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Just Visiting 28.4

Just Visiting 28.4

Editorial: Environmental Baggage Gorilla Tourism – Greg RingerUganda uses tourism to recover from decades of violent conflict.Inset: Recipe for Ape Conservation – Kelly Loverock Left In Its Wake – Ross A. KleinThe cruise industry favours a voluntary approach to environmental responsibility, but has performed badly where tough regulatory controls are not in […]

Community Economic Development Alternatives Journal 22.1

Community Economic Development and Trade 22.1

Editorial: Rethinking the Powers of Trade – Susan Wismer Building Communities to Limit Trade: Following the Example of Women’s Initiatives – Ellie Perkins Building strong communities depends heavily on economic roles often filled by women and on approaches that women have been foremost in expounding and exemplifying.Inset: Investing in Women […]

Making Sense of the Ecosystem Approach Alternatives Journal 20.3

Making Sense of the Ecosystem Approach 20.3

Note: This issue is available as a PDF only. Instead of receiving a copy in the mail, you will be emailed a link to download it. Editorial: The end of the world as we know it – Robert Gibson Visions of Nature and Society: A History of the Ecosystem Concept […]

What Would A Sustainable Future Look Like? Alternatives Journal 17.2

What Would A Sustainable Future Look Like? 17.2

Editorial: Finding the path to a sustainable future – Robert Gibson International Trade and the Environment: An Environmental Assessment of Present GATT Negotiations – Steven Shrybman Local Economic Self-Reliance – Paul Ekins Defining a Sustainable Society: Values, Principles and Definitions – John Robinson, George Francis, Russel Legge and Sally Lerner

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 5.3-4

Food and Shelter; Country and City 5.3-4

Editorial: Food and Shelter: Country and City – Robert Paehlke Environmentally Appropriate Housing – Ron Argue and Bruce McCallum Solar Homes: An Olde Idea Revisited – Robert K. Swartman Sunshine Sketches for a New Suburbia – Christine Swartman In Praise of Canada’s Older Buildings – George Galt, Marc Denhez and […]

Mark Meisner

Mark Meisner teaches environmental studies at SUNY-ESF. He directs the Environmental Communication Network, and blogs about environmental communication and culture at indications.wordpress.com.    

David Kendall

During his 21 years as a staff reporter at the Toronto Sun, David Kendall covered everything from rape n’ pillage to Mrs. Brown’s cockroach infestation. His current novel, Death Wish, is set mainly in Nauru, a place he visited in 2007.

Climate, Culture, Change book review A\J AlternativesJournal.ca

Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North

There is no denying the unique vantage point of Timothy Leduc’s new book, Climate, Culture, Change: Inuit and Western Dialogues with a Warming North. Your first clue is right there in the subtitle: that’s dialogues with, not about, Canada’s northern ecology.