What was most significant about the year 2012? According to Cameron Fenton, National Director of the Canadian Youth Climate Coalition (CYCC), last year climate change became a glaring reality.
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Greenbelts 39.2
Greenbelts tells the stories of greenbelts around the world and the environmental, health and economic benefits they provide to their communities – and the planet. As applicable to combatting desertification in the Sahara as they are to shielding the coastal ecosystems of Vancouver Island, greenbelts have clearly become a land […]
Allan Lissner
Allan Lissner is an award-winning photographer, videographer, editor, and graphic designer based in Toronto, Canada. Some of the organizations Allan has done work with include Amnesty International, GlobalAware, the Indigenous Environmental Network, KAIROS, Oxfam, Make Poverty History, the Norwegian Church Aid, the Ontario Council for International Cooperation, the United Nations […]
The Green Curtain
FROM THE END OF THE SECOND WORLD WAR UNTIL 1989, Europe was severed by a strip of barbed wire, minefields, watchdogs and spring guns. Nations on the Western side, mostly NATO members, were politically, economically and militarily divided from Warsaw Pact signatories in the East. Attempts to traverse the barrier […]
Bear’s-Eye View
Polar bears have been popping up all over the media these days.
14 Centuries of Greenbelts
A\J’s March/April issue will explore the planet’s greenbelts and their impacts and challenges as a land management and community building tool. As an introduction, we’ve put together this historical timeline of greenbelt growth. Take a sneak peek at the issue here. 7th century – The Prophet Muhammad prohibits the removal […]
Is Solar Unsustainable?
As greenhouse gases go, hexafluoroethane (C2F6), nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) and sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) are about as obscure as a high school band at the Rolling Stones concert of atmospheric warming. Nobody’s suggesting they deserve top billing, but Ozzie Zehner of the University of California thinks these three GHGs are worthy […]
Generation Green
Re-published from Green Living Online. They are the next generation of thinkers, teachers, politicians, scientists, activists and environmentalists. People under 25 make up almost half of humankind – three billion people who, for the most part, have little say in political affairs, yet it’s their future that’s at stake.
Poachers Kill Over 11,000 Elephants in Gabon
Originally published on the WWF-Canada blog.
Going Off the Grid
We laughed when the first survivalists went off the grid in the early 20th century. Paranoid and anti-social, they braced for a doomsday scenario that never quite arrived.
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