Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Swimmable Beaches and Edible Fish – Donna M. Leith Sustainable Development and Water Resource Management – Barry Sadler Inset: The James Bay Hydroelectric Project by Fikret Berkes Remedial Action Plans: An Opportunity to Implement Sustainable Development at the Grassroots Level in the Great Lakes Basin – John H. Hartig […]
Editorial: The Problem of Bureaucracy – Douglas Torgerson Between the Rocks and Hard Places: Bureaucrats, the Law and Pollution Control – Kernaghan Webb Understanding Policy-making: A Necessary First Step for Environmentalists – Terrance J. Downey Fiscal Crisis, Environmental Protection and the State: A New Zealand Case Study – Frank J. […]
Editorial: Human and Environmental Contexts of Technological Change – Sally Lerner and Ted Schrecker The Uneasy Eighties: The Transition to an Information Society – Arthur J. Cordell A Union Course on New Technologies – Elaine Bernard A Labour Perspective: Finding Common Ground – Hugh Mackenzie Jobs and the Environment: Some […]
AS WE CROSSOVER the Claiborne Avenue bridge from the Upper Ninth Ward on Gray Line International’s “Hurricane Katrina – America’s Greatest Catastrophe” tour, local artist Brad Dupuy informs us in his rich voice that we “are about to enter what is known famously as the Lower Ninth Ward.” What makes […]
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 […]
Editorial: Beyond Neutrality – Douglas Torgerson Energy in the Yukon: A Soft Path for a Northern Territory – David Brooks, Margaret Oldfield and Tony Hodge Hydro Power on the Periphery: A Comparison of Newfoundland, Tasmania and the South Island – Peter Crabb Client Centered Community Impact Assessment – Frank Tester […]
It’s Not About Tupperware I have purchased Alternatives from time to time from my local health food store. I signed up for a subscription when I was at the Guelph Organic Conference in late January. I just received my first magazine, and happy to see all about building green.
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.
Editorial: Nuclear Power – Robert C. Paehlke The Real Limits to Growth – W.A. Ross Some Ways of Thinking About the Future – Janice Tait An Exchange of Views on Nuclear Power – C.A. Mawson, Lille d’Easum and Ted Schrecker Prairie Madness: The Garrison Diversion – Onno Kremers Cooperative Settlements […]
A real-life A\J staff picnic in Victoria Park, a 2-minute walk away.
