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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

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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

Airplane over Field Pickering A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Residents opposing the Pickering airport have come to expect the unexpected.In their 40-plus years of struggle against a development many feel prioritizes business interests over prime agricultural farmland, the story...
nuclear hot spots map great lakes A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Ontarians may have no idea of the volume of nuclear-related facilities in the Great Lakes basin, but a new map offers a clear picture. The Great Lakes Nuclear Hot Spots...
Asian Carp A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
It could have been worse. When the Department of Fisheries and Oceans announced on May 3 that a Grass carp caught in the Grand River near Lake Erie was sterile,...
Enbridge line 9 pipeline marker A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
Federal opposition MPs and environmental groups are crying foul over what they see as the government’s attempt to curtail public comment on Enbridge’s proposed 639-km Line 9 reversal pipeline route...
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Building off the core tenet that few know the environmental challenges occurring in their backyards better than those who witness them daily, the Ontario government has re-launched yet another program...
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In the face of decades of environmental, pollution and development stresses on the shorelines, wetlands, river basins, flora and fauna of the Great Lakes, the government of Ontario realized making...
YIMBYfest
The flow of information and ideas between community residents and policy makers is often a one-way street. When someone tries to flip that idea on its head, it seems almost...
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The crown jewel of Ontario’s provincial park system is being recognized for hitting a crucial milestone not often associated with our parks system: removing garbage.With approximately one million visitors flocking...
Ontario Forest © Christopher Meder - Fotolia
Ontario’s Crown forests are expected to remain a net source of carbon emissions for the next three decades, according to the latest forestry report from the Ministry of Natural Resources....
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It’s a new beginning for Ontario’s 1.8 million acre Greenbelt.On January 10, Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty was in Newmarket to announce a significant new designation to Greenbelt legislation, which will...