Climate Change

The Walrus Talks

The Walrus Talks Energy at GLOBE 2020

February 12, 2020February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

Canada’s role in the global energy transition

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Environment

The World’s Last Rainforests Are Under Threat

February 5, 2020March 26, 2020 - by Jimmy Thomson

A $25 million carbon-offset project is struggling to find buyers, and the Great Bear Rainforest is on the line

Jason Kenney speaks at a conference in November 2019.

Politics

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

January 14, 2020March 6, 2020 - by Max Fawcett

The province’s failure to consider climate risk may lose it billions in global investment

Books / January/February 2020

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession with the End of the World

January 9, 2020October 8, 2020 - by Damian Tarnopolsky

We already have plenty of stories about the apocalypse. Now, we need ones that imagine new futures

An aerial shot of a table laden with dishes of food, and several pairs of hands reaching across to serve and eat the food.

Society

A Future without Butter

December 4, 2019March 11, 2021 - by Lenore Newman

Ecological collapse is threatening food systems that have existed for centuries

The Walrus Talks

The Walrus Talks Living Better (Toronto)

November 20, 2019February 4, 2022 - by The Walrus Staff

The adaptations and innovations that fuel life and resilience

A series of construction workers building a high-rise as the building and a nearby car emit large clouds of black smoke

Environment / November 2019

The False Promise of Green Housing

November 6, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Viviane Fairbank

One designer is challenging the conventional wisdom about environmentally friendly construction

Environment / November 2019

We’re Doomed. Now What?

November 4, 2019March 29, 2021 - by Chris Turner

An optimist’s guide to the climate crisis

Environment / October 2019

What to Read When the World is On Fire

September 23, 2019March 27, 2020 - by Arno Kopecky

The new wave of climate change writing

Environment / November 2018

People vs the Planet

October 15, 2018April 22, 2020 - by Edward Burtynsky

In the Anthropocene, the argument that deforestation’s economic benefits overrule its environmental impact no longer holds weight

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The World’s Last Rainforests Are Under Threat

What Jason Kenney’s War Room Is Costing Alberta

Climate Fiction’s Unhelpful Obsession with the End of the World

A Future without Butter

The False Promise of Green Housing

We’re Doomed. Now What?

What to Read When the World is On Fire

People vs the Planet

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