Canadian Exports Explored on Canada Day

Oh Canada, frigid country to the North, today is your day! The day you threw off your English shackles and united the provinces to form your beautiful country. So today, on this day of Canadian Days, we salute your exceptional Canadian exports: Dan Aykroyd, Alanis Morissette, Molson Beer, and Bauxite. But today, on this day of Canadian Days, we'll take a closer look at Canada's most famous export: Alphabet City Books.

John Knechtel founded Alphabet City in 1991, and began publishing this series with the MIT Press in 2004. The Alphabet City series focuses on rethinking ideas that are central to our lives, like water, food, and fuel.

In the current book, Fuel, contributors explore questions like: What will the world look like after peak oil? Will the changes be sudden or slow? How will the future of energy consumption drive decisions made today?

In the forthcoming book in the series, Water, photographers document water infrastructure from the inside out, wandering the drained hydrology tunnels beneath Niagara Falls; a memoirist recounts her life through the lens of swimming and her relationship to water; and an urban planner designs a return to the urban waterways of the 19th and 20th centuries and as a
consequence brings nature and urban living back into balance.

Alphabet City, Canada is proud of you for pushing smart readers everywhere out of our comfort zones and challenging us to think deeply about complex issues!

Happy Canada Day, Canada!