Connie Nelson is a professor at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, and director of the Food Security Research Network. Her research focuses on building resilient local food systems.

Dean Bavington is a Geography professor at Memorial University in St. John’s, Newfoundland, and the author of Managed Annihilation: An Unnatural History of the Newfoundland Cod Collapse (2010, UBC Press).  

Mike Nagy is a sustainability consultant specializing in eco-certification, traceability and labelling of seafood in Canada and holds a Master of Environmental Studies from Wilfrid Laurier University.

Douglas Macdonald is a senior lecturer in the School of the Environment at the University of Toronto.

Dante Ryel is studying Energy Systems Engineering – Clean and Renewable Energy at Mohawk College and works as a Renewable Energy & Energy Conservation Project Assistant at Environment Hamilton. He is a Co-chair of the System Change not Climate Change group in the Council of Canadians Hamilton Chapter, a member […]

Nathan Einbinder is a graduate student at the University of Northern British Columbia, where he studies human geography, primarily in Guatemala. His research examines the effects from mega-projects, such as mines and dams, on local populations.

Ben is a former A\J editorial intern. He’s currently a freelance writer based in Ottawa. He tells stories about nature, science and policy. 

Ellen Sweeney is a PhD student in the Faculty of Environmental Studies at York University. Her areas of research interest include environmental health, contested illnesses, policy analysis and disease prevention.

Dana is a recent graduate from the Environment and Business program at uWaterloo.

Sara Hart is homeschooling mother of four and owner of Hart Home Daycare in Ottawa, the first daycare in Ontario to be endorsed as Eco-Healthy by the Oregon Environmental Council.