Environment

I‘m a few minutes late to meet with Tamara Lorincz, but she’s still standing when I arrive at the cafe. “It gave me a chance to put up some posters,” she says. Never a wasted moment. After five years as executive director of the Nova Scotia Environment Network, Lorincz is moving on. The tragic death […]

The upside to cycling in Halifax is that drivers are so scared and confused by bikes, they cut you a wide swath. The con: a lack of infrastructure. Bike lanes are few and scattered, and there’s almost no designated bike parking. When I bike downtown to a meeting and have to wander the block looking […]

The province wants to protect 12 percent of land from road-building and tree- harvesting. So why don’t our oceans get equivalent protection? “The easy answer is that the province doesn’t have jurisdiction,” says Rodrigo Menafra, the marine conservation coordinator for the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society. “But no signs have been given of supporting the […]

“It’s mostly the private sector that has solved problems,” Pam Cooley tells me over breakfast at the Ardmore. Cooley is the marketing half of CarShareHFX. It’s the latest venture in an impressive career of social enterprise—for-profit companies designed for the public good. Cooley has worked to safely return Guatemalan refugees from camps in Mexico, and […]

On April 12 transportation minister Bill Estabrooks announced the second biggest highway capital budget in the province’s history. More than $300 million is going to roads and bridges. This is how we save the economy. In a government press release Grant Feltmate, director of the Nova Scotia Road Builders Association, noted, “In the short term, […]

If Earth Day really mattered, no one would ever consider putting bounties on coyotes. We would compete with them, fair and square, for the food and space we need. Sometimes we would win and sometimes coyotes would win. Killing off your competition would be taboo, the ultimate offence against fair play. If Earth Day really […]