sustainability

So That’s Where it Was!

A cross-country trip via Greyhound occasioned a stop in the blasted moonscape of Sudbury, Ontario. It was a weird place in 1975, with a giant Canadian nickel presiding over a town with no trees, no animals or birds, just rock stained black by metals.

What led to the destruction of greater Sudbury’s environment, and the 40-years of painstaking, award-winning repairs, bears examination.