Canada's Environmental Voice
Urban form is crucial to environmental outcomes including habitat, climate change and air quality. In compact cities with commerce and residential neighborhoods in close proximity, travel is reduced and people are more likely to walk, cycle or use transit when they do travel within the city. In sprawling cities automobiles […]
The A\J team is taking up Earth Day Canada’s challenge to Act for the Planet by trying out new habits during Earth Month. We’ll be following (roughly) along with the EDC’s list of 30 challenges, and you can follow our progress – and let us know how you’re doing – […]
It would take more than 200 days to walk across Canada. More if you stopped at New Brunswick’s illustrious Potato World Museum. It’s understandable then, that the quintessential trans-Canadian roadtrip involves a beat up old Honda Civic, rather than a sturdy pair of walking shoes.
Anyone reading the news recently has likely heard of the ongoing battle for long-term funding solutions for public transit in the Greater Toronto and Hamilton Area (GTHA) and beyond. While the relatively unknown provincial transit agency Metrolinx has drawn up plenty of lines on maps, there is currently no money […]
Let’s say you want to install a solar panel on your roof but there’s a tree in the way. Trees are great and all, but for the sake of green energy you’d want to cut it down, right? Actually, maybe not. In fact, if you own a tree (just one […]
Julia is passionate about understanding the needs of business, NGOs, and government in order to help to make environmental issues a priority and create impactful change. She is currently researching Ontario’s low-carbon economy and working as a Policy Analyst at the Institute for Competitiveness and Prosperity, and lives in Toronto. […]
The Earth Month Youth Forum, presented by Earth Day Canada’s EcoMentors program and the Royal Ontario Museum (ROM), promises to be brimming with opportunities.
The Student Association of International Development (SAID) at the University of Waterloo recently partnered with the Waterloo chapter of Engineers Without Borders (EWB) to host a two-day conference centered on the emerging role of the private sector in international development. Students from many faculties and programs attended the event, as […]
The Olympic Games in London promised to be the most sustainable Olympics ever. In fact, their bid for the Olympics revolved mainly around sustainability. They guaranteed green energy and technology, reduced water and waste consumption, increased green spaces and car-free games. We are now half way between the 2012 summer […]
I’d be impressed with anyone who soaks up the entire cocktail of ideas, emotions and possibilities served at TEDxWaterloo without feeling like they just put back a few too many. While the hangover of learning and introspection is still fresh, here are some favourite snippets of insight from each of […]
