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Alexandra Scaman

Alexandra completed her Masters degree in Environment and Sustainability at Western University. She also holds a Bachelor’s of Science from the University of Windsor with Honours in Environmental Studies, where she concentrated in Resource Management and was actively involved in undergraduate research. Outside of academia, she enjoys hiking, camping, and spending her summers on the […]

Alexander Goddard

Alex has a background in Environmental Science holding an undergraduate degree in Environmental Studies, and a Masters of Environment and Sustainability (MES) from Western University. Alex was born and raised in Barbados, a small island in the Caribbean, and has spent the past seven years attending school in Canada, while […]

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Uprooting Taxes by Planting Trees

Over recent decades, forests have been cut down at alarming rates to create space for housing and agricultural lands. While necessary to accommodate our rapidly growing world population, a balance must be kept between forest coverage and human development, particularly in the context of climate change. Now more than ever, […]

Alexa Ouellette

Alexa Ouellette is a Masters of Environment and Sustainability student at Western University’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability.

Hilary Boucher

Hilary Boucher is a student in the Masters of Environment and Sustainability program at Western University. She has a MSc. in Pharmaceutical Science. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, writing, cooking, cycling, and sewing.

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The Disappearing Myth

The tranquil and barren island of Rapa Nui, commonly known as Easter Island, illustrates the rich cultural and ecological history of the self-sustaining Rapa Nui civilization that existed in complete isolation from the 13th – 17th century A.D. The island’s several hundred abandoned megalithic statues (moai) stand tall amongst the […]

JADE SIEWNARINE

Jade is in her final year at Western University and plans to graduate this spring with an Honors Double Major in Environment and Health Geography and Criminology. Currently she is completing her undergraduate thesis which addresses the topic of sustainable clothing and its availability in a mid-sized Canadian city such […]

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Free Virtual Reality Tours in Downtown Kitchener!

On Wednesday, February 19th, 2020, Alternatives Media and Western University’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability will be hosting a FREE Virtual Reality exposition on key areas under the banner of environment and sustainability at the Project 220 event space in Carl Zehr Square, Kitchener City Hall. The event will be […]

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When Jane is Gone

Jane Goodall leaned back in an armchair by the window. It was a cold, wet southern Ontario afternoon in late April. Days earlier, Goodall gave an Earth Day lecture at the University of Toronto, and between travelling, interviews, convocations and distinguished luncheons, the planet’s most famous primatologist hasn’t had a […]