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Andrew Reeves

Andrew Reeves is the Editor-in-Chief of Alternatives Journal. Overrun, his book about Asian carp in North America, will be published in Spring 2019 by ECW Press. His work has also appeared in the Globe & MailSpacing and Corporate Knights. Follow him on Twitter.

Author Articles

floo

The Toronto MPP and former Greenpeace head introduced Bill 21 Monday at Queen’s Park, legislation that would  pave the way for individuals, governments and businesses to sue fossil fuel companies...
Algal bloom on Lake Erie

A roving pack of journalists shake off the rain in a squat, one-story federal building in Oak Harbor, Ohio. Hosting us journalists is a troop from the US Department of Agriculture....
An Ominous Fog title image

The blooms returned in 2002. Many hoped the toxic sludge of algae that blanketed the western and central basins of Lake Erie was gone for good, yet the volume of...
Federal Election

Banking heavily on a belief that you and I are preoccupied with fighting climate change, the front-runners in the federal election have anchored their environmental platforms to the way in...
Plastic particle counts in the Great Lakes

CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR Sherri Mason made a splash in 2012 when she and a crew of 20 graduate students from the State University of New York at Fredonia set sail on...
Plastic pop bottle on a beach in Costa Rica

Pointing to PollutersUSA After a three-and-a-half-year study, researchers at the University of Georgia determined that between 4.8 and 12.7 million tonnes of plastic trash flowed into the world’s oceans in 2010...
talkingpoints

This page is available as a shareable, printable PDFIt’s election year in Canada! Get ready for media ads, plastic lawn signs, telephone polls and door knockers! But before those party...
Invasive silver carp in Chain Lake

This is an excerpt of the cover story from A\J's Water issue. Subscribe or order the issue now for this and more great stories on fresh- and salt-water initiatives that are making waves and...

Authors Blog

A railroad crossing in Rouge Park
A survey of candidates in 16 Greater Toronto Area ridings last week revealed the New Democrats, Liberals and Greens are overwhelmingly in favour of improving the weak Rouge National Urban...
Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most Powerful
On a muggy Autumn night in Toronto last week, award-winning environmental writer (and long-time A/J columnist) Andrew Nikiforuk explained to two dozen people at the Gladstone Hotel the root of...
Elizabeth May, leader of the Green Party of Canada \ Wikimedia CC BY-SA 2.5
Elizabeth May \ Green Party of Canada Elizabeth May \ Green Party of Canadavia Wikimedia CC-BY-SA 2.5The success rate of private member's bills in the federal parliament is abysmal. In the...
(Photo: Queen's Park, Toronto, Ontario)
A private member’s bill from Toronto-area NDP MPP Peter Tabuns to ban fracking in the province passed second reading Thursday by a 29-18 vote with support from the governing Liberals.“Water...
(Photo: a group of people waiting at a bus stop)
Waiting for the bus one morning on your way to work, you realize your reusable travel mug is at home. You’d rather not use another single-use plastic cup, but if...
Garbage in Nature | Photo © nonameman \ Fotolia.com
Should the financial burden of removing all plastic debris from the Great Lakes fall on the shoulders of the 36 million people within the basin, researchers now have an estimate...
Toronto's waterfront
The latest study from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and the University of Toronto analyzed government data on mercury, dioxin/furans and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in local...
Marine litter. One winters worth. Lots of fishing gear.
Roughly 9.1 million tonnes of plastic waste will head from land to sea this year alone in 192 coastal countries worldwide. Roughly 9.1 million tonnes of plastic waste will head...
Blanding's Turtle
Lawyers acting on behalf of the Ontario government told the courts last month that Ontario’s endangered species legislation is now only concerned with the most dire of species listed under...
Antarctic Ice Shelf Loss
We know sea levels are rising as climate change causes glaciers to melt. But it turns out rising seas may not be the only catastrophic by-product of glacier melt we...