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Chris Turner

Chris Turner is the author of The Patch: The People, Pipelines, and Politics of the Oil Sands. He is based in Calgary.
Cuban family posing in house
April 2012

On Tipping in Cuba

April 12, 2012December 3, 2019 - by Chris Turner

In which the writer discovers the uncomfortable socio-macroeconomics of the cheap beach vacation

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Video still of Chris Turner from The Walrus Talks The Art of the City
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The Art of Public Space

January 24, 2012November 19, 2019 - by Chris Turner

“Public space is the heart of the city; without it, the city dies”

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Illustration by Scott McKowen
October 2011

The Crisis in Canadian Farming

October 12, 2011August 26, 2021 - by Chris Turner

The growing gap between what they produce and what they earn is driving many farmers off the land

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May 2010

The New Grand Tour

May 12, 2010April 14, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Greetings from twenty-first-century Europe, where new ideas, new technologies, and better ways of living are flourishing

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October 2009

The Age of Breathing Underwater

October 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Environmentalists have long struggled to save Nature from humanity’s negligence — and still we’ve reached the brink of catastrophe. How can we learn to thrive in the climate we’ve created? The answer begins beneath the sea…

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June 2009

An Inconvenient Talk

June 12, 2009April 15, 2020 - by Chris Turner

Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age

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Environment / January/February 2009

Feed-In Frenzy

January 12, 2009July 17, 2019 - by Chris Turner

A simple green tariff has transformed Germany. Why isn’t Canada following suit?

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Arts & Culture / May 2008

The Earthship Has Landed

May 12, 2008October 15, 2019 - by Chris Turner

Michael Reynolds’ quest for sustainable structures

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September 2007

On Strawberry Hill

September 12, 2007October 15, 2019 - by Chris Turner

The hippie exodus to Canada from the United States was not a mass migration, but it was close. Is it time to rethink this period, then and now?

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September 2006 / World

Greening Giant?

September 12, 2006October 16, 2019 - by Chris Turner

A sprawling Indian metropolis spawns an eco-construction trend

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