Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Stop, You’re Killing Me! – Ted Schrecker Concorde, Environment and Canadian Foreign Policy – Douglass Ross Breathing Can Be Injurious to your Health – Anne Forrest Air Quality and Income in Hamilton, Ontario – Femida Handy Labour, Environment and Community: 12 Ways to Start Working Together – Robert Paehlke
Editorial James Bay Update – Dorothy Rosenberg Public Involvement in Government Decisions – M. Rupert Cutler and Daniel A. Bronstein Development, Environment, Indians and the Southwest Power Controversy – Hanna J. Cortner Geographers and Northern Development: Some Social and Political Considerations – Peter J. Usher
A real-life A\J staff picnic in Victoria Park, a 2-minute walk away.
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 […]
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.
Take a glimpse into the interdisciplinary environmental degrees at Canadian universities – and check out the thriving green student movement across the nation.
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 […]
Society has always had a weakness for seers and prophets, those who claim the ability to travel mentally to that murky destination called the future and bring back lessons for today. But the next frontier is, of course, an unknowable place. Regardless of how attractive or compelling a vision of […]
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 […]
With the worldwide explosion of the Occupy movement, and related Indignado protests in Europe, renewed attention has focused on the possibility of a new high water mark in the push for social change. Each of these four books approaches issues of social change from different perspectives, all drawing from a […]
