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I started calling myself a “conservation journalist” on September 1st of 2014, not because anyone hired me or because the market was hungry for stories on climate change or species-at-risk, but because a bird named Martha died in a cage exactly 100 years before, and no one seemed to give […]
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Raising Climate Literacy by Kerstyn Lutz Buchholz, K. (2020, July). 2020 is predicted to be the hottest year on record, according to NASA. Retrieved November 05, 2020, from https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/07/earth-climate-change-nasa/ NOAA Climate. (2009). What is Climate Science Literacy? Retrieved November 05, 2020, from https://www.climate.gov/teaching/essential-principles-climate-literacy/whatclimate-science-literacy UNESCO. (2018, December 10). Climate Change Education […]
Should we have been that surprised? I am supposed to be writing about the great wealth and depth of editorial content that was created (and can be found online) for AlternativesJournal.ca. But when we started 2020, the idea that EVERYBODY would be moving ‘off-line’ and locking down was beyond abstract; […]
As the end of 2020 comes to a close (we made it!), I have noticed many have taken the time to reflect on the environmental wins and losses of the year. While some believe the environment has been cast to the side and a forgotten cause, some claim we have […]
OPERATION ENVIRONMENT, coming to a mailbox near you in January 2021! At Alternatives Journal, we are ecstatic to announce that at the end of this December, we will be releasing our final issue of 2020, “Operation Environment”. At A\J, we have a hard working, dedicated staff which has allowed us […]
We can communicate with Kangaroos? Source: Unsplash If Australia isn’t always surprising us with cool new animals news, a study now finds that kangaroos are able to intentionally communicate with humans. 16 Kangaroos who have been socialized around humans and used to human presence from different wildlife parks, and participated in an interesting […]
The last time I wrote about GreenPAC and environmental politics (see story here), I discussed the relationship between protesting and voting, and how youth engagement in the political sphere would be pivotal in putting environmentally informed politicians in office. To repeat my point just one more time (sorry), if you […]
Alternatives Journal (A\J), Canada’s most-respected environmental media organization, is preparing to commemorate our 50th anniversary in 2021 – and we’ve scheduled an exciting array of issue themes to help us learn, grow and celebrate…. together! Because our work is your work, our stories are your stories, and our successes (and […]
A small price to pay? Lithium, a silver-white alkali metal, is a key component in electric vehicles (EV) rechargeable batteries. And while EV’s have been named “the eco-alternatives to cars” some are claiming that the quest to find and extract lithium ultimately causes just as much environmental damage as their […]
