Canada's Environmental Voice
Life on the north Labrador coast is a test. The land has wild beauty, and its resources have supported human communities for millennia. But it is all rock and hard places. Its people have had to be tough, skilled, willing to support each other, and deeply knowledgeable about their environment. […]
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Martha has been working in the photovoltaic and renewable energy industry around the world for over 10 years. She has a PhD in photovoltaic engineering from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia. She is currently commanding a Mars Simulation mission in Hawaii.
There’s a void the size of the boreal forest between the Canada we want to have, and the Canada our government has envisioned for us. As Canadians, our values of kindness, honesty, respect and integrity lie at the core of how we see ourselves. We take pride in our place […]
This emerging American director’s second documentary opens like a travelogue, with vistas of grand mountains and an idyllic village. The enchanting destination is one where kids can still be kids and obesity, hyperactivity and nature deficit disorder are nowhere to be seen.
The oil and gas industry has a pernicious engineering problem: leaky wells. When industry cements or seals a wellbore, stray gas from shallow or intermediate zones can migrate along the casing to the surface or into aquifers. So too can brine and other hydrocarbons. And with the advent of hydraulic […]
Wayne Salewski. Photo courtesy Earth Day Canada. For Wayne Salewski, it all started with rainbow trout, or a lack thereof. “I would watch my son stand on the banks of the Nechako River and cast a rod for hours and catch only trash fish. There were no rainbow trout because […]
This is an excerpt of the cover story from A\J’s Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and inspiring change in our resource-blessed country and beyond.
Photo gallery: Junction Creek Stewardship Committee
