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Restoring Forests
What do these forests make you feel? They are profoundly solemn yet upliftingly joyous... How absolutely full of truth they are, how full of reality. The juice and essence of life are in them; they...
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Toronto Fish Health Improving – But You Can't Eat Them Yet
The latest study from the Ontario Ministry of the Environment and Climate Change and the University of Toronto analyzed government data on mercury, dioxin/furans and polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) in...
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Bison: The Original Climate Change Activists
Originally published on Stephen Bocking's blog Environment, History, Science.There's a lot that can be said about the relations between environmental history and science. Historians often use...
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Research Digest: Focus on Ocean Plastic
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...
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Beads Befoul 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 the Great Lakes in search of plastic....
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!
EACH WEEK, A\J staffers will be sharing our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this...
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week – Arbor Day Edition!
EACH WEEK, A\J staffers share our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this week.read more
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Endangered Perspective: The Alarming Case of the Atlantic Puffin
There’s perhaps no seabird more iconic to the Maritimes than the Atlantic puffin, a bird as modest and beautiful as the region itself.read more
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Endangered Perspective: Homecoming of the Pine Marten
The pine marten is an adorable creature, with fur softer than any pillow and a personality not unlike that of an inquisitive cat. I know this because I had the pleasure of meeting one a few weeks back,...
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Endangered Perspective: The Famine of the Lynx
Feast or famine, as the old saying goes. We either have too much or too little, never just what we need. This is doubly true of the Canadian lynx.read more
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!
EACH WEEK, A\J staffers share our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this week!read more
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The Best Things Ever of All Time, This Week!
EACH WEEK, A\J staffers share our favourite facts & findings from whatever books, articles, documentaries, podcasts and other media we've been consuming. Here’s what we’ve learned this week!read more
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Endangered Perspective: The Elusive Wildcat
The eastern cougar is the only 7 foot long, 200 pound wildcat that may or may not be living in your backyard.read more
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The Back of the Turtle
A conversation between two characters highlights the main concerns in Thomas King’s new novel: the destruction of the environment and the stories told about these catastrophes. In response to Gabriel’s...
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DamNation
Free the river and the salmon come back. It seems so improbable – impossible! – and yet. DamNation captures the relentless beating pulse of thousands of salmon returning against all odds to Washington...
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How We Met Our Mother: An Exclusive Interview With the Earth
Throughout our near-45-year existence, Alternatives Journal has published countless interviews about the Earth, but sadly none of them with the Earth. Better late than never, we say, and on a lovely...
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Demystifying Sustainability: Towards Real Solutions
In their endorsement of Demystifying Sustainability, Paul and Anne Ehrlich state, “Sustainability may be the most important … and most misused word in our language. This brilliant, deep, accurate,...
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Harvesting Community Pride
In the Downtown Eastside (DTES) of Vancouver, a community is buzzing. Hives for Humanity is a non-profit organization based in Vancouver. They work to enhance the communities where their bee hives...
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Toronto Island Living: November Glow
As a recent transplant to Toronto Island, Jonathan Rotsztain will be documenting his first winter in this unique environment through interviews with seasoned Islanders.I've been living on the Toronto...
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Whales and Climate Change
The Mingan Island Cetacean Study was founded in 1979 on the northern shore of the St Lawrence Gulf, a semi-enclosed sea bordered by all four Maritime provinces and the far reaches of eastern Quebec....
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