The small town of Elmira is well known for its maple syrup, horse-drawn buggies and streets named after birds. Fewer people know it as the site of a special night of drunken vandalism, which would set into motion significant changes to the Canadian criminal justice system.
Many of us are concerned about environmental issues like climate change, but don’t know what, personally, to do. I am often overwhelmed by the severity and complexity of the issues, which causes me to question whether all my composting, biking and farmer’s market shopping are really helping to create a greener human population that this planet can sustain.