Alternatives Journal articles from January 1997

Alternatives Journal archives from January 1997

Imagine no resources. (environmental movement)(Editorial)
January 1, 1997... As this issue is being put together, it has been 25 years since Alternatives began publishing in 1971. It has also been 25 years since Greenpeace was founded and most federal and provincial environment departments were created. Despite these...

Watchdog jut watches: environmental commission remains silent as NAFTA members deregulate. (Commission for Environmental Cooperation)
January 1, 1997... NAFTA's environmental watchdog is not challenging the wave of environmental deregulation occurring in Canada, the United States and Mexico since the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement. The Commission for Environmental...

Hybrid Turkeys love green office: new design pleases tenants with energy savings and health benefits. (environmentally sound Green on the Grand building)
January 1, 1997... Hybrid Turkeys Inc. is one of the tenants of the most environmentally sensitive office complexes in the country. Kitchener-Waterloo's Green on the Grand is Canada's first C-2000 building and, according to Hybrid Turkeys, it is a good example of...

That sinking feeling: do "artificial reefs" in BC waters increase biodiversity or waste? (British Columbia)
January 1, 1997... A British Columbia group that sinks decommissioned warships to increase undersea biodiversity and encourage diving tourism is being criticized by environmentalists who believe the practice wastes salvageable materials and introduces...

Writing it down and acting it up: green audits and community theatre help tenants get healthier housing.
January 1, 1997... In South Riverdale, Toronto, tenant activists are finding innovative ways to communicate the relationship between health and the home environment. The Don Mount Court Tenants' Association has made organized presentations to their landlord,...

Green on the screen. (environment-related information on the Internet and computer disks)
January 1, 1997... In 1995 Alternatives reported on recent happenings in progressive activism on the internet (21:3). More recently, E Magazine ran a cover story about the environmental movement going "online." It is by now obvious that networked computers are...

Three decades on the green beat. (environmental journalism)(includes related article on history of environmental history)(Cover Story)
January 1, 1997... For our 25th anniversary, we asked Canada's most prominent environment reporter to reflect on what the media have done and the prospects for effective environmental journalism in the years ahead. When I entered journalism in the 1960s, my dream...

Jock talk, goldfish, horse logging and Star Wars. (green public image of pulp mills)
January 1, 1997... How a pulp company communicates a green image [The media] may not always mold opinion, but they do not always have to. It is enough that they create opinion visibility, giving legitimacy to certain views and illegitimacy to others.(1)...

News and conflicts: how adversarial news frames limit public understanding of environmental issues.
January 1, 1997... Most of us learn about environmental issues through the news, rather than by direct experience. Because of this, the news media, in environmental affairs as in other areas of public concern, is a "pervasive political and cultural force."(1)...

Telling stories about places: local knowledge and narratives can improve decisions about the environment.
January 1, 1997... The woman is almost 70 now. She has lived in Hamilton, "the Steel City," for most of her life. These days, weather permitting, she walks down to the bayfront to look around. From the shore of the new Bayfront Park - or "Land-fill Park" - she can...

Winning Back the Words: Confronting Experts in an Environmental Public Hearing.
January 1, 1997... Reviewed by Cate Sandilands In the three years since Winning Back the Words was published, much has changed in the world of environmental public hearings. Where in 1993 many of us had the luxury to criticize the environmental impact assessment...

Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia.
January 1, 1997... Reviewed by mark meisner There are dozens of green reference books to choose from. They range from compact dictionaries with short definitions of key terms to multivolume, illustrated encyclopedias full of lengthy essays. They also vary from...

Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces: An Owner's Manual.
January 1, 1997... Reviewed by Maren Oelbermann In 1989 the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) launched a ten-year campaign to protect a network of Canada's natural regions. Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces is a report on the campaign's accomplishments, failures and...