Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Finding the path to a sustainable future – Robert Gibson International Trade and the Environment: An Environmental Assessment of Present GATT Negotiations – Steven Shrybman Local Economic Self-Reliance – Paul Ekins Defining a Sustainable Society: Values, Principles and Definitions – John Robinson, George Francis, Russel Legge and Sally Lerner
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: Environmentalists, Meech Lake and other issues of purpose and strategy – Robert Gibson Organic Farming in India – Thomas L. Green Union-initiated Research in Genetic Effects of Workplace Agents: A Case Study – Karen Messing Fishing in Uncharted Waters: A Perspective on the Indian Fishing Agreements Dispute in Northern […]
Editorial: Stumbling through the semi-darkness – Robert Gibson Science in the Courtroom: The Value of an Adversarial System – Stuart Smith Science and the Tribunal: Dealing with Scientific Evidence in the Adversarial Arena – Michael Jeffrey The Fight for an Environmental Bill of Rights: Legislating Public Involvement in Environmental Decision […]
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 […]
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” […]
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.
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 […]
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?
