Canada's Environmental Voice
This article was originally published at the Network for Business Sustainability’s Thought Leaders blog. Cut back. Reduce harm. Do without. Use less stuff. Be less bad. Stripped down to these blunt phrases, the prevalent narrative surrounding sustainability — one based on ideas about constraints, limits and damage mitigation — is […]
Originally published on the WWF-Canada blog.
We’re offering up a preview of our Greenbelts issue, coming out in March. In this issue, we tell the stories of greenbelts around the world, including the 12,500-km pan-European pathway along the former iron curtain, home to this gorgeous Balkan lynx.
It’s been said that every migrant to a mountain town idealizes that town in exactly the form it existed in on the day they arrived. In The Weekender Effect, Canmore, Alberta-based author and water use expert Robert Sandford suffers from a severe case of this particular nostalgia.
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.
Originally published by the Healing Path Centre for Natural Medicine.
Research confirms that coyotes in New Brunswick have bred with wolves, which explains why they are considerably larger than their Western cousins. Some biologists suggest that we are witnessing the evolution of a new species, a successful hybrid of coyote and wolf, thus “coywolf”. What interests me is the concept […]
An international debate over the relative pros and cons of bioenergy has intensified between environmental organizations, governments and climate change leaders in recent years. This lively discussion has been dragging out by the delayed release of the European Union’s sustainability requirements for solid biofuels (originally expected in early 2012).
The first half of February has been quite eventful here at A\J. We ushered in the month with the Guelph Organic Conference, where we met a lot of great people and sampled tasty organic treats. Not to mention learning valuable lessons on bringing organic food to more tables.
The flow of information and ideas between community residents and policy makers is often a one-way street. When someone tries to flip that idea on its head, it seems almost utopian – until you realize that the flipside is how things ought to be. Enter the Yes In My Back […]
