Now that world leaders and their negotiators have left Paris following the climate change pow-wow, the focus now shifts to the work needed to make […]
Category: Environment
Dumpster Diving Meets Haute Cuisine at the United Nations
It’s taken decades for dumpster diving to nudge from the fringes to the mainstream. Hell, ten years ago, it wasn’t even the explicit goal of the practice. […]
Our affair with supermarkets
Oh, supermarkets, what are we going to do with you? It seems you’re embroiled in a certain love-hate relationship with many of us. Think of those farmers: they stock […]
Montreal Climate Change March (PHOTOS)
Thousands of Montrealers braved the rains yesterday to speak up about climate change. This was one of many demonstrations held around the world leading up […]
First Nations sidelined for environmental degredation: Van Waarden cont.
For over eight weeks, photographer Robert Van Waarden travelled from Hardisty Alberta to Saint-John New Brunswick in order to talk with and photograph residents living along the projected […]
Along the Pipeline: Robert Van Waarden and photographing Trans Canada’s Energy East
You may have heard of the controversies surrounding the Canada-US Keystone XL pipeline which would bring Alberta’s oil all the way down to the Gulf […]
Petrocultures 2014: Oil Energy or Canada’s Future
This past Thursday and Friday, a wide range of accomplished doers and thinkers gathered for the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada and the University […]
PetroCultures: Canada’s oil and energy debate comes to McGill
This week, the McGill Institute for the Study of Canada is partnering with the University of Alberta to host a two-day conference titled PetroCultures: Oil, […]
Petro-Quebec inc.
This week some political and economic heavyweights (B. Landry, M. Jérôme-Forget, J. Facal among others) came out with a pro-petrol manifesto titled Manifeste pour tirer […]
Consider our water system
Everyone’s favourite evil multi-national corporation, British Petroleum (BP) has been given the green-light to dump large quantities of mercury directly into Lake Michigan, about 20 times over federal limits for the Great Lakes