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Editorial: Unity in Diversity – Robert Gibson Demanding Good Wood – Martin von MirbachSome current approaches to forest certification are of dubious merit, and even the best have significant limitations.Inset: Forest Stewardship Council: Principles of Forest ManagementInset: Canadian Council of Forest Ministers: Criteria and Critical ElementsInset: Pacific Certification Council: Principles
Editorial: Sharing and protecting the commons – Doug Baker Bucking the Free Market Economy: Using Land Trusts for Conservation and Community-Building – Steward Hilts and Peter MitchellInset: Merging the conservancy and community approaches to land trusts by Matt Wood Reclaiming Deserted Corridors: Rights of Way as Common Property Resources – […]
Editorial: Environmentalism in a no-growth economy – Robert Gibson Women and Sustainability: Ecofeminist Perspectives – Melody Hessing Time Waits for No Beast: Temporality and the Dis-integration of Nature – Mora Campbell The Cape Breton Island Spruce Budworm Infestation: A Retrospective Analysis – Charles Restino Canadian, World, Techonology Notes
AS THE ALTERNATIVES TEAM was finishing up this Green Buildings issue, we were also settling in to a new building ourselves. The former Public Utilities Building in the heart of downtown Kitchener, Ontario, is a three-storey stone beauty from the early 1930s, complete with Art Deco flourishes and an original […]
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 […]
A real-life A\J staff picnic in Victoria Park, a 2-minute walk away.
Robert Paehlke is a professor emeritus at Trent University where he taught environmental policy and politics for 35 years. About 40 years ago, he envisioned a magazine that was both scientifically sound and journalistically interesting, and Alternatives was born. “Bob P,” as we call him, sits on the magazine’s editorial board and […]
Rob Thacker is an astrophysicist, teacher, communicator and all round big kid. He is also an associate professor and Canada Research Chair in Computational Astrophysics at St. Mary’s University in Halifax. NASA’s proposed Terrestrial Planet Finder project would study planets beyond our solar system for important clues on the conditions […]
A policy and research analyst at an Ottawa-based environmental consultancy, Jeff Beyer focuses on climate change and sustainability strategies.
Is it better to retrofit existing buildings, or start with a clean slate? Our issue on Green Buildings looks at examples of each. Documentarian Stephen Svenson asks if Brad Pitt is truly “Making it Right” in New Orleans, while Alternatives photographer Brian St. Denis captures the new LEED-Platinum targeted Environment […]
