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Drew Robert Winter is the director of publications at the Institute for Critical Animal Studies and a PhD student at Rice University in the Anthropology department. Named one of the “Top 20 activists under 30” by Veg-News magazine for his leadership and organizing for nonhuman animals, he works at the […]
Isaac Yuen has a Masters in Environmental Education and Communication from Royal Roads University. His essays and creative nonfiction pieces on nature, culture, and identity have been published in various environmental magazines and literary journals.
Our latest issue features a profile of creative Vancouverite Shaun Mavronicolas and his home-scaled solution to putting food on the table. Here’s an excerpt, plus a tour of Mavronicolas’ DIY setup and the essential components that make aquaponics work.
Environmental education teaches how to be in the world, how to connect and partner with others to achieve a goal, how to synthesize disparate world views and consider innovative possibilities as solutions. A\J’s 2014 Education issue digs into what it means to get an environmental education – plus where to get […]
At first it can be tricky to pin down what Sustainable Waterloo Region does. That’s not to say the volunteer-fuelled non-profit doesn’t share its own success story well. It’s that SWR’s influence is naturally understated, an unseen support beam to the goals and achievements of other businesses trying to cut […]
THE 31st annual Hillside Community Festival at Guelph Lake Conservation Area in Ontario made a notable addition to its clean-up crew this year. After 10 years of dreaming up plans, a small team of volunteers led by Nick Dalton of Magda Farm constructed a solar-powered water-heating system for dishwashing that […]
On October 4, in more than 30 countries, and as many as 160 cities, more than 20,000 people took to the streets to make a strong and diverse call to save the Arctic, celebrating the top of our world and the public demand for its protection. #IceRide took place from […]
Originally posted at Environmental Defence. Oil companies like TransCanada spend millions of dollars on ads to greenwash their projects. But no amount of slick advertising can hide the truth about the epic risks of the Energy East pipeline proposal.
To be brutally honest, I actually don’t believe in sustainability at all. I confess! The trend currently identified as “sustainability” would simply be called using common sense if either of my grandmothers were to offer their posthumous opinions. While it is true that new technologies and radical innovations might sell […]
The latest report from the Windfall Centre argues Ontario’s economy could benefit from the production of electric vehicles (EVs) to the tune of $3.6 billion by 2025.
