Eric Rumble

Eric is the founder and executive director of Night\Shift, downtown Kitchener's nocturnal adventure festival, and he helped craft the rebranding of A\J as its editor-in-chief (2012-2014). He has a dusty Bachelor of History from uWaterloo and has worked as a journalist in Canada since 2000, holding editing positions with up! Magazine (WestJet Airlines’ in-flight publication), Adbusters, Reader’s Digest and other publications, and contributing as a writer to Canadian Geographic, Maisonneuve, Canada’s History, Swerve, Saturday Night and others. He also used to curate a blog about great Canadian record cover art at lpwtf.tumblr.com.

 

Articles

Mike Morrice and Priyanka Lloyd from the Sustainability CoLab.
Change Agents
Apr 2014 | IN Sharing 40.2 | BY Eric Rumble
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A network-building movement is making a no-brainer business case for cutting GHGs.
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Mike Morrice and Priyanka Lloyd from the Sustainability CoLab.
Change Agents (Videos)
Apr 2014 | IN Sharing 40.2 | BY Eric Rumble
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Exclusive interviews with the people behind Sustainability CoLab and two of Waterloo Region's leading Regional Carbon Initiative members.
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How to See Things
May 2013 | IN Art & Media 39.3 | BY Eric Rumble
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Lessons in perception from five documentary filmmakers + an exclusive video message from Rainforest creator Richard Boyce.
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Blogs

We Blew It
Oct 29 2012 | IN Renewables | BY Eric Rumble
A\J's editor on the backlash to Andrew Nikiforuk's recent column about wind energy's limitations.
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Reviews

Pandora's Promise
Jun 20 2013 | IN Solar | REVIEWED BY Eric Rumble
A controversial pro-nuclear documentary aims to reframe America’s complicated relationship with nuclear development.
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Lost Rivers
Mar 14 2013 | IN Adaptation | REVIEWED BY Eric Rumble
Caroline Bâcle’s film plunges into the past, present and future of waterways beneath cities around the world.
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As Above, So Below
Jan 03 2013 | IN Adaptation | REVIEWED BY Eric Rumble
Sarah J. Christman’s newest documentary explores how matter is reshaped by energy.
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Chasing Ice
Sep 19 2012 | IN Climate Change | REVIEWED BY Eric Rumble
This quietly jarring documentary about National Geographic photographer James Balog’s work explores the challenge of bringing climate change into focus.
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This Soil, This Water book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca
This Soil, This Water
Jul 09 2012 | IN Health | REVIEWED BY Eric Rumble
This Ed Schleimer and Susan Hodges Bryant collaboration tackles an ecological controversy that has continued to percolate for more than two decades: the Walkerton, Ontario, E. coli water crisis.
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