Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Beyond Neutrality – Douglas Torgerson Energy in the Yukon: A Soft Path for a Northern Territory – David Brooks, Margaret Oldfield and Tony Hodge Hydro Power on the Periphery: A Comparison of Newfoundland, Tasmania and the South Island – Peter Crabb Client Centered Community Impact Assessment – Frank Tester […]
Art is powerful. Unlike science, which devotes itself to the refinement of analytical understanding, art has the capacity to go beyond hypothesis and fact to reveal something closer to emotional truth. Art can both explain the world around us, and inspire people to care about it.
Art is powerful. Art can both explain the world around us, and inspire people to care about it. Art & Media is an extension of our annual EcoBooks issue, featuring provocative and compelling visual art by the likes of Iain Baxter&, Broken City Lab, Cory Trépanier, Greg Euclide, Ed Schleimer […]
Paul Kay, chair of Environment and Resource Studies at University of Waterloo, enjoys teaching “Nature: Art, Myth, Folklore.”
Susan Scott, a contributing editor for The New Quarterly: Canadian Writers and Writing, can often be found lurking in the Nature section of her local Chapters.
Power and the Liberation of Nature: The politics of Ecology – Henry Steck Canada, The United States, and the Environment: The Third Alternative – Geoff Mains A Hint from the Past – R. K. Vastokas The Environmental Impact of Economic Activity: a multidisciplinary view – Peter Victor Sound the Sirens: […]
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 […]
The 1960s and 70s were milestone decades for environmental activity; they marked an era when the concept of ecology hit the radar of general public awareness for the first time. They also marked the birth of organizations like Pollution Probe, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, Environment Canada – and our […]
When reviewing a book, I mark it up mercilessly. I jot down notable points, create a list of possible quotes and scribble down potential themes that might shape my review. When my lists are long, jumbled and written in my fast, furious – and almost illegible – handwriting, it means […]
“At some point, someone in America is going to have to make something.” These obvious yet perhaps revolutionary words come from Industrial Evolution, a wonderful new book by Lyle Estill, an entrepreneur, author, and, dare I say, environmental industrialist. The book’s premise reflects something that we all know but generally […]
