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Nik has straddled the lines between graphic design, fine arts and scientific research for over 22 years. With a passion for image-making, pushing pixels and communicating complex ideas, his interest in the environment stems from his love of the landscape and a recognition of the profound changes that are impacting […]
Warning labels on packs of cigarettes didn’t keep me from smoking as a teenager. When I quit in my 20s, their newly gruesome imagery really didn’t have much to do with it. But the warnings most definitely coloured my leftover cravings with the dark possibilties of charred lungs, festering gums […]
Originally published on The Green Student. Store shelves are filled with products that have so many extra additives and chemicals. There is no way to know whether something is safe for the body and the environment when purchasing it. A simple way to help the environment, and the body is […]
Our third annual Art & Media issue is being printed right now and we’re offering it as a free bonus issue to all new subscribers until July 1st! The issue delves into video games, television, hand-held electronics and other personal technology in search of latent environmental messages and opportunities to turn technology […]
A\J’s third annual Art & Media issue delves into video games, television, hand-held electronics and other personal technology in search of latent environmental messages and opportunities to turn technology into a force for positive, conscious change.
“Worms are the heroes of existence.” This is what Alejandro Rojas said as we stood amid the raised beds of Eastdale Collegiate Institute’s 16,000 square foot rooftop garden in Toronto. He was here on a visit from Vancouver to meet with some key actors in food education, FoodShare among them, […]
The federal government has approved the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project from Enbridge, to carry 525,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Bruderheim in northern Alberta to the port town of Kitimat along British Columbia’s rugged Pacific Coast.
In a recent interview, Edmonton Mayor Don Iveson called waste management a “sexy” topic for Edmontonians. Hey, we’re all a little loopy after such a long winter.
Papermaking remains a thriving industry in parts of the non-Western world including India, Nepal and Egypt. In many of these locales there are efforts in place to maintain handmade paper as a viable local industry for both economic and cultural reasons. Handmade paper also often relies on local organic materials […]
Tim Nash, aka ‘The Sustainable Economist’ is a part-time economics professor at Sheridan College in Toronto, Canada as well one of the country’s leading sustainable investment advisers. Daryn Caister, A\J contributing editor and host of the Green Majority radio program, and Stefan Hoste
