Canada's Environmental Voice
Editorial: Canada, Nickel and the World’s Non-renewable Resources – Robert Paehlke The Meaning of the North in Canada – Bruce Hodgins and Jamie Benedickson Sudbury, Nickel and Inco: Early History – Jamie Benedickson An Alternatives Interview with Elie Martel, MPP Atmospheric Composition and Precipitation of the Sudbury Region – J. […]
Editorial: Energy and Power – Robert C. Paehlke It’s Not Too Late: Yet – C. G. Morley The Political Metaphors of Environmental Control – Walter Goldstein For a National Energy Policy – Sanford Osler Energy Conservation – Brian Kelly A Scenario for Nova Scotia’s Future – W. J. Smith, G. […]
Editorial: Decentralization, Environment and Community – Robert C. Paehlke Intermediate Scale Technology – Wes Swift Post-Scarcity Anarchism – Murray Bookchin MRIECLSS (Matter Recycling Income Energy Consuming Life Support System for a Village-Sized Community) – Mike Nickerson Energy Technology on the Village Scale – Wesley Swift
Legal Weapons for Environmental Quality – David Estrin People or Planes? – Sandra C. Budden Scientists, Engineers and Urban Problem Solving: The New Systems Mass Transit Experience – David Lawrence Oil Rush: Oil, Ice and Haste Don’t Mix – Michael Sinclair Of Commoner and the Commons – Tee L. Guidotti […]
Power and the Liberation of Nature: The politics of Ecology – Henry Steck Canada, The United States, and the Environment: The Third Alternative – Geoff Mains A Hint from the Past – R. K. Vastokas The Environmental Impact of Economic Activity: a multidisciplinary view – Peter Victor Sound the Sirens: […]
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Daryn Caister of the Green Majority interviews Joe Pavelka on ecotourism in Peru and more broadly (4:00) Emily Slofstra and Dan Kellar discuss how to be a better ecotourist on Grand River Radical Radio (27:03) Emily Slofstra reads Andrew Nikiforuk’s column: The Vision of Frederick Soddy (35:07)
Is it better to retrofit existing buildings, or start with a clean slate? Our issue on Green Buildings looks at examples of each. Documentarian Stephen Svenson asks if Brad Pitt is truly “Making it Right” in New Orleans, while Alternatives photographer Brian St. Denis captures the new LEED-Platinum targeted Environment […]
Take a glimpse into the interdisciplinary environmental degrees at Canadian universities – and check out the thriving green student movement across the nation.
If Herman Daly is the economist for sustainable development, Amory Lovins the physicist and Al Gore the politician, William Ophuls must be the philosopher. Ophuls’ first book on the subject, Ecology and the Politics of Scarcity (1997), placed him among the few scholars of the time (Rifkin and Daly in […]
