Longform features
Canada in the Year 2060
Maclean’s — September 2023
“Summers lost to fire and smoke. Biblical floods. Dying forests. Retreating coasts. Economic turmoil and political unrest. It’s going to be a weird century. Here’s what it will look like—and how Canada can get through it.”
HOW THE UK IS WINNING THE RACE AGAINST CLIMATE CHANGE
The Walrus — September 2022
“While Canada has fumbled every climate promise, the UK has been hitting its emissions targets. What would it take to catch up?”
EMISSIONS IMPOSSIBLE
The Walrus — July/August 2018
“As parts of the country flood—again—an unprecedented audit reveals serious flaws in our climate change policy”
The Nature of (Funding)Things
BCBusiness magazine — February 2016
“In less than six years, a former fishing lodge on remote Calvert Island has become one of the leading centres for marine research in Canada. Some 200 scientists and 80 research projects on B.C.’s central coast trace their work to the Hakai Institute’s support—and none of it would have been possible without the hands-on (and surprisingly low-profile) philanthropy of Eric Peterson”
Watching the Detectives
BCBusiness magazine — July 2015
“As capital investment in B.C.’s natural resource sector grows, the role of environmental assessments has become critical to a project’s viability. A negative assessment can mean the death of a development worth billions. But with the feds now promoting a self-regulating, self-reporting model of assessment, many worry that the environment—and the public interest—is being compromised for the sake of the almighty dollar.”