Let’s go back to 2013 when our provincial government,
in partnership with numerous stakeholders, created the Parks and Protected
Areas Plan. It was an inspired document, identifying huge tracts of land which
were ripe for formal protection either as wilderness...
Nature means many things to many people, some of us
drawn to the cascading rhythm of beaches or rocky shorelines, others to the
quiet dignity of ancient forests, others still to public gardens and the
ornateness of urban green space.
The harm we’ve done our atmosphere is one of the most
thoroughly studied phenomena in human history, the subject of international
scientific inquiry and consensus for decades now.
The same ironclad scientific methodology which allowed
us to...
I knew it was coming… the sudden darkness and interior
silence which marks the loss of power.
I filled my bath tub and several containers with
drinking water, gathered firewood and prepared a store of canned...
In the space of a few years around 2010 something
wonderful happened, permanently altering our electrical landscape and bringing
a sustainable future within the grasp of even us humble Maritimers.
I’m talking about solar power, the...
There is only one population of North Atlantic Right
whales left on Earth, and it can be found off our coastline every summer,
building the fat stores necessary for a southern winter. Were fate kinder,
their skin would be a...
The Pilikan House is a living lab on the Middleton
campus of the Nova Scotia Community College (NSCC), designed and equipped to
produce as much energy as it in turn consumes, championing what the science
folk call net-zero housing. I...
A few weeks ago, I took to the Bay of Fundy, catching a
boat from Grand Manan Island to our oceanic border with the United States. In
these hotly contested waters can be found a small stretch of land,...
I first became aware of climate change in
2004 when, in my teen years, comedian Rick Mercer jumped on my television to
promote the One Tonne Challenge, an imperfect attempt by our federal government
to place the burden of decarbonization...
The Migratory
Bird Convention Act (MBCA) is a fine piece of legislation, stipulating in no
uncertain terms than an exhaustive list of our native birds - chiefly those who
come and go with the seasons - cannot be legally killed,...