Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Ecology and democracy – Douglas Torgerson The Reluctant Party: Ideology versus Organization in Canada’s Green Movement – Vaughan Lyon Resisting Regulation: Environmental Policy and Corporate Power – Ted Schrecker Environmental Politics in Manitoba: Institutions, Issues, and Interests in the 1980s – Kenneth M. Gibbons
Editorial: Saving the Great Lakes – Thomas Whillans The Great Lakes as a Touchstone for Canada-United States Relationships – Michael J. Donahue Use and Abuse, Conflict and Harmony: The Great Lakes Fishery in Transition – Thomas H. Whillans and Fikret Berkes Opposing Phosphorus and Nitrogen Trends in the Great Lake […]
Editorial: Environment and development – Robert Gibson Environmental degradation and human conflict – John Tinker, Lloyd Timberlake and Renee Sabatier Women in development: a critique of mainstream models – Anita Anand Bhopal: a lesson for Canadian aid – Gary Gallon Development through conservation: the case of energy – William U. […]
AS THE ALTERNATIVES TEAM was finishing up this Green Buildings issue, we were also settling in to a new building ourselves. The former Public Utilities Building in the heart of downtown Kitchener, Ontario, is a three-storey stone beauty from the early 1930s, complete with Art Deco flourishes and an original […]
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?
“I’M NOT THE KIND OF PERSON to say, ‘Look at this great space to share ideas in’,” admits André Roy, Dean of Environment at the University of Waterloo. “But this building is different.”
