Planning

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, a key proponent of a New Green Deal

The Green New Deal: Our Best Chance on Climate

Dec 1969 | IN | BY Robert Paehlke

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The 'Green New Deal' addresses today’s two most urgent problems simultaneously: climate change and rising inequality.

Jill Pelto’s Landscape of Change uses data about sea level rise, glacier volume

The Long Emergency

Mar 20 2019 | IN Technology | BY Robert Paehlke

Climate action is profoundly urgent precisely because sufficient change is inevitably slow

The flags of Canada, Nunavut and Cambridge Bay / photo by / Don Halffield

The Nunavut Land Claims Agreement and Arctic Governance

Feb 11 2019 | IN Research | BY A\J Staff

New report calls for more youth and elder representation on territory boards

Why We Walk

Feb 06 2019 | IN Water | BY Mary Anne Caibaiosai

Nga zhichige Nibi onji – We do it for the water.

Edging Forward. Ann Dale, Fernweh Press, 2018.

Edging Forward: Achieving Sustainable Community Development

Dec 07 2018 | IN Resilience | REVIEWED BY Sabrina M. Chiefari

Keeping the wheel turning in the drive towards sustainability.

The 2015-2017 Jane Glassco Northern Fellows. Deline, NWT/Photo by Pat Kane

Northern voices driving northern policy

Nov 30 2018 | IN Planning | BY A\J Staff

Using smart public policy to build up the North.

Incremental Livable - An A\J Q & A with Gordon Harris

Nov 12 2018 | IN Planning | BY A\J Staff

There's an urban revolution happening atop Burnaby Mountain showing sustainability and profitability do mix.

Pigeons perch on a window ledge. (Jan Mehlich. 2006.) CC BY-SA 3

Where are all the dead pigeons?

Jul 03 2018 | IN Wildlife | BY Steve Portugal

Fewer animals are as at-home in cities as the rock pigeon. Yet while they live among humans worldwide by the tens of millions, where do they go when they die?

Could your house hold carbon?

Jan 11 2018 | IN Technology | BY Kristi Mahy

Sustainable housing doesn't go far enough. It's time for net zero housing: where more carbon is sequestered than released in a finished building.

little clay figurines of people stand on a map

A Sense of Community

Jul 2016 | IN 42.1 Faith, Hope and Charities | BY Semini Pathberiya

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Understanding our ecosystem of environmentalism through a journey of discovery attempting to answer: what is the Canadian environmental community?

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