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Can Conservation Strategies Lead to Sustainable Development? A\J 16.4-17.1

Can Conservation Strategies Lead to Sustainable Development? 16.4-17.1

Editorial: Time for a new package of ideas, icons and “isms” – J.G. Nelson Conservation Strategies: Providing the Vision for Sustainable Development – E.W. Manning Sea Changes, Sustainability and Strategies – Michael Kelly and Kim Sanderson Provincial Conservation Strategies: The Experience of Prince Edward Island – John B. McClellan

Green Humour: Laugh or Die Alternatives Journal 16.2

Green Humour: Laugh or Die 16.2

Editorial: Lighten up, eh – Eric Higgs and Robert Gibson Seven Ways to Bring Humour to Your Environmental Group – Charles Varon The Environmentalist as Dark Comedian – Peter Timmerman Debate Rages Over Shocking Half Human/Half Animal Babies – William M. Glenn Keeping up with the Joneses – Jeffrey Kohl […]

Is Sustainability Possible Without Equity? Alternatives Journal 16.3

Is Sustainability Possible Without Equity? 16.3

Editorial: View from the precipice – Susan Wismer Thinking Globally and Acting Locally – Julia Gardner and Mark Roseland Part I – Thinking Globally: The Role of Social Equity in Sustainable Development Part II – Acting Locally: Community Strategies for Equitable Sustainable Development Feminist Utopian Vision and Social Change – […]

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 […]

Protesters and Ideologues Alternatives Journal 15.4

Protesters and Ideologues 15.4

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 […]

Work and Environment in a High Tech World Alternatives Journal 14.3-4

Work and Environment in a High Tech World 14.3-4

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 […]

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 […]

In With The Old

WINDOWS IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS are often a source of tension between the historic preservation movement and people who want to increase the energy efficiency of older buildings by replacing wooden windows with vinyl ones. To support its case, the preservation movement argues, “The greenest building is the one that is […]

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?

Under the Gun: Militarism and the Environment Alternatives Journal 7.3

Under the Gun: Militarism and the Environment 7.3

Editorial: Environment and Economic Policy – Ted Schrecker Under the Gun: Militarism and the Environment – Ernie Regehr Energy and Labor: Job Implications of Energy Development or Shortage – Barry Commoner Solar Energy: One Union’s Viewpoint – John Kurchak The Marine Mode: Oil, Gas and Arctic Shipping – Edgar J. […]