A\J @ the 2017 Green Living Show
Alternatives Journal (A\J) is a proud media sponsor of the 2017 Green Living Show - and we're excited about all the ideas and inspiration that arise when you bring together many of Canada's greenest...
View ArticleJulia Goes Eco!
Former A\J intern, Julia Galbenu, is no shrinking violet when it comes to learning to live a more sustainable lifestyle. And being a savvy communicator, Julia has taken A\J readers along on some of her...
View ArticleFreedom to (dis)Engage: The Catch-22 of Local Economic Development
The ‘small is beautiful’ vision of local, artisanal, green production for need has been a recurring feature of Romantic counterculture for two centuries. But for most of this time, community production...
View ArticleCould 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...
View ArticleGo to Hillside!
Go to Hillside! is the only way to encourage first timers to go to take in the Guelph music festival. One can only marvel at the community Hillside has built over the past 30 plus years.Yet it’s not...
View ArticleA Hillside Family Weekend
It’s just not the same without a family weekend at Hillside Music Festival at Guelph Lake. I've been going since my small business was in its infancy: in 2006, my husband and I would set up a tent and...
View ArticleThe Healthy Side of Hillside
“Happy Hillside!” I heard this very specific well-wish ring out a thousand times last weekend. I was attending Hillside, the eclectic, diverse music festival held annually in Guelph, Ontario. The...
View ArticleClothing rental could be the key to a stylishly sustainable fashion industry
A staggering 235 million items of unwanted clothing were forecast to be dumped in UK landfill in 2017, while the average American is estimated to bin 81 pounds (37kg) of used clothing annually....
View ArticleTrump should wage a war on waste instead of battling the world over trade
President Donald Trump is fighting the wrong fight in his ongoing trade war with the rest of the world.That’s because it’s premised on the old-school notion of the linear economy in which someone in...
View ArticlePowering the north
The MoCreebec Eeyoud Council, an association representing the MoCreebec people of northern Ontario, is taking charge of their power consumption. And aided by a team of researchers from Carleton...
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