Have we learned nothing?
Have we learned nothing?
This is the Week This Friday! 5 quick-and-smart briefs about happenings in the environmental space! When life gives you lemons, build a pipeline – Alberta Minister of Energy “Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more than 15 people,” Sonya Savage, […]
In the race to remove the trillion tons of excess carbon dioxide in our atmosphere, the treatments we choose for this problem ought to at least be slightly better than the problem itself. We have proposed solutions on the table, but the carbon dioxide removal (CDR) landscape is complex, risky, […]
To be honest, when I first started researching this article, I wasn’t 100% certain what 100% renewable energy really meant. It sounded good, but I definitely couldn’t give you a definition of it. And that’s a little surprising, given how often it’s discussed by governments, academics and the media. But […]
The cottage on the lake, the cabin in the woods – these are the trademarks of an iconic Canadian summer. Cottages are our own personal slice of the wilderness that defines Canada, and those lucky enough to own a cottage also feel a connection to that place that holds so […]
The environment has not been so front and center in Canadian politics since the early 1990s. October’s federal election suddenly has three parties (Greens, Liberals and NDP) looking to outdo each other on environmental concerns. It has been a long time since government in Ottawa made our glaringly obvious environmental […]
In his 2014 memoir, Rumours of Glory, music icon Bruce Cockburn writes of trips he took on freighters across the ocean to Europe as a young man, his desire to leave his hometown of Ottawa after high school for the Berklee School of Music in Boston, and drives
Many people think that insects are some of the most useless and annoying creatures that exist. But that’s not the case in aquatic ecosystems, where they serve important roles in biomonitoring.
On this National Indigenous People’s Day, June 21st, 2019, the Greenbelt Foundation and Alternatives Journal are pleased to announce the first look of the Moccasin Identifie