Canada's Environmental Voice
NIGHT\SHIFT is downtown Kitchener’s annual overnight festival of art, culture and nocturnal adventure, initiated by A\J in 2013. In addition to publishing a national magazine, A\J is a registered charity engaged in environmental education and community-building activities. Envisioning a better future is a central goal at A\J, and exploration of […]
This past May, Vermont became the first state/province in North America to pass legislation mandating labels on GMO foods independently from other states.
A “cool” and affordable high performance electric vehicle has been as elusive as sighting a snow leopard in the Himalayas. We have seen so many hybrids and hybrid versions of the same old auto models in the marketplace of late that we have all but lost interest entirely in the […]
What do you get when you put one innovative BC artist, a passionate curator, fifty musicians, and fifty porters, sound techs and camera operators on a melting glacier slated for controversial development as a four-season ski resort?
Richard Watts: Three Seasons Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, BC \ April 11 to July 13
In March, the National Energy Board (NEB) approved the reversal of Enbridge’s Line 9, a pipeline running from Sarnia to Montréal. Critics such as Environmental Defence and West Coast Environmental Law have pointed out flaws in the regulatory process. The project was not required to undergo a comprehensive environmental assessment […]
The world is awash in electronic waste. With an ever-expanding market for electronic goods and continually shrinking product lifecycles, managing e-waste has become a global problem. In addition to the growing volumes of discarded computers, monitors, laptops, cellphones and other electronics in our landfills, e-waste often finds its way (by […]
In his book, The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia, Bernard Suits defines the act of playing games as “the voluntary attempt to overcome unnecessary obstacles.” It’s easy to dismiss playing games as an impediment to the real-world experiences required to develop an environmental ethos.
Director Carol Ann Weaver organized Sound in the Land 2014 – Music and the Environment with a simple purpose: “We hope to listen to the earth differently.” And so for three days people from around the world came together to listen to the Earth.
The federal government has approved the $5.5-billion Northern Gateway pipeline project from Enbridge, to carry 525,000 barrels of crude oil each day from Bruderheim in northern Alberta to the port town of Kitimat along British Columbia’s rugged Pacific Coast.
