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The Last Bonobo: A Journey into the Congo
To tell the story of Earth’s last wild bonobos – along with chimpanzees, humankind’s closest genetic relatives – author Deni Béchard travelled to the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the Bonobo...
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The Right to Be Cold: One Woman’s Story of Protecting Her Culture, the Arctic...
Reflecting on a girlhood spent in the Arctic town of Kuujjuaq, Sheila Watt-Cloutier describes herself as “a cautious child who didn’t like taking big risks.” That characterization may seem surprising...
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Can comics inspire the next leap in the way we think about physics, philosophy, or even our everyday lives? That is the question at the heart of Nick Sousanis’s Unflattening, an extended graphic essay...
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Places of the Heart: The Psychogeography of Everyday Life
As anyone who grew up in a generic North American suburb knows all too well, it is possible to hate a place with a passion. So, too, is it possible to love a neighbourhood or find particular city...
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Slick Water: Fracking and One Insider’s Stand Against the World’s Most...
Andrew Nikiforuk is no stranger to environmental controversies. In his new book, the author of Saboteurs: Wiebo Ludwig’s War Against Big Oil and Tar Sands: Dirty Oil and the Future of the Continent...
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Back to the Well: Rethinking the Future of Water
Nova Scotia resident Marq de Villiers won a Governor General’s Literary Award for his 1999 book, Water: The Fate of Our Most Precious Resource, a look at the political, environmental, and cultural uses...
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Alone Against the North: An Expedition into the Unknown
In his recent biography of Roald Amundsen, The Last Viking, Stephen R. Bown describes the Norwegian explorer’s awareness of living at a time when the window for achieving greatness in an expeditionary...
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After the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
Perhaps able to foresee that even the longest federal election campaign in Canadian history would fail to prioritize the serious consequences of climate change, University of Alberta professor emeritus...
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Trees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future
Given the recent news there may be water on Mars, combined with Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Andrew Weir’s novel The Martian, about an astronaut stranded on the red planet, the title of Hal...
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A Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail
Research is paramount to the development and operation of an off-grid, organic small farm. So says Jenna Butler who, along with her partner, Thomas, in 2006 established Larch Grove Farm near Barrhead...
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Naomi Klein is angry. The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, and a self-confessed former climate change skeptic,… Read More »
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We live in an age where the spread of information technology has far outstripped our understanding or control over it.… Read More »
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When an unarmed black teen by the name of Michael Brown was gunned down by police in the Missouri suburb… Read More »
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