Canada's Environmental Voice
What is Gordie Wornoff’s worst environmental sin? How can messages of environmental justice be properly communicated? And why should southern Ontario residents be worried about current pipeline proposals? Find out on this episode of the A\J podcast. Daryn Caister of the Green Majority interviews Gordie Wornoff of the show Junk Raiders and […]
In 2002, New York’s Department of Education began a radical measure to boost struggling youth above the grinding realities of poverty by creating hundreds of small schools in embattled communities. Filmed in the South Bronx, this candid documentary profiles the implementation of this project at the Bronx Center for Science […]
YOU JUST TOOK A WATER BALLOON TO THE FACE. The good news is that, as a Canadian, you are rarely so pressed to think about the quality and abundance of your water. Globally, there is enough clean and fresh water for everyone. Nevertheless, huge shortages remain in many parts of […]
Rising Giant Climate change’s impact on our poles is ushering in upheaval throughout the biosphere – and the looming threat of massive methane release.
Andrew Wong is a uWaterloo student and an A\J editorial intern. He led the Students on Ice alumni delegation to the UN Conference on Sustainable Development in June 2012, and was named Canada’s Next Green Journalist by Environmental Defence in 2011.
THROUGHOUT THE MAJESTIC COASTAL FORESTS of the Pacific Northwest, spawning salmon and bears form one of the ecosystem’s most vital, nourishing relationships. Yet their keystone connection faces enormous threats. Wild salmon must survive overzealous fisheries and sea lice-infested farms. Brown and black bears suffer from habitat loss, sport hunting and other […]
Leeza Shabekova is a graduate from the University of Waterloo. She is most passionate about the environment, animals, and music.
LET ME CONFESS something I did a few years back, in the company of an old friend and a complete stranger: I shot and killed a pig in Hawaii. I meant to do it then, but I’d rather not do it again.
1:24 a.m.: “Under intense heat, the core began to break down. Fuel assemblies fragmented, control rod channels warped, steam built up furiously and, finally, steam tubes burst. Tons of steam and water shot into the reactor, causing a tremendous steam explosion. Steam pressure blew the 1000-ton steel- and cement-filled biologic […]
The UNFCCC COP18 climate change conference has been hailed, by some, as a success. The ‘Doha Gateway’ was celebrated in particular for its success at ensuring a second term of the Kyoto Protocol. After the negotiations went more than twenty-four hours overtime, the president of the conference quickly gaveled through […]
