Science, Technology & Environment

Sea Sick: The Hidden Ecological Crisis of the Global Ocean

We call this planet “Earth,” although water covers about 75% of its surface. This discrepancy has undoubtedly influenced the way we have historically regarded the world’s oceans: as seemingly endless dumping grounds and inexhaustible sources ... Read More »

February 18, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Ego Boom: Why the World Really Does Revolve Around You

By Steve Maich and Lianne George

Member of Generation X or Y: get ready for some bad news. You may see yourself as community-minded, the sort of person who’d organize neighbourhood block parties and do volunteer work if you had the ... Read More »

January 26, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Death by Prescription: A Father Takes on His Daughter’s Killer – the Multi-Billion Dollar Pharmaceutical Companies

By Terence H. Young

On the afternoon of March 19, 2000, Vanessa Young, a 15-year-old girl from Oakville, Ontario, suffered a severe reaction to a common drug that she was taking to relieve the stomach discomfort and nausea she ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The Dog by the Cradle, the Serpent Beneath: Some Paradoxes of Human-Animal Relationships

By Erika Ritter

Human nature is a mass of contradiction and ambiguity. We hurt what we profess to love, we kill with kindness, and we deny any culpability. Almost nothing exemplifies our contradictory nature like our relationship with ... Read More »

January 19, 2009 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

By Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver

At a moment in history when longstanding capitalist beliefs about the ability of the free market to self-adjust are being cast into doubt, Montreal-based authors Peter G. Brown and Geoffrey Garver’s new book could not ... Read More »

January 12, 2009 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

The End of The River: Strangling the Rio São Francisco

By Brian Harvey

In the past decade, readers have been bombarded with literary diatribes against clear-cut logging, habitat loss, overfishing, pollution, and species extinctions. Brian Harvey knows we’ve had enough, so in his new book, he lures us ... Read More »

December 11, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Outliers: The Story of Success

By Malcolm Gladwell

Outliers seems, initially, to be an inadvisable pairing of author and subject. Malcolm Gladwell, staff writer for that august cultural magazine, The New Yorker, and author of two exemplary pop-science bestsellers, The Tipping Point and ... Read More »

November 6, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Listening to Trees

By A.K. Hellum

Nostalgic books lamenting the past and the dwindling of our flora and fauna have been thick on the ground recently, and many have been memorable. (Tim Bowling’s The Lost Coast and Terry Glavin’s Waiting for ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Science, Technology & Environment

Bees: Nature’s Little Wonders

By Candace Savage

The latest book by best-selling science writer Candace Savage (Prairie: A Natural History) celebrates bees, arguably the most beloved of all insect groups. We love them, stings and all, for many very good reasons. Bees ... Read More »

October 24, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

Almost Green: How I Built an Eco-Shed, Ditched My SUV, Alienated the In-Laws, and Changed My Life Forever

By James Glave

Bowen Island-based journalist and stay-at- home dad James Glave is on a mission to reduce his environmental footprint and inspire others to do the same. So he embarked on the construction of a 260-square-foot writing ... Read More »

September 29, 2008 | Filed under: Children and YA Non-fiction, Science, Technology & Environment

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