Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial – Robert Paehlke The Politics of Transformation – William Ophuls The Strongest Force in the Universe – Robert Herendeen Energy Policy Planning: Towards a Critical Perspective – Murray Randall Clearcutting Canada’s Forests – Ted Jackson Ethical Perspectives on Urban Transportation – Donald W. Huffman
Editorial: Environmentalism and Optimism – Robert C. Paehlke The Rise and Fall of Industrial Agriculture – Larry M. Geno The Future of Canadian Population Policy – Chris Taylor For an Eschatological Ecology – John M. Raftery Nuclear Power for Ontario? – Amory Lovins Nuclear Power: A New Dimension in Politics […]
Editorial: Nuclear Power – Robert C. Paehlke The Real Limits to Growth – W.A. Ross Some Ways of Thinking About the Future – Janice Tait An Exchange of Views on Nuclear Power – C.A. Mawson, Lille d’Easum and Ted Schrecker Prairie Madness: The Garrison Diversion – Onno Kremers Cooperative Settlements […]
University of Waterloo professor and the magazine’s long-time editor, Robert Gibson chairs Alternatives’ editorial board and writes our back-page column: What’s the Big Idea. He reads every word of every issue and can be thanked for the best – and the poopiest – article titles. Substitution gets us genetic engineering, nuclear […]
Chris Wood, is an author, speaker and journalist. He first wrote about the environment in the 1970s, winning awards for his coverage of nuclear power and agrochemicals. His most recent book, Down the Drain: How We Are Failing to Protect Our Water Resources (2013), written with Ralph Pentland, details how successive federal governments […]
Take a glimpse into the interdisciplinary environmental degrees at Canadian universities – and check out the thriving green student movement across the nation.
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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 […]
Unlike most academic books, Rethinking the Great White North stirred enough irritation to be attacked by a Globe and Mail columnist. Repeating an old saw, Margaret Wente previously wrote that what makes someone Canadian is having sex in a canoe. Maybe new immigrants should be taught to canoe, Wente said, […]
Have you ever struggled to reconcile difficult questions about climate change? Are you faced with naysayers who claim that the human impact on the biosphere is all a media fabrication or the workings of scheming Birkenstock-wearing extremists? Authored by a father-son team (a professor at Duke University and an attorney […]
