Re-published from Green Living Online. Author Michael Pollan says everything he’s learned about food can be summed up in seven little words: “Eat food, not too much, mostly plants.”
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No Slow Death for Nuclear Power
This is a response to “Mourning the Slow Death of Nuclear Power“ in Stu Campana’s Renewable Energy blog.
Ontario Forests Will Be Net Carbon Source Until 2040
Ontario’s Crown forests are expected to remain a net source of carbon emissions for the next three decades, according to the latest forestry report from the Ministry of Natural Resources.
Blocking the Arteries of the Tar Sands
There’s been a tremendous amount of media coverage surrounding Enbridge’s Northern Gateway pipeline proposal, which spawned an incredible resistance movement led primarily by indigenous nations of British Columbia. Events such as Defend Our Coast attracted thousands of protestors, while the Yinka Dene Alliance made national headlines with their anti-pipeline tour across […]
Lifecycle Analysis Success Stories
A note about terminology: Lifecycle approach is a “systematic way of looking at the life of a product, technology, or process” allowing people or companies to measure and reduce costs to our economy and environment (NRTEE). This differs from lifecycle analysis (or assessment), which is “a technique to assess environmental impacts associated wi
The Right MINDSPACE for Policy Making
SHOULD POLICY MAKERS USE A CHECKLIST when designing public policies? The authors of MINDSPACE think they should.
Fair Trade: A Human Journey
With 350 riveting images, Québec-based photojournalist Éric St.-Pierre takes us into the lives of coffee growers drying beans on jute-covered tables in Ethiopia, flower workers wrapping roses in cardboard boxes in Ecuador, and rice farmers sowing seeds in paddy fields in Thailand. St.-Pierre doesn’t hide the harshness of their lives. […]
As Above, So Below
Although it opens by framing sunlight on a forest floor, it’s hardly obvious that Sarah J. Christman’s newest (and lengthiest) documentary explores how matter is reshaped by energy. Contemplative scenery reveals as much as the dialogue, while unidentified speakers and a deliberate absence of talking heads keep the narrative elusive.
Whatever It Takes
In 2002, New York’s Department of Education began a radical measure to boost struggling youth above the grinding realities of poverty by creating hundreds of small schools in embattled communities. Filmed in the South Bronx, this candid documentary profiles the implementation of this project at the Bronx Center for Science […]
Stressed-Out Symbiosis
THROUGHOUT THE MAJESTIC COASTAL FORESTS of the Pacific Northwest, spawning salmon and bears form one of the ecosystem’s most vital, nourishing relationships. Yet their keystone connection faces enormous threats. Wild salmon must survive overzealous fisheries and sea lice-infested farms. Brown and black bears suffer from habitat loss, sport hunting and other […]
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