Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Swimmable Beaches and Edible Fish – Donna M. Leith Sustainable Development and Water Resource Management – Barry Sadler Inset: The James Bay Hydroelectric Project by Fikret Berkes Remedial Action Plans: An Opportunity to Implement Sustainable Development at the Grassroots Level in the Great Lakes Basin – John H. Hartig […]
Editorial: Politics doesn’t have to be this way – Ted Schrecker No Place to Go: Nuclear Waste in the United Kingdom – Andrew Blowers Seals, Wolves and Words: Loaded Language in Environmental Controversy – John Alan Lee Exploring the New Ecologies: Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green […]
Editorial: Human and Environmental Contexts of Technological Change – Sally Lerner and Ted Schrecker The Uneasy Eighties: The Transition to an Information Society – Arthur J. Cordell A Union Course on New Technologies – Elaine Bernard A Labour Perspective: Finding Common Ground – Hugh Mackenzie Jobs and the Environment: Some […]
Editorial: Environment and development – Robert Gibson Environmental degradation and human conflict – John Tinker, Lloyd Timberlake and Renee Sabatier Women in development: a critique of mainstream models – Anita Anand Bhopal: a lesson for Canadian aid – Gary Gallon Development through conservation: the case of energy – William U. […]
Hard Nose on the Soft Path I write with congratulations on a thought-provoking and introspective 40th Anniversary issue of Alternatives. I am concerned, however, by a potential stumbling block faced by the environmental movement that may have greatly stymied our progress: We’re quite a weak lot, aren’t we? From “soft” […]
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.
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 […]
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?
Editorial: The Relevance of Ethics – Douglas Torgerson Moral Concern and the Ecosphere – John A. Livingston Moral Concern and Animals – Bernard E. Rollins The Canadian Harp Seal Hunt: A Moral Issue – L.W. Sumner Animal Suffering and the Ethics of Eating Meat – Robert E. Carter The Paradox […]
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 […]
