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Confronting Bureaucracy Alternatives Journal 14.2

Confronting Bureaucracy 14.2

Editorial: The Problem of Bureaucracy – Douglas Torgerson Between the Rocks and Hard Places: Bureaucrats, the Law and Pollution Control – Kernaghan Webb Understanding Policy-making: A Necessary First Step for Environmentalists – Terrance J. Downey Fiscal Crisis, Environmental Protection and the State: A New Zealand Case Study – Frank J. […]

Environmental Politics Alternatives Journal 13.1

Environmental Politics 13.1

Editorial: Ecology and democracy – Douglas Torgerson The Reluctant Party: Ideology versus Organization in Canada’s Green Movement – Vaughan Lyon Resisting Regulation: Environmental Policy and Corporate Power – Ted Schrecker Environmental Politics in Manitoba: Institutions, Issues, and Interests in the 1980s – Kenneth M. Gibbons

Occupational Health Alternatives Journal 11.3-4

Occupational Health 11.3-4

Editorial: Labour and Environmentalists: A Timely Alliance – Robert Paehlke WOSH: Fighting for Occupational Health and Safety in a Time of Economic Crisis – Leonard W. Wallace and John M. Shields Class Conflict, Technology and Health: The Hidden Agenda of “Risk Management” – Ted Schrecker Medical Monitoring: Occupational Health and […]

Who Pays Scientists? Alternatives Journal 8.1

Who Pays Scientists? 8.1

Editorial – Robert C. Paehlke Ecological Crisis and the Autonomy of Science in Capitalist Society: a Canadian Case Study – David W. Livingstone and Richard V. Mason Manitoulin South Shore – James L. Hodgins The Transition to Renewable Resource Societies and the end of “Flat Earth Economics” – Hazel Henderson […]

Summer 1974 Alternatives Journal 3.4

Summer 1974 3.4

Editorial – Robert C. Paehlke Environmental Crisis and the Artistic Invasion – Ronald Rees Wilderness and Culture – Wayland Drew Syncrude or Socialism? – Larry Pratt Utilizing Canadian Natural Resources – Eric Kierans Ecology as Ideology – James A. Harding Social Costs of Technological Progress – John M. Raftery

Autumn 1974 Alternatives Journal 4.1

Autumn 1974 4.1

Editorial James Bay Update – Dorothy Rosenberg Public Involvement in Government Decisions – M. Rupert Cutler and Daniel A. Bronstein Development, Environment, Indians and the Southwest Power Controversy – Hanna J. Cortner Geographers and Northern Development: Some Social and Political Considerations – Peter J. Usher

Margaret Webb

Margaret Webb is the author of Apples to Oysters: A Food Lover's Tour of Canadian Farms, which won silver at the 2009 National Culinary Book Awards, and wrote the 2009 Toronto Star feature series, "Crisis on the Farm."

This Soil, This Water book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

This Soil, This Water

Like the landscape it aims to preserve, the inherent power of This Soil, This Water comes from returning to and lingering- in its open spaces, nourishing colours and stoic wisdom. Environmental issues and controversies are certainly plentiful in 2012, but few books take aim with such subtle effectiveness, leaving room […]

The False Promise of Green Energy book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Truth, Lies and Denial

Those of us who believe that humans are causing global warming may not notice the growing body of sophisticated denial literature. Al Gore’s recent essay in Rolling Stone Magazine lays out the depressing tale of disinformation and ideologically shielded ignorance that is currently unfolding in the US. “In one corner […]

Climate, Culture, Change book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North

There is no denying the unique vantage point of Timothy Leduc’s new book, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North. Your first clue is right there in the subtitle: that’s dialogues with, not about, Canada’s northern ecology.