Canada's Environmental Voice
The Green New Deal (GND) has gotten a lot of attention since legislation was proposed in the U.S. Congress in February. The term derives from Roosevelt’s New Deal policies during the Great Depression. The Green New Deal, however, addresses today’s two most urgent problems simultaneously: climate change and rising inequality. […]
THE OVERRIDING QUESTION in Kai Reimer-Watts’ Beyond Crisis is why is our response to climate change “absurdly slow”? Humanity is already experiencing horrific forest fires and flooding – think Fort McMurray and Hurricane Sandy – yet many of us still engage in the flying, driving and beef-eating which bring wide-spread […]
Carolyn’s passion for advancing the status of marginalized populations is complemented by her degrees in management, international business and political science. She has supported the teams at Mennonite Economic Development Associates (MEDA), Grand Challenges Canada and Sarona Asset Management to operationalize their respective impact investment in emerging markets projects.
Andrew Spicer is an Associate Professor of International Business at the University of South Carolina.
Did you know that the collective noun for bats is a “cloud”, or that in the first scientific classification of mammals, bats were placed close to humans because, like us, they have two nipples? The book Bat, by Tessa Laird, is full of similar tidbits that you will want to share […]
Jill Barclay is an International Development student at the University of Guelph and an embroidery artist known as Cult Embroidery. She is passionate about participatory development and minority visibility and representation.
Niara van Gaalen is a graduate of the International Baccalaureate program and will be entering the University of Waterloo to study architecture in the fall of 2018.
There’s an ethereal quality to much nature writing that can feel oppressively twee, miscalibrated to life in the Anthropocene. Annie Dillard may have had a year to wander the Blue Ridge Mountains playing King of the Meadow with grasshoppers, but that was 1974. Haven’t you heard? A Delaware-sized iceberg is […]
Terrylynn “Será:sera” Brant, Mohawk Nation, Turtle Clan, Tekarihoken Lineage, resides on the Six Nations Territory near Brantford, Ontario. She is a retired teacher and lifelong traditional Seedkeeper in her community. She spends her time farming, beekeeping, breeding corn and rematriating Haudenosaunee seeds back into her community. She is a frequent […]
Imagine catching a GO train to see, taste, and pick the best the world grows and prepares all in one place. Imagine picking your own berries and then drinking squeezed juice while watching some frisky goats. Then imagine sitting down to enjoy what can be done with the cheese they […]
