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Web Exclusive: The Breathing Lands
THE ELDERS OF KITCHENUHMAYKOOSIB INNINUWUG (KI) FIRST NATION KNOW that local water flows through their blood, and that their bodies are built of the trout that swim in its clean rivers and lakes. Taking care of their watershed is a sacred responsibility handed down to the KI youth from the […]
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 […]
Editorial: Barriers with Benefits
I SPENT MOST OF MY ADOLESCENCE within (sluggish) commuting range of Toronto. Before ever letting the words, “When I was a kid, none of this stuff was here,” escape my lips, I hadn’t really grasped that the Big Smoke’s overflow was swallowing nature with sprawl. I also didn’t yet know […]
Gleb Raygorodetsky
Gleb Raygorodetsky is an adjunct research fellow with the Traditional Knowledge Initiative at United Nations University – Institute of Advanced Studies, and a research affiliate with the POLIS Project on Ecological Governance at the Centre for Global Studies, University of Victoria in BC.
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.
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