Alternatives Journal articles from January 1996

Alternatives Journal archives from January 1996

Rethinking the powers of trade. (international trade policy)(Editorial)
January 1, 1996... The invisible hand of the globalized marketplace is far from benign. It leaves human and environmental destruction behind in its clumsy grasping for power and profit. Those of us committed to creating a just, humane and environmentally robust...

Sun provides renewable energy alternatives for developing world.
January 1, 1996... More than 200,000 homes in developing countries now get their electricity from photovoltaic cells instead of conventional fossil fuel combustion, nuclear energy or large-scale hydro sources. The solar cell option, promoted by alternative energy...

Green options for investments. (includes related information on Canadian environmental mutual funds)
January 1, 1996... Environmentally conscious Canadian investors have long been in a quandary: how to ensure reasonable growth in a portfolio while being confident that investments are in environmentally responsible companies? Today such investment is made easier by...

Wildlife's best neighbour. (agricultural areas)
January 1, 1996... Delsa Espinoza Miranda sees herself as a good farmer, but for the past three decades she has gone against the grain of Costa Rican farming. Instead of clearing the land to grow crops, she planted trees. Thirty years ago, she was seen as a...

Building communities to limit trade. (includes related article on credit for women business owners)
January 1, 1996... INTERNATIONAL TRADE as we know it is not sustainable. While large-scale trade seems on the surface to have brought us important economies of scale, efficiencies and improvements in quality of life over the last several hundred years, it is almost...

Offsetting corporate trade: free trade, community development and alternative trade in the South Pacific. (includes related article on the meaning of trade)
January 1, 1996... On JANUARY 1, 1995, the new General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) came into effect and the World Trade Organization (WTO) began to operate. The Marrakesh Declaration, announcing the event, marked the conclusion of years of negotiation to...

Tracing the trail of Tomasita the tomato: popular education around globalization. (includes list of education centers and related article on imported tomatoes)
January 1, 1996... With the Canada-US "free trade" deal of the late 1980s and its more recent extension in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), community educators have been challenged to help people make sense of the phenomenon of "globalization".(1)...

Narrative Policy Analysis: Theory and Practice.
January 1, 1996... Emery Roe offers a creative approach to analyzing controversial public policy issues. A range of cases (although mostly American) are used to illustrate the major concepts and methods that can be applied in narrative policy analysis. The cases...

The State of the Environment in Southern Africa.
January 1, 1996... It is usually a lengthy and time consuming exercise to obtain an in-depth regional environmental perspective for Southern Africa and might even involve visiting individual states. This unique book goes a long way towards solving that problem. It...

Priority Environmental Issues in Asia: The Need and Importance of Developing Cooperative Approaches.
January 1, 1996... (Available from the Impact Assessment Centre, Carleton University, Room 206, Social Sciences Research Building, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, Ont. KIS 5B6, $45.00 plus GST and handling) Very soon after the International Association for Impact...

Nature as Landscape: Dwelling and Understanding.
January 1, 1996... I am always encouraged by books and articles that embrace alternative philosophies, especially phenomenology, and espouse the implications of adopting such philosophies for how we see the world and our interactions with it. In this book, Kraft...

Forestopia: A Practical Guide to the New Forest Economy.
January 1, 1996... Canadian forest management practice, as seen by its critics within the forest industry, government and the environmental movement is not sustainable. The ability of both the forest and forest-dependent industry to survive is in doubt. Change to...