Life is a highway
Anna Heslop (Photo courtesy Anna Heslop)
I learned about Anna Heslop though an email from a colleague that contained a link to her blog and a subject line that implied a potential story. The description in the message was brief — she was biking across Canada and fundraising for NCC...
Sarah and Scott TRI To Keep it WILD in Dartmouth
Scott McClennan, Sarah McClennan and Michael Ayerst pose together at the finish line (Photo courtesy of Sarah McClennan)
Sarah McClennan is a full-time emergency physician in Mississauga, ON and a mother to two boys, ages four and seven. On June 29, she completed the completed the Dartmouth Triathlon with her brother Scott. Their team was named TRI To Keep it WILD...
Rewilding Canada: An interview with J.B. MacKinnon (Part 2)
JB MacKinnon
In 2005, JB MacKinnon and his partner Alisa Smith embarked on a year long journey to feed themselves exclusively from locally-sourced foods. Their experiment gave birth to the 100 Mile Diet concept, which was popularized in their book that...
Rewilding Canada: An interview with J.B. MacKinnon
JB MacKinnon
In 2005, JB MacKinnon and his partner Alisa Smith embarked on a year long journey to feed themselves exclusively from locally-sourced foods. Their experiment gave birth to the 100 Mile Diet concept, which was popularized in their book that...
Telling great green stories: An interview with Silver Donald Cameron
The Green Interview
Veteran journalist and writer Silver Donald Cameron (Don) is one of Canada's most versatile and experienced professional authors. His work includes plays, films, radio and TV scripts, corporate and governmental writing, hundreds of magazine...
Balancing screen time with sunshine: A Q&A with Take Me Outside founder Colin Harris
Students, Banff Elementary (Photo courtesy of Take Me Outside's official Facebook page)
Calling in from the comfort of his home in Canmore, Alberta with his four-legged friend at his feet, Colin Harris, executive director and founder of the Take Me Outside (TMO) organization, spoke with NCC-staffer Carly Digweed about getting...
Zoo Revolution: A Q&A with documentary filmmaker Geoff D'Eon
Zoo Revolution cameraman Wade Cornell gets a shot of the action at Zoo Miami (Photo by Geoff D'Eon)
Zoos have often been the source of passionate debate and controversy among animal lovers and conservationists, many of whom argue that animals should not be kept in cages, that this environment does not lead to a respect for animals, that...
An interview with Bruce Kirkby: The call to conserve Canada’s last frontiers
Bruce Kirkby (Photo courtesy of Bruce Kirkby)
Bruce Kirkby is a writer, photographer, traveler and adventurer. As a columnist for The Globe and Mail, contributor to Canadian Geographic and the New York Times and author of two books (Sand Dance and Dolphin’s Tooth), Bruce’s...
