environmental Voice
A green new deal is coming to England, Scotland and Wales this February. Launched this month by the UK government, the Green Deal will offer householders a loan to cover home upgrades that should reduce their heating costs over time. The program is intended to improve the UK’s housing stock, […]
Powering the world entirely through renewable energies is going to bring about some logistical challenges, as technological change always does.
Starting out with entries from bird-lover Ellen Jakubowski, The Wild Side will be a home for posts about animals, plants, wild spaces, ecology, outdoor adventures, and other exciting topics. If you’d like to blog for The Wild Side, email us at blogs@alternativesjournal.ca.
Whether it’s infiltrating reality TV or politics, Donald Trump is no stranger to controversy or the limelight. This doc profiles The Donald’s plans for a megaplex golf resort in Aberdeenshire, Scotland, and the locals who dare to oppose his plans, which include two courses, a 450-room hotel and holiday apartments […]
The Greeks invented the watermill sometime around the 3rd century BC and until very recently the basic design of a wheel and cogs has been used throughout the world to harness modest water flows and power machinery. Modern technology has moved on a little bit since ancient Greece, but we’re […]
Follow Marine Biologist Carl Safina as he takes viewers around the world to show us how today’s ocean issues are being solved in his PBS series “Saving the Ocean.” You can watch full episodes online at the PBS website. Here at A/J he’s giving us a behind the scenes look at […]
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.
This suite of eight-foot by eight-foot paintings by Ottawa-based painter Stephen Hutchings is a character study of storms, each as distinct as a snowflake. “The Tower” is fierce and concentrated, capturing a tornado column as it violently strikes an idyllic green field. “Gathering Storm” is ominous and foreboding, with its swirl […]
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 […]
The political left has been unable to counter the vision of wealth, personal autonomy and traditional values offered by conservative proponents of the free market. To my mind – which admittedly has a left academic bias – we will need a new way of thinking to do so. In this […]
