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Editorial: Back to Simplicity
Look down at the clothes you have on right now. I’ll give you 10 points if you can tell me where each item was manufactured – and don’t forget your socks and undergarments. Ten more points if you know...
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How the Fashion Industry is Picking Up the Threads After Rana Plaza
We can’t get enough fast fashion. Globally, we consume more than 80 billion pieces of clothing each year, many of them hyper-trendy, low-cost items that move from runway to sale rack at breakneck...
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Sustainability in Style
When I start a new semester of teaching, I don a t-shirt that has one word on the front: “unlearn.” The word is printed from right to left, so that it only becomes clear when you look in the mirror. On...
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Strut Lightly: 17 Simple Solutions for Reducing your Fashion Footprint
Think back to the old folk tale “The Little Red Hen.” In the tale, the red hen’s friends sit idly while she grows the wheat to get the grain to make the flour that eventually makes the bread – that, of...
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A Better Kind of Green Washing
If you are the type of person who wants to be an ethical, sustainable dresser, you probably make efforts to buy clothes that are made in fair labour conditions from fibres that are farmed and...
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Swap Before You Shop
Much of the advice out there for reducing your fashion footprint involves buying more sustainably made (and often expensive) clothes. But there are a number of ways – many of which we explore in our...
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Why Sustainable Clothing Costs More
A\J’s Fashion issue explores the social and ecological impacts of “fast fashion.” In “Picking Up the Threads,” Kelly Drennan of Fashion Takes Action explains how low prices and über-trendiness come at...
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Why Living Local Matters
Are you up for a challenge? LiveLocalKW, a weeklong event, challenges you and others living in the Region of Waterloo to eat, shop and play local from September 13-19. Kitchener-Waterloo businesses are...
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Closing The Loop
How many plastic water bottles does it take to create a back-to-school kit? According to R3VOLVED, the magic number is 7.25. This Toronto-based company specializes in school, home and office supplies...
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Sharing Volkswagen’s Blame
Volkswagen's managers, its market value and its global reputation have all taken a big hit since it was revealed that 11 million of the company's 'clean diesel' cars were actually polluting up to 40...
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Me and Meat: Vegetarianism and other diets
Me and Meat is a blog series that hopes to inspire people to rethink their diets as I share the stories, struggles and successes of becoming a vegetarian. read more
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Murphy's Flaw
Writing in the National Post, Rex Murphy recently took aim at the UN climate conference and the environmentalists, political leaders and business people who will travel to Paris this month to attend...
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The Missing Pieces in Canada’s Climate Change Mitigation Plan
The Paris climate talks have come to an end, and a historic agreement has been reached. In Canada, environmentalists have breathed a deep sigh of relief as the federal and provincial governments have...
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Carpooling VW's Blame
VOLKSWAGEN’S MANAGERS, its market value and its global reputation have all taken a big hit since it was revealed that 11 million of the company’s “clean diesel” cars were actually polluting up to 40...
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Week in Review
Sweden has just started running tests for an 'electrical highway'. The innovation hooks transport trucks up to an overhead series of wires that will power it as the vehicle moves along the highway. The...
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No Sale!
(With files from Jack Parkinson and Veronika Szostak) Water is the driver of Nature.- Leonardo da Vinciread more
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The Environmental Impact of Economic Activity: A Multidisciplinary View
The pin factory, about which Adam Smith wrote in 1776, has served since then as an admirable example of the gains in productivity to be had from the division of labour. Although Smith was not writing...
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Can’t Buy Me Bugs: A New Age of Negotiation
No amount of money can compensate for millions of dead insect species. Money can’t buy me love, pollination, honey, food, and complex, dynamic relationships among insects, plants, soil, greenhouse...
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Could your house hold carbon?
Rammed earth. Earthship. Light clay straw. These terms may sound new age and unfamiliar, but they are par for the course at the Ontario Natural Building Coalition’s annual Natural Buildings Tour. The...
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We've Outgrown Growth
If economic growth is an unmixed blessing, why would there be a need to talk about inclusive, green, clean, smart, responsible, or sustainable growth?In my research, I’ve asked the question: can we in...
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