Canada's Environmental Voice
Legal Weapons for Environmental Quality – David Estrin People or Planes? – Sandra C. Budden Scientists, Engineers and Urban Problem Solving: The New Systems Mass Transit Experience – David Lawrence Oil Rush: Oil, Ice and Haste Don’t Mix – Michael Sinclair Of Commoner and the Commons – Tee L. Guidotti […]
Power and the Liberation of Nature: The politics of Ecology – Henry Steck Canada, The United States, and the Environment: The Third Alternative – Geoff Mains A Hint from the Past – R. K. Vastokas The Environmental Impact of Economic Activity: a multidisciplinary view – Peter Victor Sound the Sirens: […]
Bruce Lourie has 25 years of policy expertise in energy, forest conservation and toxic pollution.
If Herman Daly is the economist for sustainable development, Amory Lovins the physicist and Al Gore the politician, William Ophuls must be the philosopher. Ophuls’ first book on the subject, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (1997), placed him among the few scholars of the time (Rifkin and Daly in […]
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 […]
Like the landscape it aims to preserve, the inherent power of This Soil, This Water comes from returning to and lingering- in its open spaces, nourishing colours and stoic wisdom. Environmental issues and controversies are certainly plentiful in 2012, but few books take aim with such subtle effectiveness, leaving room […]
Those of us who believe that humans are causing global warming may not notice the growing body of sophisticated denial literature. Al Gore’s recent essay in Rolling Stone Magazine lays out the depressing tale of disinformation and ideologically shielded ignorance that is currently unfolding in the US. “In one corner […]
Interview with Nicola Ross (Alternatives editor-in-chief) on Alternatives' 40th anniversary special issue. (8:15) Interview with founding editor Bob Paehlke discussing past 40 years of Alternatives. (12:40) Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk discusses declining energy return on investment and pine beetles. (20:53) Ken Ogilvie on Pollution Probe and the evolution of the environmental […]
Considering our vast cultural and political differences, is it really possible to collectively solve the world’s social, economic and environmental problems? And more importantly, if so, how do we formalize our commitments to change without an overarching global government?
David R. Boyd is one of Canada’s leading environmental lawyers, an expert in the field of human health and the environment, and a Trudeau scholar at the University of British Columbia. Boyd draws on this expertise in writing Dodging the Toxic Bullet: How to Protect Yourself from Everyday Environmental Hazards, in […]
