Canada's Environmental Voice
There’s an ethereal quality to much nature writing that can feel oppressively twee, miscalibrated to life in the Anthropocene. Annie Dillard may have had a year to wander the Blue Ridge Mountains playing King of the Meadow with grasshoppers, but that was 1974. Haven’t you heard? A Delaware-sized iceberg is […]
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In The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, the feel-good travel epic released last Christmas, Ben Stiller plays a compulsive daydreamer who travels around the world in search of a missing photograph. Mitty’s hunt for the photograph allows him to escape his boring life working in a darkened photo lab at […]
I HAVE NEVER gone south in the winter. The closest I came was a three-day, mid-February family getaway in Niagara Falls at a hotel with an indoor waterslide park. The chlorine infusion did wonders for my skin! I actually prefer going to Ottawa to skate on the canal or ski […]
With apologies to Max, the central character in Maurice Sendak’s 1963 classic Where The Wild Things Are, and his arduous journey “in and out of weeks and through a day and into the night of his very own room”, Alice the Moose puts his to shame. Alice left her home park in […]
Letters from the Editors Ishani Dasgupta, Alex Goddard, & Siobhan Mullally Ishani Dasgupta’s Letter I am a self-proclaimed journalist, environmental activist, and friend to mother nature. Although I am most proud of being a human being and believe me when I say, I understand the irony of that statement compared […]
Called to Duty How ecoanxiety is being transformed into youth-led climate advocacy. Written by Emma Tamlin I grew up on an 80 acre-farm in rural Ontario. I grew up immersed in nature, building forts, getting stuck in the mud, picking wild berries for breakfast and building makeshift rafts out of […]
(ORIGINAL POSTED APRIL 21, 2021) CAUTION: Serendipitous roads may cause new perspectives It was early March, just before Covid-19 exploded into our collective consciousness. We – my partner and I – decided on a quick weekend getaway to celebrate an anniversary. We live in Kitchener and had wanted to visit […]
Creators of The Playbook for Progress Natasha Arsenijevich (B.E.S, M.E.S) is a sustainability leader and business strategist with expertise in sustainable built environments, business and strategy development, agriculture and food studies, women’s studies, and professional writing. She has developed an award-winning sustainability program and has worked on a number of […]
A Guide To Better Choices The Eco Hero Handbook: Simple Solutions to Tackle Eco-Anxiety Tessa Wardley. Quarto Publishing, 2021. 144 pages. Reviewed by Siobhan Mullally The more I learn about environmental issues, the more I realize that everything we do as individuals has an impact on the Earth. The impacts […]
