Jenny Uechi

Director of Engagement-Climate & Culture Editor

About Jenny Uechi

Jenny Uechi leads engagement at National Observer. She is also CNO's Climate & Culture editor.

After serving as Managing Editor of Vancouver Observer for five years, Uechi became Managing Editor of National Observer for one year. She then moved on to a year of reporting on the lives of Syrian refugees newly resettling in the Vancouver area. After this, she became part of Observer Media Group's business development team, taking on the role of operations manager.

She was formerly an editor at Adbusters magazine, and later worked as a freelance writer for The Japan Times in Tokyo and as a news director for NHK Newsline, part of the television division of Japan’s national public broadcaster.

197 Articles

Environmental groups applaud Quebec’s ban on fossil fuel exploration

In a groundbreaking move, Quebec Premier François Legault announced the province will "definitively renounce the extraction of hydrocarbons on its territory" during a speech Tuesday.

Race Against Climate Change

Canada’s race to net-zero and the role of renewable energy

As the UN climate talks draw near, Canada has enormous work left to do to reach its goals of reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

Conversations

Greta Thunberg's speech at Youth4Climate hits hard at 'empty words and promises'

"Thirty years of blah, blah, blah," Greta Thunberg said in a speech Tuesday. "Net zero by 2025. By 2050! This is all we hear from our leaders. Words that sound great, but so far have led to no action. Our hopes and dreams drowned in their empty words and promises."

COP26: Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change

Young people demand rich countries take more responsibility for global warming in Africa

Youth activists in major cities in Ghana, Kenya, Benin, Nigeria, Uganda, Togo, and the Democratic Republic of Congo staged protests, delivered petitions to leaders, and dropped banners protesting climate change.

COP26: Uniting the World to Tackle Climate Change

Comedians team up to prevent climate apocalypse

Seven late night comedy hosts devoted a portion of each of their shows on Wednesday evening to discussing climate change as part of a coordinated effort to raise awareness about the looming crisis.

Glen Murray on climate, courage and media

“We don't need more research or more new technologies. We need to rapidly deploy what we already know," said former Ontario Environment Minister Glen Murray.

Subscriber profiles

Struggle for solar power in B.C.

Race Against Climate Change

Canadian Andrew S. Wright's "Price of Oil" shortlisted for international Wildlife Photographer of the Year award

Yazidi women face nightmarish healing process. Here's what Canadians can do to help.

Nadia Murad, a Yazidi woman from Iraq who was forced into sexual slavery by the Islamic State, won the Nobel Peace Prize along with Congolese gynecologist and surgeon Denis Mukwege for "their efforts to end use of sexual violence as a weapon of war and armed conflict."

Notley's punishing push back

Premier Rachel Notley pulled Alberta out of the national climate agreement Thursday until the federal government gets the Trans Mountain pipeine expansion back on track.

Trans Mountain