Canada's Environmental Voice
Interviews with: Steve Carpenter of Enermodal Engineering on the booming green building industry in Canada (14:12) Andre Roy on the new, super-eco friendly ENV3 Environment Building at the University of Waterloo (10:30) Stephen Svenson on rebuilding New Orleans' Lower Ninth Ward with 'green' houses (15:30)
“Shifting our behaviour to achieve sustainability depends on society’s ability to reconnect with nature,” writes Brendon Larson. In his first solo-authored book, Metaphors for Environmental Sustainability, Larson, who teaches in the Environment and Resource Studies program at the University of Waterloo and is president of Ontario Nature, encourages his readers […]
Humanizing the Economy describes an alternative economic system and accompanies it with examples of how such a system is being built around the world. Beginning with a critique of capitalism, author John Restakis argues that before the emergence of this economic order, market transactions were embedded in social relations that […]
Good photographs and good poetry have a great deal in common: They both offer lessons in seeing, placing their audience as if behind the lens or the pen, opening them to the world in a way not before realized. Catherine Owen’s book of poetry, Seeing Lessons, demonstrates the power of […]
There is no denying the unique vantage point of Timothy Leduc’s new book, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North. Your first clue is right there in the subtitle: that’s dialogues with, not about, Canada’s northern ecology.
Interviews with: Jeff Gailus on Parks Canada's 100th anniversary (13:20) Tenille Bonoguore discussing the Canadian Boreal Forest Agreement (10:40) Will Turner on Conservation International's 10 global forest hotspots (14:12)
Interview with Nicola Ross (Alternatives editor-in-chief) on Alternatives' 40th anniversary special issue. (8:15) Interview with founding editor Bob Paehlke discussing past 40 years of Alternatives. (12:40) Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk discusses declining energy return on investment and pine beetles. (20:53) Ken Ogilvie on Pollution Probe and the evolution of the environmental […]
Apart from a knowledgeable mentor, the field guide is a nature enthusiast’s most valuable tool. With the right guide, a seemingly featureless swath of unfamiliar habitat comes alive with ecological insight. In ornithology, guides are particularly valuable due to the immense variability that birds display. In The Crossley ID Guide: […]
Fashion is one of the most profitable industries in the world, but we rarely hear about the ugly practices used to keep beauty in business. For instance, the Aral Sea in Uzbekistan has diminished by 90 per cent, partially due to the irrigation of cotton crops for the textile industry […]
Here on Earth: A Natural History of the Planet is as much a personal letter to humanity as a natural history of the planet. It asks, “Will ours be a Medean or Gaian future?”, referring to diverging hypotheses named for Greek goddesses, one destructive and the other life-giving.
