Editorial: Imagine No Resources – Mark Meisner Jock Talk, Goldfish, Horse Logging and Star Wars – Joan Sherman and Michael GismondiAn Alberta pulp company uses a variety of slick communications tools to establish a green image.
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The Greening: Celebrating 20 Years of Citizen Participation 19.1
Editorial: What’s the score after 20 years? – Robert Gibson Eco-History: Two Waves in the Evolution of Environmentalism – Robert PaehlkeInset: Regrets as hope Differences in Opinion: Round Tables, Policy Networks and the Failure of Canadian Environmental Strategy – Michael HowlettInset: Round tables taken with a grain of salt by […]
Eating Up
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.
Great $aves
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?
Bright Ideas Incubator
“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.”
The New Normal
ENERMODAL ENGINEERING is Canada’s largest consulting firm exclusively dedicated to creating green buildings and communities. The company recently celebrated its 100th LEED-certified building, and its president and founder Stephen Carpenter was named a LEED fellow. He spoke with Alternatives’ podcaster Mark Brooks. Mark Brooks: What exactly is LEED certification?
Get More Mileage From Your Home
MOST PEOPLE WOULDN’T buy a car without knowing its fuel economy, or sign up for a cellphone plan without comparing service-provider rates. Yet when it comes to one of life’s biggest investments – purchasing a home – few people question how much it will cost to operate that house over […]
Peter Love
Adjunct professor at York University’s Faculty of Environmental Studies, Peter Love is also president of the Energy Services Association of Canada, and was Ontario’s Chief Energy Conservation Officer.
David B. Brooks
David B. Brooks is a natural-resource economist and a member of Alternatives’ editorial board. He was a founding director of Canada’s Office of Energy Conservation, director of the Ottawa Office of Energy Probe, and, for the last 14 years of his formal professional career, associate director for environment and natural resource studies […]
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