Broken Atlas is the virtual woodshed of Christopher Frey, a Toronto-based journalist who writes on culture, economics and technology in a globalizing world. The book Broken Atlas will be published by Random House in 2010.
Entries Tagged as 'Environment'
Smells like bad carbon
March 5th, 2008 · No Comments
My recent piece about what’s in store for Guyana’s rainforest touched on the issue of carbon cap & trade markets and whether they can effectively reduce emissions globally. Especially when it comes to conserving the world’s remaining tropical forests. Here’s a piece in last week’s New Yorker worth reading, even if it glosses over the […]
Tags: Carbon · Environment · Politics
A Forest for the Trees
January 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
I’ve posted a version of my Globe and Mail article on Guyana’s rainforest proposal here.
Tags: Environment
Guyana’s Modest Proposal
January 21st, 2008 · No Comments
My feature on the future of Guyana’s rainforest appeared in Saturday’s Globe and Mail (Focus). Unfortunately, unless you’re a subscriber you’ll have to pay to read the article online—a practice which most other major North American dailies, including the New York Times and Wall Street Journal, have dropped. For those who can’t access the article, […]
Tags: Environment
Tarry-eyed
January 16th, 2008 · No Comments
Seeing as Canada is doing little to curb the destruction being wrought on the boreal forest by Alberta’s tar sands development or the staggering amount of waste water & greenhouse gas emissions generated to produce a single barrel of oil, it’s a relief at least to see Americans applying some pressure. A recently passed […]
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God, garbage and precious metal : A month in Guatemala
May 14th, 2007 · No Comments
Greetings from Guatemala City, where I am currently finishing up close to a month´s worth of research for the book. The city itself is worth some investigation despite the dire warnings of the guidebooks and the almost complete absence of any foreign tourists. The largest, most cosmopolitan city in Central America, it´s sprawling, chaotic, often […]
Tags: Environment · Politics
Portents & Possibilities
January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments
Now that a massive chunk of the Arctic ice shelf has calved itself off like a drifting tundra cracker—due to a variety of factors, all of which could be swept under the header of ‘global warming’—we have our second symbolic event to cast a shadow over the new year. The execution of Saddam Hussein was […]
Tags: Environment