Search Results for "land"

Green Humour: Laugh or Die Alternatives Journal 16.2

Green Humour: Laugh or Die 16.2

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 […]

Is Sustainability Possible Without Equity? Alternatives Journal 16.3

Is Sustainability Possible Without Equity? 16.3

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 – […]

Wilderness Conflicts Alternatives Journal 15.3

Wilderness Conflicts 15.3

Editorial: Where the wild things are – Robert Gibson The Stein River: Wilderness, Culture and Human Survival – Michael M’Gonigle Roads to Nowhere: Incremental Access and the Shrinking Wilderness – Julian A. Dunster La Conservation de la Nature au Quebec – Jean-Luc Bourdages Wilderness in New Zealand – Colin Michael […]

Sustainable Development in Northern Communities Alternatives Journal 14.1

Sustainable Development in Northern Communities 14.1

Editorial: Northern Communities: Prospects for Sustainable Development – Ted Jackson Indigenous Management Systems and the Conservation of Wildlife in the Canadian North – Peter J. Usher Dene Community Development: Lessons from the Norman Wells Project – Margaret Gorman Women and Development in Northern Ontario – Miriam Wall

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. […]

Letters to the Editor: 38.2

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” […]

Eating Up

THE QUESTION made a great conversation starter on its own: Can a grand dinner party bringing together the right people spark a conversation that could change the world? Last November, World Accord International Development Agency in Waterloo, Ontario, decided to find out.

Photo: Chris Zulinov Hurrican Katrina house rebuilding elevated

Those Brad Pitt Houses

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 […]

In With The Old

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 […]

Great $aves

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?