Canada's Environmental Voice
From San Antonio to Singapore, couples and singles are considering their environmental impact in a personal way. These environmental do-gooders shop organic, buy biodegradable detergents and drive hybrid cars. Yet when it comes to reproduction, some don’t think twice. When popular articles today talk about “green sex,” they are usually […]
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 […]
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.
Nik has straddled the lines between graphic design, fine arts and scientific research for over 22 years. With a passion for image-making, pushing pixels and communicating complex ideas, his interest in the environment stems from his love of the landscape and a recognition of the profound changes that are impacting […]
Warning labels on packs of cigarettes didn’t keep me from smoking as a teenager. When I quit in my 20s, their newly gruesome imagery really didn’t have much to do with it. But the warnings most definitely coloured my leftover cravings with the dark possibilties of charred lungs, festering gums […]
Originally published on The Green Student. Store shelves are filled with products that have so many extra additives and chemicals. There is no way to know whether something is safe for the body and the environment when purchasing it. A simple way to help the environment, and the body is […]
