Water Privateers – Tony ClarkeInternational trade agreements and loan conditions are pushing the privatization of public water systems around the world.Inset: Water Privatization Glossary – David A. McDonaldInset: GATS Threat – Karl Flecker Public Water – Ron CrawleyThe Canadian Union of Public Employees has been leading the fight against the privatization of […]

Editorial: What’s the Buzz? Living It Up – Deborah Curran & Ray TomaltyThe wide range of support for smart growth in Canada promises morelivable towns and cities. Smart Growth Principles – Linda Pim & Joel Ornoy Three Ways We Subsidize Sprawl – Enid Slack Don’t Touch My Property – Deborah Curran

Editorial: A Sacred Task Experimenting on Children – Kathleen CooperDespite the lessons from experience with lead in gasoline, Canadian regulators are only slowly adopting more precautionary approaches to environmental health threats involving children. Starting Off – Loren Vanderlindenmilk is still nature’s best infant food, but it is vulnerable to persistent contaminants.

Editorial: The Nature of Sex – Ray Tomalty Eros Unbound – Kimberly-Anne Ford and William HipwellErotic experience can deepen our connection to nature and liberate our life energies from the cycle of production and consumption. Falling for Niagara – Karen DubinskyWriters have long found the great falls an erotic source of inspiration.

Editorial: A Line Across the Board – Robert Gibson Diversity Over Solidarity – Robert GibsonWhat we have learned and where we have come in 30 years of eco-activism. Corporate Vulnerability Alternatives Journal interviews Naomi Klein.

Editorial: Brundtland and Beyond – Ray Tomalty The Power Elite – Stephen BockingThe Bakun Dam will flood 69,000 hectares of tropical forest, and displace thousands of people, to generate at great cost, electricity for which there is no immediate market..

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 […]

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 […]

Editorial: What’s the score after 20 years? – Robert Gibson Eco-History: Two Waves in the Evolution of Environmentalism – Robert PaehlkeInset: Regrets as hope Differences in Opinion: Round Tables, Policy Networks and the Failure of Canadian Environmental Strategy – Michael HowlettInset: Round tables taken with a grain of salt by […]

Editorial: Time for a new package of ideas, icons and “isms” – J.G. Nelson Conservation Strategies: Providing the Vision for Sustainable Development – E.W. Manning Sea Changes, Sustainability and Strategies – Michael Kelly and Kim Sanderson Provincial Conservation Strategies: The Experience of Prince Edward Island – John B. McClellan