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Journalist and author of The Day the World Stops Shopping and other books. Adjunct professor, UBC School of Journalism, Writing, and Media.

Vancouver, Canada
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JB MacKinnon
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I'm an inconstant presence on Twitter, but I do send out a newsletter each time I publish longform writing. If that's of interest, sign up at .
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Grizzly bear hunting? Outrage. Ordinary roads as “the most imminent threat to grizzly habitat today”? Crickets. And other insights from the age of "road ecology," by @ben_a_goldfarb | @theatlantic
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Waking up to an unexpectedly large amount of rat love. Thank you, everybody. “The interspecies genocide approach—it’s not effective, it’s never worked. It’s just silly to carry on the way we have been.”
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The wolves and I just picked up gold for Best Investigative Article at the Canadian Online Publishing Awards. Thanks to #COPAwards , @hakaimagazine , everyone who spoke to me for the story. And to wolves everywhere.
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Chatting with library folks about how reading changed in the pandemic, I learned that demand for "self-absorbed genres" was replaced by demand for books about social justice. Give us time and space free from consumer pressures, and we engage with issues larger than ourselves.
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15 years ago, Alisa Smith and I wrote a series @TheTyee that went on to become our book The 100-Mile Diet. To celebrate, The Tyee is running stories all week on local food, starting with an interview with these kids. (And 65% off on sales of the book...)
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It was a joy to write about these strangely hope-inducing whales. This article made better by: editor @nijhuism , fact-checker @itsemilykrieger , copyeditor Amy Stackhouse, illustrator Gabriel Alcala, and many more behind the scenes @TheAtlantic .
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Having been asked about this many times, let me say definitively that the takeaway from my latest book is the whole damn thing. Otherwise, why did I bother?
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JB MacKinnon
2 years
The more I hear about green consumerism, the more I appreciate Hannah Arendt: "A consumers' society cannot possibly know how to take care of a world...the attitude of consumption spells ruin to everything it touches."
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JB MacKinnon
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Now available in Canada. Who is this book for? Anyone who wonders—even sometimes—if all of us can consume more and more, forever, without laying waste to the planet. Anyone who wonders—even a little bit—if consumerism is really making us happy. With thx @randomhouseca
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@dieworkwear Mystified by the argument that fast fashion is friendly to lower incomes. It drives repeat sales through poor quality and faster fashion cycles. It undermines thrifting, handing down, and repairs. It rewards those who can afford disposability and hurts those who can’t.
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Stunned during #solareclipse2017 when light thru trees acted as a million pinhole cameras...
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As a person who writes about things like consumerism and melting glaciers and endangered birds, I often get asked if I'm hopeful. I think I've found my answer in a poem by @whatwillsuffice in @Harpers : "The light that is off / Is still a light."
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JB MacKinnon
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Just received my author's copy of the beautiful UK edition by @TheBodleyHead . There's nothing fragile about the book, so I assume they're referring to my ego.
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30 years ago, the fight to save the last of BC's ancient forests was urgent; now, it's desperate. Does that change the rules of engagement for activists? An important piece by @zoeyunker / @serena_renner via @TheTyee
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JB MacKinnon
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Cheers for the gratz, everyone. Thanks again to @DPAwards , @UnrealTRBridge , @serena_renner , @HakaiInstitute , and @ltrethew . Let’s stop having to write about climate disasters soon, okay?
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Digital Publishing Awards
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"The Demon River" by @JB_MacKinnon and published by @HakaiInstitute wins gold in Best Science and Technology Storytelling. Congratulations! #DPA23
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My latest, for @HakaiMagazine . As always, a roll of the credits: Editor @judeisabella Art @Sarah_Gilman Fact checker Sophie Weiler Additional thanks @JenniferJacquet and to all of my sources, whether named in the story or not. via @hakaimagazine
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In case you've forgotten, this is what good news looks like: Swift foxes #rewilding themselves on protected land. @VanessaHrvatin
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I once read a study that found 88 different seafoods in use by one BC coastal indigenous culture. According to this important story by @bbrraaeellaa , most BCers now eat about 5 types. What a striking difference in relationships to place. via @TheTyee
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JB MacKinnon
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Feels somehow hopeful that a book about reducing consumption made the podium at the Best in Business Book Awards. Thanks @SABEW , and congrats to winning team @sheeraf & @ceciliakang (An Ugly Truth) and fellow finalist @lauren_etter (The Devil's Playbook).
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SABEW
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Congrats to SABEW 2021 Best in Business Book Awards finalist @JB_MacKinnon on his literary work “The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves,” published by @eccobooks . Thanks to @Investopedia for being the awards sponsor.
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Promoting a book about not-shopping was always going to be awkward, but, you know, I do hope people will read it.
@eccobooks
Ecco
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"A well-researched and provocative analysis offering hope and optimism for our future." @KirkusReviews gives THE DAY THE WORLD STOPS SHOPPING by @JB_MacKinnon a starred review!
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I just watched airport security let someone exceed their liquid allowance for a half-full bottle of maple syrup “because it’s so good,” and my faith in humanity is briefly restored.
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JB MacKinnon
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@slouisepetersen In daydreams I open a restaurant called Yesterday’s Soup, because yesterday’s is always better than today’s. My partner assures me this is a bad plan.
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As someone who never imagined his work would be recognized as business writing, I really appreciate this kudos from my new biz-lit colleagues.
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SABEW
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Congrats to J.B. MacKinnon whose book “The Day the World Stops Shopping,” published by @eccobooks , was selected for the shortlist in SABEW’s Best in Business Book Awards!
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JB MacKinnon
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Happy birthday and long live to the invaluable @hakaimagazine .
@hakaimagazine
Hakai Magazine
2 years
The modern wolf lives in the world we make for it, one of failing salmon runs, ungulate barrens, wildlife selfies, waterfront homes, and late-night hikers. 🐺 In 2018, @JB_MacKinnon won three national awards for this story. #HakaiMagTurns7
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Tonight! The planet needs us to stop shopping, the economy needs us to consume more and more. What's the solution? Join me and @DorothyWoodend as we dare to discuss "the new elephant in the room." via @TheTyee
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JB MacKinnon
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Thx @MagAwards , and again @hakaimagazine . And also to the wolves of Vancouver Island, long may they roam.
@MagAwards
National Magazine Awards
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"Death of a Modern Wolf" by @JB_MacKinnon from @hakaimagazine wins Silver for Long-Form Feature Writing. #NMA18
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JB MacKinnon
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Much talk about fast fashion these days, but I'm even more alarmed by the same model (fast trend cycles + disposability) showing up in areas like housewares, home renos, appliances like ovens and fridges—things many people used to leave unchanged across decades.
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JB MacKinnon
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We're getting used to climate change breaking weather records. Now, here and there, it shatters them. Huge thanks to everyone who spoke to me for this story, lead editor Tyee Bridge, improver-of-everything @serena_renner , & the whole @HakaiInstitute crew.
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JB MacKinnon
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For years now I've hesitated to apply Albrecht's term solastalgia—homesickness for home as you've known it—to myself. This week nothing is familiar. The feel of this place on my skin is like another country, another time.
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Just randomly stumbled on this. #CoronaVirusChallenge
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Hard to get excited about home recycling and individual flight shaming as the world's major economies rev up for huge increases in military spending.
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Reminder: my book makes a terrible Christmas present.
@career_re
Re-energising Your Career
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#AcademicTwitter In September we asked what book has influenced you the most in your life so far! We had lots of replies & will be sharing each of these books with you! Hopefully they will inspire you too! #books @JB_MacKinnon The Day the World Stops Shopping - J.B. MacKinnon
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A must-read primer on local food systems and security right-here-right-now. Crafted and compiled by @serena_renner , ft. @earthapplefarm , @jesshousty , Michael Ableman, Kent Mullinix, @smsmukler , and more. via @TheTyee
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Went off-grid, returned to find @AnneCasselman 's inventive (but firmly grounded in science) story about Canada's climate future in @macleans . I can't imagine anyone reading this and not learning something new. Something deeply disquieting.
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JB MacKinnon
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Another opportunity to thank @judeisabella & @hakaimagazine for publishing long, entirely non-trending stuff, in the writers’ voices.
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JB MacKinnon
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Consuming less might involve a stronger, not a weaker, attachment to our things—so @TheTyee wants to hear about your most beloved, long-lasting possession. Mine is this purple fleece.
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How did a magazine that covers coastal science and culture(?!) become an outlet all the cool kids are writing for? Here’s your answer:
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Digital Publishing Awards
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🏆 The 2023 Digital Publishing Leadership Award goes to... @JudeIsabella , Editor-in-Chief of @hakaimagazine ! A beacon of dedication, innovation, and leadership in journalism. Congratulations, Jude! 🎉 #DigitalPublishing #LeadershipAward
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One week from today, in Canada. @randomhouseca
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In a single-subject case study, I have confirmed that checking out all the winners' work will make you feel smart and cool. Much appreciation @AAASKavli , @NautilusMag .
@AAASKavli
AAAS Kavli Awards
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Congrats to @JB_MacKinnon for taking home the silver award in Magazine
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Happy for my three cow protagonists that their survival-against-all-odds story from @atavist will appear in the 2023 Best Science & Nature Writing anthology. Many thanks to guest ed @carlzimmer , series ed @jaimealyse , publisher @MarinerBooks .
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Tomorrow at noon: Talking about the world's greatest environmental challenge—consumerism—with one of my heroes, @Tzeporah . Anyone, anywhere can join in @VPL .
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Mystified by #AlexHonnold 's #ElCap free solo? My @NautilusMag story on his brain is making the rounds again...
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"A wolf is a rare sight to modern human eyes; a modern wolf may be encountering people all the time." @hakaimagazine
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JB MacKinnon
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For those who love the NW shore of North America, and dare to suggest it has its own ideas sprung from the place and its peoples, this is a terrific update on cutting-edge coastal science. by Tyee Bridge, ⁦ @HakaiInstitute
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This Thursday: Talking consumerism and its alternatives with @DorothyWoodend , who—like many of us—has a love-hate relationship with it all. Anyone, anywhere, can join us online. via @TheTyee
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A work of abstract art that is actually whales.
@DavorenLab
Davoren Lab
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As we enter the last month of 2018, our team is already eager to start a new field season in beautiful #Newfoundland ! Here is one of our highlights for summer 2018 with over a 100 humpback whales and thousands of seabirds feeding on capelin near our study sites off the NE coast!
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When I wrote this, presenting visible signs of climate warming still felt new, even a little controversial. That was just six years ago.
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Hakai Magazine
2 years
Glaciers have always been a part of the BC coast—western science and traditional knowledge tell a similar story of a world of ice that slowly gave way to land and life. 🧊 This story by @JB_MacKinnon nabbed a 2016 Jack Webster Award. #HakaiMagTurns7
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I grew up in Kamloops, where 215 Indigenous children's graves have been found on the grounds of a former residential school. It's open country, the grounds are highly visible. People must have seen the burials, known of them. I never heard a word spoken about it.
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Holiday season spending in America has increased by nearly 20% per capita since 2012 (inflation adjusted). Do the holidays feel 20% more fun and meaningful? Or did we just add one-fifth more environmental impact and financial stress, and get back...nothing much?
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Writing process. I don’t sit on the chair. I sprawl across the seat, face down, so that I hover over it all. Good for my lower back, too.
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Earth Day should be not only a holiday but a sabbath—a day when consumer culture grinds to a halt.
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A wonderful, storyful history of conservation’s doers and thinkers. May their dreams inspire. May their flaws keep us humble about the certainties of the present. Happy publication day ⁦ @nijhuism ⁩.
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This is out today (in Canada, too). Many thanks to @SyTheAuthor @jaimealyse @HMHbooks for including my story on right whales, and to @nijhuism and @TheAtlantic for working with me on the original. #bestamerican2019
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On the job: Sitting in the twilight waiting for a wolf to howl.
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In deconsumer culture, oldest and best beats newest and latest. @TheTyee asked readers to salute their favourite long-lived things...and got enough replies to launch a series.
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Will planned obsolescence swallow up durable LEDs? My latest up @NewYorker :
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I'm giving a freudensprung (see article for translation) that @Sarah_Gilman illustrated my latest for @hakaimagazine . Don't miss Gilman's homebody rat, mug shot rat, and—yes—freudensprung rat.
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Sarah M. Gilman
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It was SUCH a joy to spend time with @JB_MacKinnon 's lovely essay, and of course to make a whole lotta little paintings about rats
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I was supposed to be in Boulder receiving an award today, but my flights didn't connect so I'm back home catching up on washing the dishes. Which feels good, but surely not as good. Wish I was there, @ScienceWriters ! Thanks again!
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Have been meaning to say that while post-nature writing isn’t new, it really feels like it has arrived with this @ElizKolbert ⁩ book. Captures all the disquieting surreality, with appropriately dark humour. Maybe her best yet?
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Many thx @TheTyee for having me as guest editor last week for the 15th anniversary of the 100-mile diet. (Note: they did all the work.) The whole package of stories is below...and with that I retreat to my lonesome garret.
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Never tweeted this because: bad at Twitter. But I’m in here, next to some guy called ⁦ @BarackObama ⁩. And don’t you deserve...the best?
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Suzanne Crocker and her family took their local-eating experiment to the next level—in Dawson City, Yukon. Watch for the film, "First We Eat." via @TheTyee
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Many defend fast fashion by saying it provides jobs in poorer countries. You might be surprised by how some people in the Bangladesh garment industry feel about that argument. My latest for @Sierra_Magazine .
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A nice round-up of mostly recent books on rewilding, with The Once and Future World in there as a throwback ("ahead of its time" does sound better than "no one much read it back then").
@rewildingmag
Rewilding Magazine
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🐛Calling all bookworms, our 2021 book list is out! With authors including @Emma_Marris , @calflyn , @flowill , @JB_MacKinnon , @isabella_tree , @lucyjones , @ayanaeliza , @creeclayton , @karenlloydwrite & more:
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This very good book is available today. Please buy it. Forget purity, forget irony: buy it. Because in the crazy consumer culture that @vancouverharris is challenging, buying books makes their message stronger.
@vancouverharris
Michael Harris
2 years
Happy Book Birthday to this little guy. 💜 Feeling tired/proud/elated/nervous/excited/etc. This book was finished during the pandemic and arrives in a world without launch parties. But I've got a tiny parade going on in my heart and you're all invited.
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Many books launch with swag or merch these days. Mine didn't, of course...but I can't help but picture a cap emblazoned with Burn the Money, a t-shirt reading Deconsumer, and a shoulder bag that says We May Have to See the Ruins to Know It's Time to Build Something New.
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Our sense of what is beautiful is grounded in the natural world. Like this.
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This photo of orcas breaching in rough seas, taken from a sword fishing boat off the coast of Nova Scotia is simply amazing
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Reading this great work of atmospheric-river-lit from 1941 has been feeling a little too appropriate on the west coast lately…
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My @Orion_Magazine essay "False Idyll" repub'd in Norway, amid a wolf-kill debate. Dig the haunting art by Sverre Malling.
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Author @JohnVaillant 's reasoned and impassioned testimony before Canada's Standing Committee on Natural Resources: The age of oil has given us extraordinary gifts, but must end or render this planet uninhabitable. "Who's stopping us?"
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Only when riding a bicycle in winter rain do I feel both bracingly alive and melancholy.
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Late to the party but...thx @DPAwards and congrats to @hakaimagazine for winning General Excellence: Medium Publications and most awards overall.
@DPAwards
Digital Publishing Awards
6 years
Congrats on your Silver win for Best Feature Article: Long for your piece "Death of a Modern Wolf" @JB_MacKinnon ! #DPA18
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JB MacKinnon
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Respect. #FairyCreek
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Ricochet Media
3 years
This massive stump is part of a logging blockade the RCMP is attempting to remove today on Vancouver Island. We'll have more updates as soon as our reporter is back in communication. More photos from yesterday's arrests: #bcpoli #FairyCreek #cdnpoli
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You’ll come away from this @serena_renner story an expert in atmospheric rivers—and maybe a fighter to free the rivers, too. @hakaimagazine
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Serena Renner
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Atmospheric rivers have become synonymous with big floods, but I first learned about them amid a summer drought. Turns out "one is just the flip side of the other" on the West Coast, which I explore in my first @hakaimagazine feature about embracing rain.
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Things I didn't know my new book was about until I read the index.
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Now available across the USA. Who is this book for? Anyone who feels uneasy about the world going back to full-throttle consumerism. And anyone who doesn't.
@eccobooks
Ecco
3 years
Today is publication day for THE DAY THE WORLD STOPS SHOPPING by @JB_MacKinnon ! Start reading this thought-provoking and surprisingly hopeful new book:
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A rare (for me) doubleheader of new mag features today: @PacificStand : @HakaiMagazine :
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Roll the credits. First and greatest thanks go to my sources. Who knew "cow people" were so amazing? Well, I do now. Huge thanks also to @seywarddarby and @jonahogles for taking this on @atavist . It's easy to say no to an oddball tale. They said yes.
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I'm talking consumerism (and how we might get over it) in my old second-hometown of Victoria tonight. Always lots of Q&A, too. Join us? @MunrosBooks
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"We went from consuming to being consumers. It had been one identity among many, but then it became *the* identity." — @jonjalex (Thx @thegooglesmedia for duly mocking me with this photoshop.)
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The leopard is all living things. The well is human impact. The ladder is #rewilding .
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Allow me to point out—ironically, perhaps to the point of hypocrisy—that Christmas is coming.
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Jason Farman
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Want a great nonfiction book to read this fall? I'll be posting some amazing nonfiction books that are on my bookshelf right now. First up is The Day the World Stops Shopping: How Ending Consumerism Saves the Environment and Ourselves by @JB_MacKinnon
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Watching snow fall off trees under the influence of sunlight is my new definition of the "soft fascination" effect of nature on the human mind.
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2 years
Happy to be spending Earth Day countering consumerism. Join us?
@MRUSustainable
MRU Sustainability
2 years
Today is #EarthDay2022 we are celebrating with @JB_MacKinnon as he discusses his recent book. We are also announcing the winners of the Countering Consumerism Contest. Check out the top 10 videos in the thread below! Join us at 5pm MST at
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Apparently it's 'Amazon Prime Day'. We used to take holidays from commercialism. Now we talk about commercialism as though it were a holiday.
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JB MacKinnon
6 months
I hear there’s some chatter out there about my book TDTWSS. If you want to include me in your convos, or shoot me a question, I’m here. Be warned that I practice Slow Social Media…
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JB MacKinnon
7 years
Can a mag story be epic? @judeisabella says yes w/ a sweeping piece on Japan's #indigenous Ainu. @hakaimagazine
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JB MacKinnon
8 years
Why is it so hard to care deeply about climate change? A few thoughts as the glaciers melt: @hakaimagazine
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JB MacKinnon
10 years
Humbled by so much support for my arrest at #BurnabyMountain . I send all the good wishes on to the other 50+ arrestees and those to come.
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JB MacKinnon
6 years
My latest: "If right whales are threatened with extinction, it’s not from a lack of grit. It’s because their home is one of the most human-modified and influenced regions on Earth." #rewilding
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JB MacKinnon
1 year
More than a year after an atmospheric river storm led to an off-the-charts flood along the Nicola River, BC, a ranch sign is on its way home. It turned up three rivers and a stretch of ocean away—350 km as the water flows.
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JB MacKinnon
9 months
What better way to build an appetite for Canadian Thanksgiving than by reading about rats?
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Great Canadian Longform
9 months
PIECE OF THE WEEK: Rats are less pestilent and more lovable than we think. Can we learn to live with them? ( @hakaimagazine @JB_Mackinnon )
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JB MacKinnon
4 years
"In little more than a century, fish stocks in the North Sea have declined by 99%. For people living today, a grey and exhausted sea is all they know. O.T. Olsen's Atlas of the North Sea's fish species is a reminder of the richness that once was."
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JB MacKinnon
2 years
This @arno_kopecky piece @TheTyee is good reporting for divisive times: it starts from the assumption that the people working within our terribly imperfect systems are just that: people.
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