Author Archives: Aleksandar Janicijevic

Along Ecological Lines

Our economic system and our planetary system are now at war. Or, more accurately, our economy is at war with many forms of life on earth, including human life. What the climate needs to avoid collapse is a contraction in humanity’s use of resources; what our economic model demands to avoid collapse is unfettered expansion. […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on October 8, 2024

Harbourfront, Toronto, September 19, 2024

Harbourfront, Toronto, September 19, 2024 – NO COMMENT! Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on September 19, 2024

University funding from fossil fuels slowing switch to green energy

Fossil fuel companies’ funding of universities’ climate-focused efforts is delaying the green transition, according to the most extensive peer-reviewed study to date of the industry’s influence on academia. For the study, published in the journal WIREs Climate Change on Thursday, six researchers pored over thousands of academic articles on industries’ funding of research from the past […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on September 8, 2024

Climate Change Mitigation in Architecture and Design

At Human/Nature, architects, landscape architects, designers and more will find insight into effective ways for integrating climate-conscious design thinking into their own practices. Students and educators will learn how their work could be aligned to mitigation, adaptation and combatting climate change. Business leaders will see how major industry players are achieving carbon neutrality. City planners […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on August 29, 2024

The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon

Not only is black carbon terrible for human health, but ever-fiercer wildfires are covering the Arctic with the dark particles, accelerating melting. Once again, vast expanses of Canadian wilderness are on fire, threatening towns and forcing thousands to flee. It appears to be a breakout of “zombie fires”: wildfires from last year that never actually […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on August 18, 2024

A Complete Guide to Scrap Metal Recycling

Scrap metal recycling is the process of taking metal that is the byproduct of various industries and products at the end of its life. These include offcuts from manufacturing as well as old cars and appliances. They are then melted again to produce the raw material for a wide range of processes and uses. Metal […]

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on July 30, 2024

Celebrating Water Watchers

Join us for a ‘lunch & learn’ with Water Watchers and Water Activist Maude Barlow. We will celebrate Water Watchers becoming the newest Blue Community and learn how to use this incredible tool in the movement towards Water Justice. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on July 25, 2024

Protecting just 1.2% of Earth’s land could save most-threatened species

Study identifies 16,825 sites around the world where prioritising conservation would prevent extinction of thousands of unique species. Protecting just 1.2% of the Earth’s surface for nature would be enough to prevent the extinction of the world’s most threatened species, according to a new study. Spread the word

Posted by Aleksandar Janicijevic on June 28, 2024