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Wilderness Conflicts Alternatives Journal 15.3

Wilderness Conflicts 15.3

Editorial: Where the wild things are – Robert Gibson The Stein River: Wilderness, Culture and Human Survival – Michael M’Gonigle Roads to Nowhere: Incremental Access and the Shrinking Wilderness – Julian A. Dunster La Conservation de la Nature au Quebec – Jean-Luc Bourdages Wilderness in New Zealand – Colin Michael […]

Confronting Bureaucracy Alternatives Journal 14.2

Confronting Bureaucracy 14.2

Editorial: The Problem of Bureaucracy – Douglas Torgerson Between the Rocks and Hard Places: Bureaucrats, the Law and Pollution Control – Kernaghan Webb Understanding Policy-making: A Necessary First Step for Environmentalists – Terrance J. Downey Fiscal Crisis, Environmental Protection and the State: A New Zealand Case Study – Frank J. […]

Photo: Chris Zulinov Hurrican Katrina house rebuilding elevated

Those Brad Pitt Houses

AS WE CROSSOVER the Claiborne Avenue bridge from the Upper Ninth Ward on Gray Line International’s “Hurricane Katrina – America’s Greatest Catastrophe” tour, local artist Brad Dupuy informs us in his rich voice that we “are about to enter what is known famously as the Lower Ninth Ward.” What makes […]

Bhopal Legacies Alternatives Journal 13.4

Bhopal Legacies 13.4

Editorial: Salvation in insignificant increments – Robert Gibson The Three Legacies of Bhopal – Sehdev Kumar Feasting in Haida Gwaii – Alex Grzybowski and Diane Brown Wild Plants: Sustenance for the Hungry – Liz Pope The Grassroots Approach to Development in Latin America – Miguel A. Altieri Freedom and Necessity […]

The Politics of Acid Rain Alternatives Journal 11.2

The Politics of Acid Rain 11.2

Editorial: Acid Rain and Political Reality – Douglas Torgerson Acid Rain as a Political Dilemma – Robert Gibson Acid Rain Diplomacy: The Need for a Bilateral Resolution – John Carroll Life, Liberty and the American Pursuit of Acid Rain – Don Munton Industry and Acid Rain: The Canadian Corporate Response […]

Get More Mileage From Your Home

MOST PEOPLE WOULDN’T buy a car without knowing its fuel economy, or sign up for a cellphone plan without comparing service-provider rates. Yet when it comes to one of life’s biggest investments – purchasing a home – few people question how much it will cost to operate that house over […]

Winter 1974 Alternative Journal 3.2

Winter 1974 3.2

Editorial: Labour and the Environment – Robert C. Paehlke A Question of Choice – David Brooks and Alma Norman Goin’ Down the River to James Bay – Bruce Hodgins, Carol Hodgins and Marcus Bruce Save Maple Mountain! – Jamie Benidickson Federal Air Pollution Policy: Some Thoughts on Effects and Feedbacks […]

Susan Spronk

Susan Spronk is a postdoctoral fellow at Cornell University and a specialist on social movements in Latin America.

Industrial Evolution book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Industrial Evolution: Local Solutions for a Low Carbon Future

“At some point, someone in America is going to have to make something.” These obvious yet perhaps revolutionary words come from Industrial Evolution, a wonderful new book by Lyle Estill, an entrepreneur, author, and, dare I say, environmental industrialist. The book’s premise reflects something that we all know but generally […]