Canada's Environmental Voice
Sick of high fuel costs? Sickened by the damage transportation is doing to our environment? In theory biofuels — ethanol, biodiesel, etc. — might provide relief on both these fronts. But theory aside, is it really practical? For four years Blake O'Brien ran his 1985 diesel Mercedes Benz "beater" (his […]
Conversation with Nicola Ross, Executive Editor of Alternatives Journal, on the Biofuels issue. (18m05s)
Nauru is a teeny speck of an island in the middle of the Southpacific. Once a bountiful habitat for 1,000 residents, in the past 150 years Nauru has been reduced to a lunar landscape of rubble. Novelist David Kendall tells the whipsaw tale of greed and shortsightedness, how phosphates made […]
Peter Andree's article starts out: "While 100-mile dieters provide a ray of hope, small-scale farmers the world over continue to face intense pressures, and many are still forced out of farming each year. In response, we need to think carefully about our aspirations for the 21st Century food system." In […]
Alternatives readers voted Small is Beautiful one of the four "must haves" for any environmentalist's bookshelf. But is the catch-phrase EF Schumacher coined back in 1973 still valid? Alternatives Executive Editor Nicola Ross takes time out from the Alternatives holiday bash to give us an Editorial Overview of the latest […]
Cimate change, climate forcing, global warming – all these terms frame a collective public debate about the future of the world as we know it. Since that “world” is dynamic and geographically diverse, it is not surprising that political responses range widely from hand-wringing to commitment and resignation, to disbelief […]
Imitation, they say, is the sincerest form of flattery, and in this podcast we feature some environmental ideas from around the world that our contributors think we'd do well to replicate here in Canada. Alternatives' Executive Editor Nicola Ross gives us a preview of the print version of the magazine. […]
The environmental bandwagon is a pretty crowded place these days. And consumers appear finally willing to choose and pay more for environmentally sound products. Not surprising then that if you pick up any glossy magazine, you'll notice a startling number of advertisements touting the green benefits of products and services. So what […]
Sustainability – what is it, why is it important, how are we doing achieving it?
This inaugural episode of the AJ Podcast explores in more depth several of the feature articles from the June 2008 "Saving the Land that Feeds Us" issue.
