Canada's Environmental Voice
At first it can be tricky to pin down what Sustainable Waterloo Region does. That’s not to say the volunteer-fuelled non-profit doesn’t share its own success story well. It’s that SWR’s influence is naturally understated, an unseen support beam to the goals and achievements of other businesses trying to cut […]
THE 31st annual Hillside Community Festival at Guelph Lake Conservation Area in Ontario made a notable addition to its clean-up crew this year. After 10 years of dreaming up plans, a small team of volunteers led by Nick Dalton of Magda Farm constructed a solar-powered water-heating system for dishwashing that […]
Originally posted at Environmental Defence. Oil companies like TransCanada spend millions of dollars on ads to greenwash their projects. But no amount of slick advertising can hide the truth about the epic risks of the Energy East pipeline proposal.
To be brutally honest, I actually don’t believe in sustainability at all. I confess! The trend currently identified as “sustainability” would simply be called using common sense if either of my grandmothers were to offer their posthumous opinions. While it is true that new technologies and radical innovations might sell […]
Last December, the world was abuzz with the news: 500,000 cubic kilometres of freshwater had been located under the ocean floor. It’s an amount 100 times greater than all the freshwater used since the beginning of the 20th century. Excited reports were coming from all corners of the globe. And […]
New York Amanda Hunter Being on the ground at the New York City People’s Climate March was an experience of a lifetime.
Elli is a part of Fleming College’s 2014 Environmental Visual Communications program, taught at the ROM in downtown Toronto and holds an Honours Bachelor of Science in Environmental Science and Resources from Trent University. He values time spent with family, friends and nature and seeks to inspire his viewers in understanding […]
Natasha Milijasevic is a Toronto-based management consultant whose practice focuses on projects, processes, data, and how organizations can measure these to improve their social impact. Her past research and publications span group psychology to business strategy. Wife, mother of two and occasionally exhibiting artist, Milijasevic also loves school: she has […]
Until this assignment, I had never thought about the environmental impact of the film industry. But of course, there is an environmental impact from most everything we do, and the making of a film is no exception.
A standoff is brewing east of Toronto in the Rouge Valley between Queen’s Park and the federal government over the proposed Rouge National Urban Park. Ontario Infrastructure Minister Brad Duguid made it clear to federal Environment Minister Leona Aglukkaq that the province would not hand 5,400 acres of land it […]
