World Changing

Eric Lombardi, the waste-management guru behind Boulder, Colo.-based recycler Eco-Cycle, is fighting incinerators around the world with a vision. Although his Zero-Waste Park may never be built, he has been able to use the artistic plan as an effective tool for discussion that has allowed city planners to consider alternative solutions.

The Globe and Mail

Eco-activists and other crusaders often rely on high-profile stunts to generate funds and media buzz for their causes: dangling from smokestacks, chaining themselves to trees, dressing up as fuzzy mascots for “die-ins.”

The Globe and Mail

Those who are well off in Canada are far bigger eco-villains when it comes to harming the environment than those in lower-income groups, according to a study that is the first to try to quantify ecological damage done by Canadians based on income levels.