Editorial: When the Going Gets Tough – Ray Tomalty Bitter Harvest – Joan MarshallFor the people of Grand Manan, government-approved exploitation of rockweed is yet another outside threat to local ecosystems and economic sustainability
Editorial: When the Going Gets Tough – Ray Tomalty Bitter Harvest – Joan MarshallFor the people of Grand Manan, government-approved exploitation of rockweed is yet another outside threat to local ecosystems and economic sustainability
With apologies to Max, the central character in Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic Where The Wild Things Are, and his arduous journey “in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room”, Alice the Moose puts his to shame. Alice left her home park in […]
The Nexus of Technology and the Environment Book review of Technology and the Environment in HistorySara B. Pritchard and Carl A. Zimring. John Hopkins University Press, 2020. 264 pages. Written by Jane Pangilinan Technology and the Environment in History dives intellect first into the nexus of envirotech to spark what […]
READY PLAYER ONE Written by David McConnachie It’s all about the game and how you play it.All about control and if you can take it. Motorhead, THE GAME (2001) So, you want to make a life – and a living – doing good? Good for you – and, hopefully, good […]
The Green Carpet Kelly Drennan from Fashion Takes Action walks the talk when it comes to sustainability. Written by Greta Vaivadaite Kelly Drennan is a systems thinker, thought leader and disruptor devoted to making change within the fashion industry. In 2007, she founded Fashion Takes Action, out of her […]
The Enterprising Ecopreneur Making the world greener – one business at a time. Written by Greta Vaivadaite Daniela Arroyo-Olson is the 2019 Lamborghini Future Fab Award winner in the sustainability category. She studied MSc Climate Change, Management & Finance and a certificate in Machine Learning for […]
(ORIGINAL POSTED APRIL 21, 2021) CAUTION: Serendipitous roads may cause new perspectives It was early March, just before Covid-19 exploded into our collective consciousness. We – my partner and I – decided on a quick weekend getaway to celebrate an anniversary. We live in Kitchener and had wanted to visit […]
Do you have faith in renewable energy powering our future? I am definitely an advocate for clean energy and a fossil-fuel-free future (pardon the excessive alliteration), but I do still have my doubts, especially concerning an equitable transformation and distribution of renewable energy. This podcast episode titled “Faith, Hope, and […]
A\J, or Alternatives Journal, is Canada’s national environmental magazine, independently publishing intelligent & informed environmental journalism since 1971. A\J is published by Alternatives Media Inc, a registered Canadian charity that is dedicated to publishing hundreds of stories, inspiring thousands of meaningful actions and engaging with millions of Canadians, each and every day. Our mandate […]