Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Rethinking the Powers of Trade – Susan Wismer Building Communities to Limit Trade: Following the Example of Women’s Initiatives – Ellie Perkins Building strong communities depends heavily on economic roles often filled by women and on approaches that women have been foremost in expounding and exemplifying.Inset: Investing in Women […]
Editorial: Sharing and protecting the commons – Doug Baker Bucking the Free Market Economy: Using Land Trusts for Conservation and Community-Building – Steward Hilts and Peter MitchellInset: Merging the conservancy and community approaches to land trusts by Matt Wood Reclaiming Deserted Corridors: Rights of Way as Common Property Resources – […]
Editorial: Global Problems, government limits – Robert Gibson Beyond Rio?: The Evolution of International Environmental Law – Jutta Brunnee Protecting a Land Without a Country: The Antarctic Environmental Protocol – David S. Russell Forging a Link: Two Approaches to Integrating Trade and Environment – Laurie Henderson Canadian, World, Technology Notes
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 […]
Art is powerful. Art can both explain the world around us, and inspire people to care about it. Art & Media is an extension of our annual EcoBooks issue, featuring provocative and compelling visual art by the likes of Iain Baxter&, Broken City Lab, Cory Trépanier, Greg Euclide, Ed Schleimer […]
Like the landscape it aims to preserve, the inherent power of This Soil, This Water comes from returning to and lingering- in its open spaces, nourishing colours and stoic wisdom. Environmental issues and controversies are certainly plentiful in 2012, but few books take aim with such subtle effectiveness, leaving room […]
Have you ever struggled to reconcile difficult questions about climate change? Are you faced with naysayers who claim that the human impact on the biosphere is all a media fabrication or the workings of scheming Birkenstock-wearing extremists? Authored by a father-son team (a professor at Duke University and an attorney […]
Why is our food grown so far away from where we live? Why do we classify farms as rural and cities as urban? Carrot City dismantles the social constructs between these two halves of the same whole, and others: yards and gardens, industrial and agricultural practices, organic and conventional, producers […]
A great resource for understanding the possibilities of urban agriculture and international food security, Ladner situates food at the centre of many contemporary issues such as oil dependency, obesity, climate change and the loss of farmland. His argument is that by finding solutions to urban food issues, many of the […]
When I was asked to compare nature literature in Canada and the United States, particularly in the West, I quickly went for my bookshelves – only to discover that the lion’s share of my library was still far away, sequestered, like a lost collection of ancient Middle Eastern scrolls in […]
