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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 […]

Alternatives Journal 7.2

Winter 1978 7.2

Editorial: A Question of Poisoning – Ted Schrecker Mercury and Kepone: Two Killers on Two Continents – Reiko Watanuki Notes from the Territories: Arsenic Poisoning – Lloyd Tataryn Notes from Thunder Bay: Asbestos in the Water – James Harding The Wild Creatures, the Native People, and Us: Canadian Literary-Ecological Relationships […]

Summer 1977 Alternatives Journal 6.4

Summer 1977 6.4

Editorial: Energy: Many Battles to Go – Ted Schrecker The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline: A Battle, Not A War – David B. Brooks A Summer of Decision: Pipelines and Pipedreams – Robert Page Reader Information Service Resource Development in Labrador – Lucie Edwards Carter Bay: Las Vegas of the North? – […]

Alternatives Journal 7.1

Nuclear Energy 7.1

Editorial: Toward the Conserver Society – Ted Schrecker Energy Paths for Canada – W.A Ross From Dream to Nightmare: The Historical Origins of Canada’s Nuclear Electric Future – Doug Torgerson The Atom Bomb is Twenty-Five This Year – John Brunner People…and Other Hazards of Nuclear Technology – Ralph Torrie

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Editorial: Art Intimates Life

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.

Art & Media 38.3

Art & Media 38.3

Art is powerful. Art can both explain the world around us, and inspire people to care about it. Art & Media is an extension of our annual EcoBooks issue, featuring provocative and compelling visual art by the likes of Iain Baxter&, Broken City Lab, Cory Trépanier, Greg Euclide, Ed Schleimer […]

Stephanie Grylls

Stephanie Grylls is the president of Nutrition Naturally, where she helps people understand the connection between food,health and the environment.

Ellen Desjardins

Co-chair of the Waterloo Region Food Systems Roundtable, Ellen Desjardins writes extensively about food security issues. Her current research explores how people respond to a changing food environment. 

Help Wanted

RON PORTELLI RECALLS when his university-bound daughter asked him where she should study environmental science. Despite a long environmental career, Portelli was surprised to realize he didn’t know the answer. Such was the separation between universities and the environment industry.