Our Green Heart author Diana Beresford-Kroeger is enlisting everyone for her global tree-planting project
Diana Beresford-Kroeger’s early life reads like the stuff of myths, or at least the most heart-wrenching of Disney movies. Orphaned at 13, she bounced around southern Ireland to stay with extended family, an eccentric bunch of highly educated aristocrats who schooled her in math, astronomy and the art of Celtic plant medicine. After collecting a few degrees—including Ph.D.s in biology and biochemistry—Beresford-Kroeger gained international recognition as a champion for the world’s forests, doing for trees, some argue, what Jane Goodall did for chimps. In addition to films and sold-out talks, the rock-star botanist’s advocacy includes nine books, the latest of which is Our Green Heart, a capstone project that encourages each Earthling to plant one tree per year. For Maclean’s, I spoke to Beresford-Kroeger about saving the trees and living the simple life from her home in rural Merrickville, Ontario. She was on a break from stockpiling firewood for the winter. —Katie Underwood, managing editor |
For a city of just 11,000 people, Bromont, Quebec, isn’t short on entertainment for visitors; 1.6 million of them flock there each year to blow off steam on its slopes and trails. For those looking to gear down, there are galleries, gourmet restaurants and a handful of spas—including Balnea, which offers massages, thermotherapy and yoga on 80 acres within an 800-acre nature reserve. Take a look inside the spa’s new outdoor extension, which offers an eco-friendly hideout for the winter-getaway crowd. |
While Marc-André Gagnon was a master’s student in organizational development at HEC Montréal in the late 2010s, he racked up credit debt and student loans. “Debt was common in my group of friends. I figured it was just part of being a student,” he writes in this feature for Maclean’s. But after Gagnon graduated, financial anxiety and job stress left him feeling like a shell of a human. How a life on wheels helped him get back on track. |
Canada is one of the world’s hottest destinations for travellers who want to see climate-threatened places before they’re gone. But is the rush to visit glaciers and polar bears accelerating their decline? Read Christopher Lemieux’s feature on last-chance tourism from our November issue. |
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