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FOR BOOK READERS, it’s unimaginable that anyone would not get a rush when they crack open the pages of a new volume, inhale that inky smell and feel the crisp paper. In a small village close to where I live, there’s a publisher who prints on site. Tim Inkster, co-owner […]
This quietly jarring documentary about National Geographic photographer James Balog’s work explores the challenge of bringing climate change into focus. In search of a seductive, meaningful display of global warming’s impact, Balog realized “the story is in the ice, somehow,” and created the Extreme Ice Survey (extremeicesurvey.org) in 2005.
LAST JUNE, I returned to Banff National Park after a long absence. It was good to be back. Banff, Canada’s first and most famous national park, is an important part of my home range. My daughter was born in Banff ’s Mineral Springs Hospital, her birth witnessed by a herd […]
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Editorial: Mayday! Mayday! Empty Nets – Daniel PaulyFisheries are in decline around the world as fishing technology outstrips ecological capacity. Freshwater Fiasco – Jon Hornung Ocean Oil Threatens Fisheries – Gretchen Fitzgerald
Please note, the print copy you receive of this issue may be a black and white reprint. Editorial: Hell on Earth Dams, Guns and Refugees – Peter PenzIrresponsible development and environmental conflicts displace rural people, especially when the tensions lead to violence.Arab Marshland Water Rises with Hussein’s Fall Christina Rehbein
Note: This issue is available as a PDF only. Instead of receiving a copy in the mail, you will be emailed a link to download it. Editorial: The end of the world as we know it – Robert Gibson Visions of Nature and Society: A History of the Ecosystem Concept […]
By day, Nic Boshart is the digital services manager at the Association of Canadian Publishers. By night, he is coordinating editor at Invisible Publishing. A busy guy, he swears he will email you back soon.
A real-life A\J staff picnic in Victoria Park, a 2-minute walk away.
If Herman Daly is the economist for sustainable development, Amory Lovins the physicist and Al Gore the politician, William Ophuls must be the philosopher. Ophuls’ first book on the subject, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (1997), placed him among the few scholars of the time (Rifkin and Daly in […]
