Canada's Environmental Voice
AS I WRITE these words, a battle quietly escalates. Two weeks ago in New Brunswick, on the heels of a tone-deaf throne speech in Ottawa, RCMP officers invaded an illegal1 blockade by the Elsipogtog First Nation in protest of shale gas exploration on their land. The pepper spray, rubber bullets, barking […]
It’s an interesting fact that drinking seawater will only make you thirstier, because of all the salt. This is one of several reasons why being lost at sea would be profoundly unpleasant. Of course, if you could find a way to drink the water safely then dying of thirst would […]
Suburban sprawl has defined much of the last half century of North American development. Suburban design and use have changed continuously throughout this period and are still evolving as suburban retrofit projects become ever more common.
This article is part of A\J’s web series Night School. In celebration of back-to-school time and our Night issue, the A\J web team brought you a series of quick lessons, posted between September 16 to October 11, 2013, covering everything from activism tactics and canning tips to how factory farms breed disease.
“What hath night to do with sleep?” proclaimed John Milton in Paradise Lost. Environmental activists, I think, would agree that sleep has very little to do with it because night is not a time for rest but for action. It provides a cloak of invisibility under which they can enact […]
A community in Ontario’s heartland is at the centre of a David vs. Goliath legal fight to protect its water. Since 1988, Nestlé has been withdrawing water from a deep aquifer well in Hillsburgh, Wellington County, Ontario. Currently the company pays only $3.71 for every million litres that it removes […]
A\J is partnering with the Otesha Project to cover two of their 2013 tours: Nation to Nation and Pedal to Plate. This post is from Nation to Nation tour member Arestia Dehmassi – watch the video above for an overview of the tour. Check out A\J’s photo essay from the Pedal to […]
If you grew up watching the Flipper television series in the 1960s or 90s, you probably developed an affinity for charismatic marine mammals. You may have also begged your parents to take you to a marine amusement park to see dolphins and whales “in real life.” This feature documentary shatters […]
The list of things that expectant mothers should avoid is notoriously long: hair dye, unpasteurized cheese and even some herbal teas, to name a few. But according to Pre-Polluted, a new report on the toxic loads of Canadian newborns, our everyday lives are packed with toxins that are difficult for […]
How can we create a society that provides for all while respecting nature’s limits?
