Canada's Environmental Voice
KITCHENER, September 2020 Today, Alternatives Journal is releasing our latest issue, INVEST IN CHANGE. Over the last decade, the supply and demand for climate conscious investment has seen tremendous growth. Investors are now considering environmental, social, and corporate governance scores (ESG) when making investment decisions. Millions of dollars in private […]
Do I want it? Yes please, give me all of that green But do I need it? How else will I pay off my debt? Does it matter? All I’ve been doing is simply trying to get by Oh no Turns out the work is just work, No one cares […]
Full disclosure: I love my green job at the Project Learning Tree Canada – an initiative of SFI. Every day, I have the privilege of working alongside a creative, diverse, passionate and collaborative team of professionals—each deeply committed to a common vision of providing every young person with the resources, […]
Walking on Thin Ice SOURCE: Pixabay When we think of the species that will be most affected by climate change, our mind often goes to the polar bear. Through aggressive marketing tactics by companies attempting to pose as “do-gooders”, the polar bear has been painted as the poster child of […]
Life’s most impactful moments sometimes come in the simplest of packages and in the most unexpected places. This moment for me came in the form of a single word in the middle of a forest, 650km north of Thunder Bay. It was my first Green Job – a co-op placement […]
Epic Fail Source: Pixabay Ten years ago, 196 countries gathered in Japan to attend the Convention on Biological Diversity. The meeting resulted in a ten year-plan to save our planet’s natural biodiversity through various targets to meet by 2020. Well, its 2020. How have we done? According to the United Nations’ Global Biodiversity […]
“The right to land and to self-government. The right to self-determination. Those causes are right in any society.” Being Métis, that statement by Jim Sinclair to the 1987 First Ministers’ Conference often plays in my mind. Self-determination—the ability to freely pursue one’s own destiny—is a basic human right. It is enshrined […]
Is it a boy? is it a girl? – No it’s a wildfire California first responders are battling an inferno cause caused by a pyrotechnics device used for a gender reveal party. Over 13,500 acres of land is up in a blaze due to the rising popularity of these gender reveal parties. […]
Welcome to Trash Talk, This is a safe space to spill all the dirt, all the trashiest stories, and the confessions of the environmental world that we come across and may not want to speak about. Confessions of a Waste Auditor – Part 1 The Wrong Type of Green – […]
It is my belief the moment you become attuned to the sickly sweet smell of warm trash stewing under a hot sun, you may, with confidence, consider oneself a graduate from ‘novince waste auditor’ to ’employee officially desensitized to the horrors of the waste industry. I, to my overwhelming lack […]
