The following is an abridged version of an interview with Sarah Harmer. To hear the full interview, listen to Rocking the Environment podcast! Nicola Ross: How was the Niagara Escarpment part of your childhood?
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Hér á ég heima (Here is my home)
WHEN BJÖRK CRITICIZED Magma Energy Corp. chairman and CEO Ross Beaty in an interview with Maclean’s in November 2010, the Icelandic pop singer couldn’t have struck a deeper chord. Maclean’s subsequently pulled the interview from the internet after Magma threatened the Canadian magazine with a libel suit.
Do As I Do, Not As I Sing
IN THE MID-1990s, a Melbourne band called TISM roared up Australia’s alternative-music charts.
The Power & The Glory
IT WAS LIKE AN ALTAR CALL. I had just finished a conference presentation on organic agriculture when a tall, hale fellow in his late 30s bounded down to the front of the auditorium. He wanted to tell his story about how organic food had saved his life. He recounted how […]
Editorial: In the Key of G
DESPITE ALL THE YEARS I’ve worked in the not-for-profit sector, our current fundraising drive is the first time that I’ve been up close and personal with a program involving individual donors. It’s been a humbling experience. Looking through the list of donors, some of whom I know, but most with […]
Editorial: Rethinking Energy
IN THE FIVE YEARS I’ve spent as editor of Alternatives, nothing has been as controversial as the Suncor Energy advertorials that have been running in the magazine. Many of you have taken advantage of the opportunity to read the opinions of Gord Lambert, this tar-sands company’s vice president of sustainability. […]
The Beetle’s Wake
We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we use it with love and respect.– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac
All Sizzle, No Stake
LAST JUNE, I returned to Banff National Park after a long absence. It was good to be back. Banff, Canada’s first and most famous national park, is an important part of my home range. My daughter was born in Banff ’s Mineral Springs Hospital, her birth witnessed by a herd […]
Letters to the Editor: 38.1
It’s About My Perverse City Book Re: Ray Tomalty’s review of Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy and Urban Sprawl, Alternatives, 37:6.
The Evolution of Theory
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