Canada's Environmental Voice
Mariam Takkouch is a first year MA student in Curriculum studies at Western University and she’s part of the collaborative program in Environment and Sustainability. Her main research interest centers on school gardens and environmental education. She is a previous Science and Biology teacher. Mariam Takkouch holds a bachelor’s degree […]
The environmental impacts of death are just as important as life’s environmental impacts, but death is often overlooked in environmental actions. This oversight is typically due to cultural discomfort with death, resulting in a lack of environmental considerations when it comes time to plan for a funeral/burial. So, since death […]
Nicole Phillips is a first year Bioarchaeology Masters student at Western University. Her academic training spans Biology, Anthropology, and Archaeology, which has led to her interest in how the environment, microbes, and humans exist and interact in the past and present. This interest is the basis of her research, which […]
Recently, we came across Wallin Snowdon’s CBC article entitled “Fighting forest fires with fire: Pyrotechnics and flaming Ping-Pong balls” (June 22, 2020). What piqued our interest was that it discusses interesting techniques of fighting wildfires from a unique and counterintuitive prospective – fighting fire, with fire! This news article is […]
Kevin is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Geography and Environment in the Collaborative Specialization in Environment and Sustainability at the University of Western Ontario. He completed his MSc in Geography and BSc in Environmental Geoscience at the University of Toronto. Kevin loves to travel and go on adventures […]
Chelsea is a fourth-year Ph.D. candidate in Statistics with a Collaborative Specialization in Environment and Sustainability at the University of Western Ontario. She completed her MSc in Statistics at the University of Western Ontario and BA in Mathematics from Wilfrid Laurier University. Outside of academics, she enjoys camping, theatre, and […]
“Keep calm and carry on.” “Think positive thoughts.” “Be the change you want to see.” Yeah, right. What a joke. Let’s be serious – the vultures of this world – the scavengers that pick at the meek, the fallen, the innocent – they are the ones that get what they […]
The Summer of the Flying Fish is a Chilean-French coproduction directed by Marcela Said. It premiered at Cannes Film Festival (2013) and won awards at the Cinema en Construction in Toulouse, La Habana Film Festival, and the RiverRun International Film Festival. The story unfolds as Manena, a young teenage girl, […]
Victoria Jara is a PhD candidate in Comparative Literature with a specialization in Environment and Sustainability at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She is researching the representations of environmental injustices in Latin American contemporary women novelists and filmmakers, particularly how these artists represent oppressed groups such as girls, indigenous […]
Carelle Mang-Benza is a PhD candidate in Geography at the University of Western Ontario. Her research connects energy transition and Indigenous political ecology, looking at the particular case of an Indigenous community who owns and operates a wind energy project in Ontario. Carelle holds a Bachelor and Master in Chemical […]
