Canada's Environmental Voice
Informed participation in open, accountable and effective governance: that’s a pretty good working definition of development. Governments have been using foreign aid for many purposes over the decades, and their first purpose is not always development or alleviation of poverty, as Ian Smillie points out in this issue of Alternatives. […]
Editorial: Green at Home LEEDing the Way – Guy DaunceyThe “Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design” rating system will inevitably foster greener buildings and more sustainable communities.Canada’s First LEED Gold – G.D. Greenville – Robert PaehlkeApplying green principles to buildings and urban planning is a sound long-term investment of public dollars.
Editorial: The Planet is What We Eat – Ray Tomalty Saving Seeds – Bob WildfongFarmers and gardeners are the best hope for protecting what remains of food plant diversity.Inset: Genetic Capital Is Being Eroded in Genebanks by Brenda InouyeInset: Old MacDonald Had a Farm by Jy ChiperzakInset: Heritage Seed Contacts […]
Editorial: Restoring What Was, Attacking What Is – Bob Gibson Beyond Repair – Donna HavingaEcological restoration is as much about transforming values and practices as about repairing damaged ecosystems.Inset: The Transformation of Sudbury by Nigel RichardsonInset: Restoration as Healing by Solomon Boyé
Editorial: Snow and goose feathers – Anne Champagne Literature and Environmental Thought: Re-establishing Connections With the World – Rebecca Raglon Inset: A Dream of Gaia – Bonnie Steinman Wordsworth as Environmentalist – Jenny Carter Community theatre builds the spirit of Eramosa – Susanna Reid
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
During his 21 years as a staff reporter at the Toronto Sun, David Kendall covered everything from rape n’ pillage to Mrs. Brown’s cockroach infestation. His current novel, Death Wish, is set mainly in Nauru, a place he visited in 2007.
“At some point, someone in America is going to have to make something.” These obvious yet perhaps revolutionary words come from Industrial Evolution, a wonderful new book by Lyle Estill, an entrepreneur, author, and, dare I say, environmental industrialist. The book’s premise reflects something that we all know but generally […]
When I was asked to compare nature literature in Canada and the United States, particularly in the West, I quickly went for my bookshelves – only to discover that the lion’s share of my library was still far away, sequestered, like a lost collection of ancient Middle Eastern scrolls in […]
Good photographs and good poetry have a great deal in common: They both offer lessons in seeing, placing their audience as if behind the lens or the pen, opening them to the world in a way not before realized. Catherine Owen’s book of poetry, Seeing Lessons, demonstrates the power of […]
