A\J’s Careers issue explores how to maximize your environmental education and paths to take when you graduate. Also included is our 2015 environmental education directory. Some highlights
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Resilience of the Indigenous
Despite growing evidence, there are still climate change deniers refusing to believe that extreme weather conditions, retreating glaciers and rising sea levels are a reality.
Why Living Local Matters
Are you up for a challenge? LiveLocalKW, a weeklong event, challenges you and others living in the Region of Waterloo to eat, shop and play local from September 13-19. Kitchener-Waterloo businesses are participating in the event by offering discounts and incentives to participants. LiveLocalKW hopes to strengthen the sense of […]
Big Oil Malaysia
Think Global is a blog series from Canada Conserves’ Chris Winter. During a year-long trip around the world with his family, Chris is sharing examples of how other countries are dealing with environmental and sustainability challenges, and teasing out ideas and approaches that we can apply at home. You learn some […]
Driving Down Death
Think Global is a blog series from Canada Conserves’ Chris Winter. During a year-long trip around the world with his family, Chris is sharing examples of how other countries are dealing with environmental and sustainability challenges, and teasing out ideas and approaches that we can apply at home.
Beyond ‘Poop ‘n’ Scoop’
When Robert and Brenda Vale published Time to Eat the Dog? The Real Guide to Sustainable Living in 2009, dog blogs lit up in fury. The authors had crunched the numbers and reported that a medium-sized dog has twice the climate impact of driving a gas-guzzling car 16,000 kilometres – […]
What We Can Learn From the Arctic 30 Saga
As head of media for Greenpeace International, British author Ben Stewart played a critical role in the saga of the Arctic 30, the Greenpeace activists who were charged with piracy and imprisoned for protesting oil drilling in the Russian Arctic by state-owned company Gazprom. He oversaw the massive global campaign […]
Why I Spent Six Days Protesting on a Shell Oil Rig
MIRIAM NINA FRIEDRICH is one of the six Greenpeace volunteers who boarded Shell’s oil rig, the Polar Pioneer, on April 1, 2015, to protest Arctic drilling. The goal of the action – referred to as The Crossing – was not only to expose Shell’s plans but also to gain global […]
AUDIO: Preserved Great White Shark Travels by Bus to Inspire Australians
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Comedy of the Commons
Most environmentalists are familiar with the so-called “tragedy of the commons.” In 1968, Garrett Hardin popularized the idea in Science as a way to understand environmental deterioration of common-pool resources.
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