The Coast’s Sustainable City columnist Chris Benjamin doesn’t just talk the talk, you know. Benjamin launches his second book Eco-Innovators: Sustainability in Atlantic Canada on Tuesday, October 11 (7pm, McCain Building, 6135 University). Eco-Innovators is a collection of stories about Nova Scotia’s sustainability leaders. Benjamin compiled stories from “entrepreneurs and educators, activists and agitators, farmers […]
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Chris Benjamin makes Canada Reads longlist
I was hopeful that books might actually stay off of the Idol voting lame-train, but no such luck. But then I thought about it again, and realized that anything that gets people talking about Canadian authors, and draws attention to lesser-known names (AKA un-Atwood) is actually a good thing, especially when it involves one of […]
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More Jobs Per Green Buck
In October I went to a presentation by a senior economist from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives in British Columbia. He came equipped with a hard drive’s worth of percentages and demographic comparisons. Two of his stats have stayed with me all these months. One: Mining, oil and gas extraction, transportation and manufacturing account […]