Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Swimmable Beaches and Edible Fish – Donna M. Leith Sustainable Development and Water Resource Management – Barry Sadler Inset: The James Bay Hydroelectric Project by Fikret Berkes Remedial Action Plans: An Opportunity to Implement Sustainable Development at the Grassroots Level in the Great Lakes Basin – John H. Hartig […]
Editorial – Robert Paehlke and Sally Lerner Behaviour in the “Crunch” – Sally Lerner Relative Deprivation: when does it lead to Anger, Achievement or Disengagement – M. Mark and T. Cook The Canadian Case – Wilson Head Newspapers and the Coastal Oil Spill Hazard – Roger Needham Distributive Justice and […]
Art is powerful. Unlike science, which devotes itself to the refinement of analytical understanding, art has the capacity to go beyond hypothesis and fact to reveal something closer to emotional truth. Art can both explain the world around us, and inspire people to care about it.
The Economics of Limiting Energy Use – Michael A. Goldberg Position Paper on the James Bay Project – the James Bay Committee James Bay: further comment – Michael Sinclair The Future of Lake Louise – John Marsh Congressional Attitudes Toward the Environment – Michael E. Kraft Exchange on the Forest […]
The 1960s and 70s were milestone decades for environmental activity; they marked an era when the concept of ecology hit the radar of general public awareness for the first time. They also marked the birth of organizations like Pollution Probe, Greenpeace, the World Wildlife Fund, Environment Canada – and our […]
When reviewing a book, I mark it up mercilessly. I jot down notable points, create a list of possible quotes and scribble down potential themes that might shape my review. When my lists are long, jumbled and written in my fast, furious – and almost illegible – handwriting, it means […]
Professors Clapp and Dauvergne are among the few academics that recognize that the best approach to both analysis of and advocacy for environmental issues lies with political economy, or public policy designed by the application of economic concepts. Their book is a demonstration of that thesis, which they undertake by […]
A great resource for understanding the possibilities of urban agriculture and international food security, Ladner situates food at the centre of many contemporary issues such as oil dependency, obesity, climate change and the loss of farmland. His argument is that by finding solutions to urban food issues, many of the […]
RECENTLY LAUDED by the CBC as one of Anna Maria Tremonti’s “Game Changers,” Nicole Rycroft has been on an impassioned journey. Originally from Australia, this stalwart activist for environmental rights has gone from practising direct-action in blockades to sharing boardrooms with CEOs from some of Canada’s largest paper-consuming businesses.
IF YOU FIND YOURSELF saying, “There’s nothing in the newspaper these days,” you are undoubtedly correct. Large white and coloured voids are in, as are expansive photos with blank areas, such as a distraught goalie kneeling in a huge goal mouth adorned only with a missed soccer ball. In its […]
