Canada's Environmental Voice
Allan Chochinov is the chair and co-founder of the groundbreaking new Master of Fine Arts in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts in New York. The two-year degree program was launched this past September, and features classes at leading design firms IDEO and Material ConneXion. The curriculum’s […]
Students from the Sustainable New Construction certificate program and instructors from the Endeavour Centre, an incorporated non-profit have attempted to build Canada’s most sustainable home in Peterborough, Ontario.
Re-published from Green Living Online. They are the next generation of thinkers, teachers, politicians, scientists, activists and environmentalists. People under 25 make up almost half of humankind – three billion people who, for the most part, have little say in political affairs, yet it’s their future that’s at stake.
The 13th annual Planet in Focus film film festival in mid-October provided an unbeatable spot to sit and absorb some of the planet’s most pressing ecological stories. And because its 35 screenings and other programming (ranging from industry events to a fabulous Q&A with Ed Burtynsky, Jennifer Baichwal and Nicholas […]
Check out a large-scale version of the map (pdf). EDUCATION FORMS THE BEDROCK of society’s development. Strong correlations exist between education and everything from global health to economic prosperity to gender equality. The more investment in human capital, the greater leaps a society can make.
IT WAS TOO MUCH of a challenge for some of our board members and staff to select the title of only one environmental classic that most influenced them, as well as only one contemporary book they would highly recommend. In fact, Marcia Ruby, Alternatives’ long-time production co-ordinator, chose to do […]
CANADIAN BOOK-BUYING choices changed direction in 2008. In our informal survey of independent bookstores across the country, we learned that sales of environmental books weren’t down like the stock market, but they were different from last year.
THE LANGUOROUS DOG DAYS of summer are upon me as I write this editorial. Tonight, Sirius, the canine star, will light up the sky. But I can’t ignore the slightly burnt aroma of autumn that already tinges the still afternoon air.
A RADICAL TRANSFORMATION of education would develop an ecologically literate society – one that understands the principles of ecological systems and uses them to design human systems.
I ATTENDED Belfountain Public School from Grade 1 to 8. With four classrooms and a gymnasium, it was a considerable step up from the one-room schoolhouses where my older siblings learned their three Rs. Nonetheless, a product of educational wisdom in 1960s Ontario, the schoolyard was devoid of vegetation and we […]
