Canada's Environmental Voice
Opponents of Enbridge’s Line 9B pipeline in Southern Ontario are scrambling in the wake of its tentative approval earlier this month by the National Energy Board to highlight just how dangerous overhauling the 38-year-old, 639-kilometre pipeline could be for flora and fauna alike.
Reading Chris Wood’s The Last Great Water Fight, in 2010 in The Walrus, was truthfully a life-altering experience. His hauntingly evocative portrayal of the Deh Cho, the Mackenzie River, and all the complex linked relationships, human and otherwise, that depend on its continued well-being was inspired and inspiring. His essay is a […]
Ontario is attempting to clear away some of the regulatory red tape and overlap that keeps Ministry of Natural Resources officials from moving quickly to combat invasive species with a new Invasive Species Act introduced late last month.
Daniella Quarrey is completing her Bachelor of Environmental Studies in International Development and Bachelor of Arts in Spanish and Latin American Studies at the University of Waterloo this semester. She is currently living in the Amazon jungle working at the Peruvian Amazon Research Institute helping foster sustainable development for cacao and […]
To help satisfy chocolate cravings all over the world, many Peruvian farmers have chosen to dedicate their lives to organic cacao cultivation. But they need more support from agricultural research institutes for local sustainable economic development to thrive.
We tend to section nature into neat grids with roads and fences. We wrap it up into little parcels of parks surrounded by pavement. Forests are cleared for farms. This interaction between the natural and the constructed is the subject of Ecotopia, a diverse collection of multimedia artwork currently making […]
Chris Hadfield, perhaps the first out-of-this- world rock star, wastes no time before waxing poetic in his book about the bounteous beauty of space and our planet. “The windows of a spaceship casually frame miracles,” he writes in the opening paragraph of his introduction. “Every 92 minutes, another sunrise [because […]
In People of a Feather, filmmaker and ecologist Joel Health takes viewers on an Arctic adventure with time-lapse video footage, underwater photography, and raw scenes of Inuit life to show how environmental changes are impacting the people and wildlife of the Belcher Islands in Canada’s Hudson Bay. The film was […]
When Russia bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympic Games, they committed to green building standards and a “zero waste” policy that promised not to add to landfills. The $51-billion Sochi Olympics – the most expensive in history – will truly have costly consequences to the environment. The area of […]
Rachel is a community builder, organizer, artist, performer, wordsmith, and facilitator. She spends much of her time working within environmental justice movements, and, more specifically, has been engaged for a number of years in activism that opposes the harmful effects and practices of the Canadian extractive industry. Joanne is a writer […]
