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Exploring International Environmental Agreements 20.1

Editorial: Global Problems, government limits – Robert Gibson Beyond Rio?: The Evolution of International Environmental Law – Jutta Brunnee Protecting a Land Without a Country: The Antarctic Environmental Protocol – David S. Russell Forging a Link: Two Approaches to Integrating Trade and Environment – Laurie Henderson Canadian, World, Technology Notes

Green (TM) Alternatives Journal 18.3

Green(TM) 18.3

Editorial: In search of the missing links – Robert Gibson The Green Product Endorsement Controversy: Lessons from the Pollution Probe/Loblaws Experience – Gary Gallon Inset: Beware of bogus green products Inset: Other types of product support Inset: Fundraising – the nightmare of the “politically correct” by Susanna Reid

The Greening: Celebrating 20 Years of Citizen Participation Alternatives Journal

The Greening: Celebrating 20 Years of Citizen Participation 19.1

Editorial: What’s the score after 20 years? – Robert Gibson Eco-History: Two Waves in the Evolution of Environmentalism – Robert PaehlkeInset: Regrets as hope Differences in Opinion: Round Tables, Policy Networks and the Failure of Canadian Environmental Strategy – Michael HowlettInset: Round tables taken with a grain of salt by […]

Eating Up

THE QUESTION made a great conversation starter on its own: Can a grand dinner party bringing together the right people spark a conversation that could change the world? Last November, World Accord International Development Agency in Waterloo, Ontario, decided to find out.

Great $aves

MODERN CONCERNS about energy started with two oil-price shocks in the 1970s, coming to the fore again in the 1980s with the Chernobyl nuclear disaster and the Exxon Valdez oil spill. Then, more recently, we experienced the Deepwater Horizon and Fukushima disasters. Who knows what the future holds?

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The New Normal

ENERMODAL ENGINEERING is Canada’s largest consulting firm exclusively dedicated to creating green buildings and communities. The company recently celebrated its 100th LEED-certified building, and its president and founder Stephen Carpenter was named a LEED fellow. He spoke with Alternatives’ podcaster Mark Brooks. Mark Brooks: What exactly is LEED certification?

Robyn Hall

Robyn Hall is the communications manager for Canadian Business for Social Responsibility, a non-profit consultancy that helps Canadian companies improve their social, environmental and economic performance.

The Third Industrial Revolution book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

The Third Industrial Revolution: How Lateral Power is Transforming Energy, the Economy, and the World

Society has always had a weakness for seers and prophets, those who claim the ability to travel mentally to that murky destination called the future and bring back lessons for today. But the next frontier is, of course, an unknowable place. Regardless of how attractive or compelling a vision of […]

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 […]

Paths to a Green World book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Paths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment

Professors Clapp and Dauvergne are among the few academics that recognize that the best approach to both analysis of and advocacy for environmental issues lies with political economy, or public policy designed by the application of economic concepts. Their book is a demonstration of that thesis, which they undertake by […]