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Green Communities Alternatives Journal 22.2

Green Communities 22.2

Editorial: Greening Our Communities – Mark Roseland Greening the City: The Ecological and Human Dimensions of the City Can Be Part of Town Planning – Peter Newman Making our cities more liveable entails making them both greener and more convivial, an opportunity to revitalize a rich tradition from the pre […]

Green Taxes Alternatives Journal 22.3

Green Taxes 22.3

Editorial: The Spirit of Critical Dialogue – Cate Sandilands Beer Cans, Gas Guzzlers and Green Taxes: How Using Tax Instead of Law May Affect Environmental Policy – Doug Macdonald Why was the Ontario government willing to impose a green tax on beer cans, but not on gasoline?Inset: A Primer on […]

Diamonds Aren't Forever Alternatives Journal 22.4

Diamonds Aren’t Forever 22.4

Editorial: Punching Dummies in the North – Bob Gibson The Nasty Game – Susan Wismer In the rush to mine Canada’s North for diamonds and minerals, native voices are being ignored and the environmental assessment process is failing.Inset: A Chronology of the BHP Diamond Mining Environmental Assessment by Susan Wismer […]

Reflections on Ecofeminism Alternatives Journal 21.2

Reflections on Ecofeminism 21.2

Editorials: Building Bridges, Tearing Down Walls – Sue Hendler and Tzeporah Berman Walking the Line: Facing the Complexities of the Woman-Nature Link – Sarah HutchesonInset: Initiatives in feminism, environmentalism and action by Dorothy Goldin Rosenberg Making the Links: Why Bioregionalism Needs Ecofeminism – Michelle Summer Fike and Sarah Kerr Ecofeminist […]

Competing Perceptions Alternatives Journal 21.3

Competing Perceptions 21.3

Editorial: Exploring Human Knowledge and Perception – Catriona Sandilands The Experts Disagree: A Simple Matter of Facts Versus Values? – Christina ChociolkoInset: Experts, counter – experts and alternative understandings in the Alpac caseInset: Experts disagree about transmissions line health risks Turning Rivals into Allies: Understanding the Wise Use Movement – […]

Citizen Activism: Looking Inside the Environmental Movement Alternatives Journal

Citizen Activism: Looking Inside the Environmental Movement 20.2

Editorial: Citizen Activism and the quest for sustainability – Don Alexander Local Stewardship: Training Ground for an Environmental Vanguard – Sally LernerInset: Top-down meets bottom-up down under by Anna Carr Heeding Rachel Carson’s Call: Reflections of a Home-Making Eco-Crusader – Helen MacDonald Expanding Worldviews: Social Movement Backgrounds Bring a Deeper […]

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 […]

Regulatory Initiatives and the Environment Alternatives Journal 20.4

Regulatory Initiatives and the Environment 20.4

Editorial: At the limits of the regulated market – by Robert Gibson Keeping the Zero in Zero Discharge: Phasing Out Persistent Toxic Substances in the Great Lakes Basin – Paul Muldoon and John Jackson Subtle Effects: Requiring Economic Assessments in the Environmental Choice Programme – David S. Cohen

Cooperative Approaches to Resource Stewardship Alternatives Journal 19.3

Cooperative Approaches to Resource Stewardship 19.3

Editorial: Sharing and protecting the commons – Doug Baker Bucking the Free Market Economy: Using Land Trusts for Conservation and Community-Building – Steward Hilts and Peter MitchellInset: Merging the conservancy and community approaches to land trusts by Matt Wood Reclaiming Deserted Corridors: Rights of Way as Common Property Resources – […]