Canada's Environmental Voice
Things are hopping here at A\J these days, but in between preparing for the Green Living Show and putting the final touches on our Art & Media issue, we’re making time this month to share some eco-habits and ideas, starting with Earth Day Canada‘s Act for the Planet.
We complain all the time about the global treatment of renewable energies as we move from fossil fuels to renewables. It’s taking too long. We need a better energy mix. The subsidies are unfair. But we don’t really question the inevitability that the future belongs to renewable energy. After […]
Of the over 400 exhibitors and attractions at this month’s Green Living Show, we’ve picked out a few you won’t want to miss. The Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance will host a tasting pavilion, Junk Raiders star Gordie Wornoff will be teaching how to build a solar heater from recycled […]
In the second podcast for the Greenbelts issue, we talk to Highrise documentarian Katerina Cizek and Earth Day Canada encourages us to Act for the Planet this Earth Month. Have you ever made your own toothpaste? Have you been meaning to start eating more locally? Now’s your chance, as Earth […]
I’d be impressed with anyone who soaks up the entire cocktail of ideas, emotions and possibilities served at TEDxWaterloo without feeling like they just put back a few too many. While the hangover of learning and introspection is still fresh, here are some favourite snippets of insight from each of […]
A new Australian study presents evidence that wind turbine health effects are actually all in the head of the complainants, a finding with strong repercussions for Canada. Led by Simon Chapman of the University of Sydney, the researchers examined records of complaints about all of Australia’s 49 wind farms, dating […]
Canada is blessed with an abundance of forests, from British Columbia’s lush coastal temperate rainforest, where majestic spirit bears roam, to the vast northern boreal forest – North America’s largest intact wilderness. Home to 180 native trees and over 90 thousand species of plants, animals and microorganisms, our forests cover almost […]
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Safina is founding president of Blue Ocean Institute at Stony Brook University, where he also co-chairs the University’s Center for Communicating Science. He has authored 6 books and roughly 200 scientific and popular publications, including features in The New York Times, and National Geographic and a new Foreword to Rachel Carson’s The Sea Around Us. He hosts Saving […]
Read the first post in this series: The Problems With Parabens.
