Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Finding the path to a sustainable future – Robert Gibson International Trade and the Environment: An Environmental Assessment of Present GATT Negotiations – Steven Shrybman Local Economic Self-Reliance – Paul Ekins Defining a Sustainable Society: Values, Principles and Definitions – John Robinson, George Francis, Russel Legge and Sally Lerner
Editorial: Swimmable Beaches and Edible Fish – Donna M. Leith Sustainable Development and Water Resource Management – Barry Sadler Inset: The James Bay Hydroelectric Project by Fikret Berkes Remedial Action Plans: An Opportunity to Implement Sustainable Development at the Grassroots Level in the Great Lakes Basin – John H. Hartig […]
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 – […]
Editorial: Environmentalists, Meech Lake and other issues of purpose and strategy – Robert Gibson Organic Farming in India – Thomas L. Green Union-initiated Research in Genetic Effects of Workplace Agents: A Case Study – Karen Messing Fishing in Uncharted Waters: A Perspective on the Indian Fishing Agreements Dispute in Northern […]
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 […]
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
Hard Nose on the Soft Path I write with congratulations on a thought-provoking and introspective 40th Anniversary issue of Alternatives. I am concerned, however, by a potential stumbling block faced by the environmental movement that may have greatly stymied our progress: We’re quite a weak lot, aren’t we? From “soft” […]
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 […]
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 […]
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?
