Canada's Environmental Voice
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 […]
Do you wonder why everyone doesn't use CF light bulbs? Does green energy's slow progress dumbfound you? Are you curious about why it's so difficult to get Canadians to adopt energy efficiency measures? To find out why, Alternatives Journal invited energy experts from government, academia, industry and science to join […]
Introduction 00 – 03m01s (dur: 3m01s) Editorial Overview: 02m54s – 08m12s (dur: 05m17s) "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" A Radio Play in Five Acts: 08m21s – 20m02s (dur: 11m41s) A Word From Our (we wish) Sponsor, Frog Pond Farm Winery: 20m11 – 24m41s (dur: 05m03s) Mark Winfield on Why Renewables Now […]
Intro: 00m00 – 03m04 Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director Stephen Hazell says that despite government inaction, Canada's environmental job market is growing 60 per cent faster than employment in the overall economy. (03m05 – 24m06, dur, 21m) Universal social income, guaranteed annual income, basic income guarantee, citizen's income – […]
Wayne Roberts' article in this issue of Alternatives is titled "Eat this Recession" and in it he describes an inventive plan for pulling ourselves up by our own economic bootstraps. He says that if three million Canadians shifted $100 from buying imported food to buying local food, the economic impetus […]
Introduction (20.82s – 02m01.54 / dur 1m40.72) Editorial Overview (02m07 – 20m36,882 / dur: 18m29.37) Nina Bailey Dick on how outdated (in her opinion) zoning rules almost shut down her Local Foods Buying Club (20m50s – 46m16s / dur. 25m26s) Jennifer Taylor on Masdar City, a planned model city of […]
If you are among the billions of people around the world who enjoy fish and other delicacies from the sea, this book is for you. Depending on which types of seafood you consume, you may be driving a species toward extinction, or contributing unknowingly to the destruction of coastal ecosystems […]
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, […]
Well-known musician Bob Wiseman entertained at Alternatives' celebratory launch of The New Ecology issue at the Princess Café on June 16/09. James Walker (The Road Dog Show) interviewed Wiseman at the SoundFM studio afterward. The engaging interview covers a lot of ground — the music industry then, now, seeing "then" […]
