Canada's Environmental Voice
Thomas Pawlick's new book "the War in the Country: How the Fight to save Rural Life will shape our Future" is a rip snorting, page turner filled with intrigue, violence, deception, and greed. (And you thought environmental non-fiction was dry and boring. ) In it Pawlick recounts, with evident dismay, […]
University of Waterloo PhD student Kyrke Gaudreau interviewed five of Canada's leading environmental experts on the future of energy in Canada. The participants were these well known names: William Rees, Marc Jaccard, Robert Page, Ian Rowlands and Roydon Fraser. Conveniently he pieced together the hours of responses into a play […]
Part of me cringed at the thought of reading yet more tales of humanity’s inclination to extinguish and diminish other life forms. It’s a reaction, I discovered after a quick survey of colleagues, I am not alone in experiencing when confronted with titles such as Silence of the Songbirds and […]
An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in Canada is the perfect book for university or even high-school students who want to understand the basic language of environmental debate. From an outline of environmental protection regimes to endangered species issues and environmental assessment, this text covers a diverse range of themes, […]
Of all the possible definitions of a garden, I like Don Gayton’s best: “A garden is a gift, a celebration and a revelation.” Gayton’s idea applies equally well to his own efforts, as an ecologist landscaping his suburban yard, as to the more political and activist agenda of guerrilla gardener […]
We don’t often compare a city with a beehive. According to Marilyn Hamilton, however, perhaps we should. In her book Integral City, Hamilton presents a radical new framework that can be used to design and regenerate the spaces in which we live. Her approach involves a view of city planning […]
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 […]
It isn’t easy being green. There’s the guilt that comes with every plastic bag or paper napkin tossed, with each imported peach eaten, every jar of face cream or new pair of shoes bought. There’s the confusion of recycling and reusing, of figuring out what to do with those used […]
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. […]
