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Wilderness Conflicts Alternatives Journal 15.3

Wilderness Conflicts 15.3

Editorial: Where the wild things are – Robert Gibson The Stein River: Wilderness, Culture and Human Survival – Michael M’Gonigle Roads to Nowhere: Incremental Access and the Shrinking Wilderness – Julian A. Dunster La Conservation de la Nature au Quebec – Jean-Luc Bourdages Wilderness in New Zealand – Colin Michael […]

Protesters and Ideologues Alternatives Journal 15.4

Protesters and Ideologues 15.4

Editorial: Politics doesn’t have to be this way – Ted Schrecker No Place to Go: Nuclear Waste in the United Kingdom – Andrew Blowers Seals, Wolves and Words: Loaded Language in Environmental Controversy – John Alan Lee Exploring the New Ecologies: Social Ecology, Deep Ecology and the Future of Green […]

Confronting Bureaucracy Alternatives Journal 14.2

Confronting Bureaucracy 14.2

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. […]

Work and Environment in a High Tech World Alternatives Journal 14.3-4

Work and Environment in a High Tech World 14.3-4

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 […]

Environmental Politics Alternatives Journal 13.1

Environmental Politics 13.1

Editorial: Ecology and democracy – Douglas Torgerson The Reluctant Party: Ideology versus Organization in Canada’s Green Movement – Vaughan Lyon Resisting Regulation: Environmental Policy and Corporate Power – Ted Schrecker Environmental Politics in Manitoba: Institutions, Issues, and Interests in the 1980s – Kenneth M. Gibbons

Environment and Development Alternatives Journal 12.3-4

Environment and Development 12.3-4

Editorial: Environment and development – Robert Gibson Environmental degradation and human conflict – John Tinker, Lloyd Timberlake and Renee Sabatier Women in development: a critique of mainstream models – Anita Anand Bhopal: a lesson for Canadian aid – Gary Gallon Development through conservation: the case of energy – William U. […]

Photo: Chris Zulinov Hurrican Katrina house rebuilding elevated

Those Brad Pitt Houses

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 […]

In With The Old

WINDOWS IN HISTORIC BUILDINGS are often a source of tension between the historic preservation movement and people who want to increase the energy efficiency of older buildings by replacing wooden windows with vinyl ones. To support its case, the preservation movement argues, “The greenest building is the one that is […]

Environmental Ethics Alternatives Journal 12.2

Environmental Ethics 12.2

Editorial: The Relevance of Ethics – Douglas Torgerson Moral Concern and the Ecosphere – John A. Livingston Moral Concern and Animals – Bernard E. Rollins The Canadian Harp Seal Hunt: A Moral Issue – L.W. Sumner Animal Suffering and the Ethics of Eating Meat – Robert E. Carter The Paradox […]

Soft Energy Alternatives Journal 12.1

Soft Energy 12.1

Editorial: Windmills: a revolutionary symbol – Robert Gibson Megaproject Mania: Round Two – Ted Schrecker A Soft Energy Path for Canada: Can it be Made to Work? – John Robinson ed. Water Conservation: the Untapped Solution – B.A. Benninger Guerilla Forestry: George Marek vs. the MNR – Trevor Wickham