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Oliver Stone just put out a new film promoting nuclear energy, titled Nuclear Now: Time to look again. So, just as he asks, let’s...

As with every fire season in recent memory, we’re being told this one is unprecedented. Fires in Alberta and Nova Scotia are said to be...

I love John Green’s now-finished podcast Anthropocene Reviewed. Love it. It really is everything I want in a podcast. I’ve even been...

You may have heard something about the Sea Star Wasting Disease (SSWD) epidemic that came to the Pacific coast of North America in 2013....

The job would be monitoring a threatened polar bear population. Most of us new recruits were well-educated and comfortable out of doors...

David Suzuki used to have this metaphor he'd use when talking about climate change. He likened the problem and our inaction to a car...

Someone once asked: If I’m not mistaken, you are arguing for humanity banding together to protect ourselves from a plethora of potential...

It's easy to find folks promoting organic. Abundant are claims that organic farming reduces environmental pollutants and greenhouse gas...

Conversations about carbon dioxide and energy have been unavoidable within environmental circles and are increasingly so in the media. In...

Acquaintances of mine share video after video, post after post, and slogan after slogan that, as far as I’m able to discern, rewrite all...

Dear Green Party of Canada, What if you dropped the misinformation, at least for official statements on key platform items. During...

In one of our final courses we were asked for an analysis and reflection of major course projects and themes. Here was mine: The Local...

Somehow polar bears became the symbol of climate change and species extinction. It makes some sense how this creature arrived at it poster child status. Polar bears are distributed all across the most northern regions of the globe and, given that they are the apex predator in this most climate change-impacted region, folks expected these animals to be the first and most visibly suffering. And now countless news reports, environmental campaigns, and viral social media posts te

I just read an article titled “Humans exploiting and destroying nature on unprecedented scale – report.” It’s published on the website of...

Our reading offers us that, "The ability to recover from mass extinctions is strong evidence for Gaia." This idea still strikes me like a...

Intuition came up in several recent school readings and class discussions. I don’t understand this conversation or know where to go with it. At all. Part of the problem, I think, is about definitions. (Though this is probably just Maslow's hammer: my cognitive bias that over-relies upon semantics. To the semantic-hammer, everything seems a word-nail.) What I'm certain of is that our readings never help with a definition. ( It seems you're just supposed to intuit a meaning. ZI

A legend of the environmental world and key author in our introductory readings, David Orr, writes, “...philosophers have agreed with...