Gareth Lind is a cartoonist and graphic designer. He has contributed to Alternatives for nigh on 20 years. Websites: lindtoons.com \ linddesign.ca.
Gareth Lind is a cartoonist and graphic designer. He has contributed to Alternatives for nigh on 20 years. Websites: lindtoons.com \ linddesign.ca.
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 […]
Emily is former A\J web editor and a graduate of Environmental Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University. Emily is an urban homesteader who tries to live as plastic-free, local and organic as possible, and can be intense about it.
Co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food Systems Roundtable, Ellen Desjardins writes extensively about food security issues. Her current research explores how people respond to a changing food environment.
Eliane Morin is a Calgary-based freelance writer and recipient of the 2007 Brenda Strathern Writing Prize. She has been frequenting inner-city markets since she was four years old.
Debbe Crandall is one of Canada’s foremost environmental crusaders and the executive director of the Save the Oak Ridges Moraine Coalition. She lives on the moraine. Robert Gibson, the chair of Alternatives’ editorial board and a professor at the University of Waterloo, has a special interest in sustainable
David Richard Boyd is an adjunct professor at Simon Fraser University, and is the author of Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Health Hazards.
During his 21 years as a staff reporter at the Toronto Sun, David Kendall covered everything from rape n’ pillage to Mrs. Brown’s cockroach infestation. His current novel, Death Wish, is set mainly in Nauru, a place he visited in 2007.