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The WTF: The Week This Friday Vol.2
Have we learned nothing?
The WTF: The Week This Friday Vol.1
This is the Week This Friday! 5 quick-and-smart briefs about happenings in the environmental space! When life gives you lemons, build a pipeline – Alberta Minister of Energy “Now is a great time to be building a pipeline because you can’t have protests of more than 15 people,” Sonya Savage, […]
Farm Beefs
Born into a farming family in a small town where corn stalks reign supreme, I saw firsthand the physical effort and mental stamina it takes to be a farmer. I watched my father work 12+-hour days, oftentimes for weeks on end.
Two Million Too Many
I’ve always been intrigued by the ocean. I see it as the perfect combination of beauty and destruction, with unique aquatic life and the potential to cause deadly tsunamis. My fascination lies in the fact that the ocean’s majesty and mystery is not as easily accessible to be explored as […]
Isolation Reflections
For the first time in approximately 7, maybe 8 weeks, I finally left my house this past weekend.
Alexandra Scaman
Alexandra completed her Masters degree in Environment and Sustainability at Western University. She also holds a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Windsor with Honours in Environmental Studies, where she concentrated in Resource Management and was actively involved in undergraduate research. Outside of academia, she enjoys hiking, camping, and spending her summers on the […]
Uprooting Taxes by Planting Trees
Over recent decades, forests have been cut down at alarming rates to create space for housing and agricultural lands. While necessary to accommodate our rapidly growing world population, a balance must be kept between forest coverage and human development, particularly in the context of climate change. Now more than ever, […]
Mesmerizing Mushrooms
It was London, Ontario’s first winter storm of the roaring twenties, and I braved the elements to catch a documentary film about mushrooms at Hyland Cinema. Climate change is making severe weather events more frequent. Just the weekend before, London received 70 mm of rain leading to flooding of the […]
The Disappearing Myth
The tranquil and barren island of Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, illustrates the rich cultural and ecological history of the self-sustaining Rapa Nui civilization that existed in complete isolation from the 13th – 17th century A.D. The island’s several hundred abandoned megalithic statues (moai) stand tall amongst the […]
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