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Wendy Mesley (The Journalist)
One of Canada’s premier, award-winning investigative journalists who, throughout her career, has examined a range of critical issues. Since winning her battle with cancer, she has produced a number of ground-breaking shows for CBC’s Marketplace, asking tough questions about the role of toxins in the environment and the potential links with cancer. She always pushes the envelope, not shying away from issues such as the safety of —and the politics behind — pesticides, household cleaners and hormones. Her work may just change how we treat our environment and ourselves. (Photo above.)
His visions of nature have helped define the natural world in Canada. Volunteered to take part in Environmental Defence’s Toxic Nation testing program and found his body contained a range of nasty substances, as did everyone else’s.
In partnership with non-profit Reverb, has been running band transportation on B20 biodiesel, recycling and composting backstage, and offsetting carbon emissions. Uses Forest Stewardship Council-certified paper for album covers. Music can be downloaded from the BNL website or purchased on reusable USB drives to get rid of CDs altogether.
World-renowned fine-art photographer who, for over 25 years, has documented what he calls “nature transformed by industry.” A film of his work, Manufactured Landscapes, was released in 2006.
The lead singer of The Tragically Hip is a trustee of Lake Ontario for the Lake Ontario Waterkeeper organization.
An energy reporter and business columnist for the Toronto Star. Also runs Clean Break, a site dedicated to staying on top of the clean-technology market.
Singer, songwriter and co-founder of Protecting Escarpment Rural Land (PERL) in Burlington, Ont., where she grew up. Featured in the documentary film Escarpment Blues, in which she performs while hiking along the Niagara Escarpment. Read more about Sarah.
Run Corporate Knights magazine. Have been catalysts in creating a clean-energy corridor in Canada, have pushed internationally for Option 13, the global carbon-tax project, and annually release the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World at the World Economic Forum in Davos.
Published his first book, People of the Deer, in 1952, when a university student, outraged at what he saw as exploitation of the Inuit. Went on to write numerous books about the natural world, many of which focused on human beings’ destructive treatment of their environment.
Contributor to the Calgary Herald and a key green voice in the Albertan environmental community.
A lifelong environmentalist and creator of the LongPen, “the world’s first long-distance, real-time, real pen and ink autographing device.” Now there’s no need for writers/speakers to pollute the world by flying to a venue to sign books.
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I just wanted to let you know that I went looking for the Globe and Mail newspaper today (03/17) specifically to buy and get the Green living magazine. I tried 2 places in the "Beach(es)" Toronto and neither location had the magazine inserted in the paper. Hope others were luckier than me.
Cheers,
Janet