Author, activist and cancer-survivor, Sandra Steingraber is often compared to Rachel Carson. Every week, she writes an essay on environmental health. Follow her at livingdownstream.com/essays.
Author, activist and cancer-survivor, Sandra Steingraber is often compared to Rachel Carson. Every week, she writes an essay on environmental health. Follow her at livingdownstream.com/essays.
Stephen Bocking, a regular contributor to Alternatives, is professor at and chair of the Environmental and Resource Science/Studies Program at Trent University and author of A\J’s EcoLogic blog. You can follow Stephen on Twitter at @BockingStephen or read his blog: Environment, History and Science.
George Meyer is a long-time writer on The Simpsons. This piece originally appeared on The Green Room – a series of opinion articles on environmental issues running weekly on the BBC News website: www.bbc.co.uk/news. Reprinted with permission.
Gareth Lind is a cartoonist and graphic designer. He has contributed to Alternatives for nigh on 20 years. Websites: lindtoons.com \ linddesign.ca.
Eric is the founder and executive director of Night\Shift, downtown Kitchener’s nocturnal adventure festival, and he helped craft the rebranding of A\J as its editor-in-chief (2012-2014). He has a dusty Bachelor of History from uWaterloo and has worked as a journalist in Canada since 2000, holding editing positions with up! Magazine (WestJet Airlines’ in-flight publication), Adbusters, Reader’s Digest and […]
Co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food Systems Roundtable, Ellen Desjardins writes extensively about food security issues. Her current research explores how people respond to a changing food environment.
Chris Wood, is an author, speaker and journalist. He first wrote about the environment in the 1970s, winning awards for his coverage of nuclear power and agrochemicals. His most recent book, Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources (2013), written with Ralph Pentland, details how successive federal governments […]
Chris McLaughlin is a principal in the consulting firm Schneider McLaughlin and a research associate of the Dofasco Centre for Engineering and Public Policy at McMaster University. He is also the executive director of the Coalition of the Niagara Escarpment. For original research in applied resilience theory, see Ecology and Society at http://ecologyandsociety.org, a […]
Chris Magwood is executive director of The Endeavour Centre, a non-profit sustainable building school in Peterborough, Ontario, and author of the forthcoming Making Better Buildings: A Comparative Guide to Sustainable Construction for Homeowners and Contractors.
Beverley Thorpe is international director of Clean Production Action.Download the Clean Production Action EPR toolkit at www.cleanproduction.org