Miranda Holmes is a former journalist who spent a decade working on toxics and genetic engineering for Greenpeace and other environmental organizations in Canada and the UK. She has also worked on human rights and development issues. She is now an associate editor of the award-winning Watershed Sentinel magazine.
by Miranda Holmes
An estimated 22,000 women in Canada are diagnosed with breast cancer annually and nearly ten times as many in the United States. Almost a quarter of these people will die. Nobody knows why.
by Miranda Holmes
March 22 is World Water Day, established by the UN as a day to contemplate the importance of access to water for life on earth. Just like every other day of the year., on World Water Day, nearly 2000 children around the world will die from diarrhea caused by unsafe water and poor sanitation.
It is almost impossible to overstate the difference access to clean water can make to an impoverished community.
