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From climate inaction to government class action
As politicians dither, the clocks on climate change are ticking. The Canadian government has continued to promise action on climate change—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—but its commitment to change remains to be seen. Many Canadians have become fed up with government inaction on climate, including a young […]
Nish Dish: Nourishing the Community
Johl Whiteduck Ringuette is the proprietor of NishDish Marketeria and Catering, an Indigenous restaurant in downtown Toronto centred on reclaiming and sharing traditional Anishinaabe food and knowledge.
Canada’s National Plastic Strategy
The Surfrider Foundation is a North American organization devoted to protecting ocean shorelines. The organization was formed in 1984 and has made reducing plastic waste a major priority. In November 2016, Hanjin Shipping Co.
Little Bugs with a Big Impact
Many people think that insects are some of the most useless and annoying creatures that exist. But that’s not the case in aquatic ecosystems, where they serve important roles in biomonitoring.
Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming
David Wallace-Wells’ 2017 essay in New York Magazine entitled “The Uninhabitable Earth” depicted stark future scenarios for a climate change-afflicted world. It clearly struck a chord: it was the most read article in the magazine’s history. Now Wallace-Wells has released a book of the same title, and it has also […]
The Lost Sea
Half a century ago, a sea disappeared in Central Asia. The Aral Sea was once the fourth-largest lake on planet Earth. It was fed by two rivers – Syr Darya and Amu Darya, until Soviet leaders redirected these rivers to irrigate cotton fields in the 1960.
How the Grand River Water Walk Came to Be
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Being the Change
REVIEWED by Michael Polanyi AS SOMEONE WHO lives comfortably in a developed country, I struggle, as I’m sure others do, with how to live a meaningful and joyful life in a world that requires a drastic reduction in greenhouse gas emissions in order to avoid uncontrolled planetary warming. I have done […]
Beyond Crisis
THE OVERRIDING QUESTION in Kai Reimer-Watts’ Beyond Crisis is why is our response to climate change “absurdly slow”? Humanity is already experiencing horrific forest fires and flooding – think Fort McMurray and Hurricane Sandy – yet many of us still engage in the flying, driving and beef-eating which bring wide-spread […]
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