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3rd Annual Art & Media Issue Available for Pre-Order

Our third annual Art & Media issue is being printed right now and we’re offering it as a free bonus issue to all new subscribers until July 1st! The issue delves into video games, television, hand-held electronics and other personal technology in search of latent environmental messages and opportunities to turn technology […]

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NIGHTSHIFT 2013 Video & 2014 Announcement

The official NIGHT\SHIFT 2013 video has finally arrived! Watch it right here – then put your creativity cap on, because a NIGHT\SHIFT 2014 call for proposals is coming soon! That’s right: after all your enthusiastic feedback – and, frankly, demands for an annual event – A\J is very excited to […]

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Editorial: Dark Matters

THERE’S A NOCTURAL SPECTACLE that I can’t recall seeing in the flesh before I moved to Kitchener, Ontario, a couple of winters ago. I’d take post-work walks to gawk at the bruised sky at dusk, and often as darkness fell I’d stumble across an enormous murder of crows. Thousands of them […]

Aurora Borealis. Solar flares. A\J.

Sneak Peek: AJ Goes Bump in the Night

From the northern lights to light pollution, the Night issue investigates ideas that resonate most deeply in the dark. In this issue, cultural historian Giles Slade looks at the cosmic activity behind the northern lights (which hit the peak of their 11-year cycle this fall) and discovers that North America’s energy […]

Pandora's Promise film review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Pandora’s Promise

This sleek, assertive documentary hinges on two crucial but highly controversial premises. The first is that nuclear power has been distorted by the long shadow of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and the justifiable fear and panic that followed disasters at Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima.

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Greenbelts Sneak Peek!

We’re offering up a preview of our Greenbelts issue, coming out in March. In this issue, we tell the stories of greenbelts around the world, including the 12,500-km pan-European pathway along the former iron curtain, home to this gorgeous Balkan lynx.

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February Fun at AJ

The first half of February has been quite eventful here at A\J. We ushered in the month with the Guelph Organic Conference, where we met a lot of great people and sampled tasty organic treats. Not to mention learning valuable lessons on bringing organic food to more tables.