Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: A Constitution without the environment is like… – Robert Gibson The Environment in the Current Constitution – Judith Hanebury Inset: What is the Constitution of Canada? – Paul Muldoon Designing an Environmentally Responsible Constitution – Barbara Rutherford and Paul Muldoon Background Materials and Commentaries
Editorial: Time for a new package of ideas, icons and “isms” – J.G. Nelson Conservation Strategies: Providing the Vision for Sustainable Development – E.W. Manning Sea Changes, Sustainability and Strategies – Michael Kelly and Kim Sanderson Provincial Conservation Strategies: The Experience of Prince Edward Island – John B. McClellan
Editorial: Lighten up, eh – Eric Higgs and Robert Gibson Seven Ways to Bring Humour to Your Environmental Group – Charles Varon The Environmentalist as Dark Comedian – Peter Timmerman Debate Rages Over Shocking Half Human/Half Animal Babies – William M. Glenn Keeping up with the Joneses – Jeffrey Kohl […]
Editorial: Human and Environmental Contexts of Technological Change – Sally Lerner and Ted Schrecker The Uneasy Eighties: The Transition to an Information Society – Arthur J. Cordell A Union Course on New Technologies – Elaine Bernard A Labour Perspective: Finding Common Ground – Hugh Mackenzie Jobs and the Environment: Some […]
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 […]
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 […]
Editorial: Dispelling the image of the “blue-eyed sheiks” – Phil Elder, Bill Ross and Dixon Thompson Solar Activities in Alberta – Tang Lee Eulogy for STOP: A Decade of Environmental Activism – Linda Duncan Hazardous Waste Management: The Report and Recommendations of the Environmental Council of Alberta – John Lilley
It’s Not About Tupperware I have purchased Alternatives from time to time from my local health food store. I signed up for a subscription when I was at the Guelph Organic Conference in late January. I just received my first magazine, and happy to see all about building green.
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 […]
