Canada's Environmental Voice
THE FEDERAL ELECTION is kicking into high gear as this issue goes to press. It’s too early to predict which party will form the next government, but regardless of who ends up living at 24 Sussex Drive, there is an abundance of environmental lessons that our future prime minister can […]
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art,
BACK IN 1971, the founders of this publication called it Alternatives. Bob Paehlke, who played a big role in the conception, says the idea was to explore better options for a blindly pro-consumption and pro-growth-at-all-costs society in which almost no one was thinking about the long term.
Editorial: Greening Our Communities – Mark Roseland Greening the City: The Ecological and Human Dimensions of the City Can Be Part of Town Planning – Peter Newman Making our cities more liveable entails making them both greener and more convivial, an opportunity to revitalize a rich tradition from the pre […]
Editorial: A Constitution without the environment is like… – Robert Gibson The Environment in the Current Constitution – Judith Hanebury Inset: What is the Constitution of Canada? – Paul Muldoon Designing an Environmentally Responsible Constitution – Barbara Rutherford and Paul Muldoon Background Materials and Commentaries
Editorial: Time for a new package of ideas, icons and “isms” – J.G. Nelson Conservation Strategies: Providing the Vision for Sustainable Development – E.W. Manning Sea Changes, Sustainability and Strategies – Michael Kelly and Kim Sanderson Provincial Conservation Strategies: The Experience of Prince Edward Island – John B. McClellan
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 […]
In his engaging and practical book Development Without Destruction: The UN and Global Resource Management, Nico Schrijver shows how the UN developed into a hub for natural resource management by default, not by design. As this comprehensive contribution to the UN Intellectual History Project series recounts, the Charter of the United […]
You don’t often come across a book of innocent-looking doodles that has the power to make you reflect on the deeper meaning of life. Kate Bingaman-Burt’s Obsessive Consumption does just that.
