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Canada’s Climate Negotiations Song and Dance
There’s a void the size of the boreal forest between the Canada we want to have, and the Canada our government has envisioned for us. As Canadians, our values of kindness, honesty, respect and integrity lie at the core of how we see ourselves. We take pride in our place […]
School’s Out: Lessons from a Forest Kindergarten
This emerging American director’s second documentary opens like a travelogue, with vistas of grand mountains and an idyllic village. The enchanting destination is one where kids can still be kids and obesity, hyperactivity and nature deficit disorder are nowhere to be seen.
Silent But Deadly
The oil and gas industry has a pernicious engineering problem: leaky wells. When industry cements or seals a wellbore, stray gas from shallow or intermediate zones can migrate along the casing to the surface or into aquifers. So too can brine and other hydrocarbons. And with the advent of hydraulic […]
Angling for Success
Wayne Salewski. Photo courtesy Earth Day Canada. For Wayne Salewski, it all started with rainbow trout, or a lack thereof. “I would watch my son stand on the banks of the Nechako River and cast a rod for hours and catch only trash fish. There were no rainbow trout because […]
Carpocalypse Now
This is an excerpt of the cover story from A\J’s Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and inspiring change in our resource-blessed country and beyond.
Urban River Revivalists
Photo gallery: Junction Creek Stewardship Committee
Fundy Rising
AT 16 METRES or more – about five storeys high – the Bay of Fundy’s tides are the highest in the world. Each day along Fundy’s 1,200-kilometre coastline, the tides cover and then expose stony, red-sand beaches and some 3,000 hectares of biologically important mud flats. In the upper bay, […]
Secrets of the Salt Marsh
Photo gallery: salt marshes in Atlantic Canada – click to open
Pet Architecture: Finding North America’s Renewable Culture
The newest wind turbines can fly. Lifted off the ground like a kite, they are designed to solve the problem of accessing greater wind speeds at higher altitudes.
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