Alternatives Journal articles from March 1997

Alternatives Journal archives from March 1997

Province has no excuse. (carbon dioxide emissions in Ontario)
March 22, 1997... A study by the Ontario C[O.sub.2] Collaborative has shown that the province has no economic grounds for failing to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Ontario could cut costs for consumers while reducing the province's carbon dioxide (C[O.sub.2])...

The pits. (Huckleberry copper mine project in British Columbia)
March 22, 1997... BC's Huckleberry mine raises more concerns about flaws in the environmental assessment process, and conflicts of interest in government 570 clear-cut hectares. 90 million tonnes of mine tailings. 70 million tonnes of waste rock. Possible metal...

Gathering steam. (industrial ecology promotion in Canada)
March 22, 1997... Eco-industrial parks exchange waste for efficiency and profit Industrial ecology is being touted by many to be the industrial waste management strategy of the future. The term "industrial ecology" was coined in 1989 to refer to a model of...

Political warming. (Second Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention conference in July 1996)
March 22, 1997... The Geneva Climate Change Conference offers limited hope for reducing greenhouse gas emissions The Second Conference of the Parties to the Climate Change Convention, held in Geneva in July 1996, was the international community's annual...

Scariest thing about climate change: climate flips.
March 22, 1997... Much of the climate change debate so far has rested on the comfortable assumption that with increased concentrations of greenhouse gases, global average temperatures will rise slowly over decades, perhaps even over a century. The expected...

Temagami diary. (exploitation of the Temagami lands in Ontario)
March 22, 1997... PROLOGUE Temagami is N'Daki Menan to the Teme-Augama Anishnabai peoples who hunted and canoed through the wild lands and deep waters of the area. Larger than Prince Edward Island, the 6700 square kilo metres of Temagami contain much of what...

Daishowa tries to gag critics. (Daishowa Inc.'s request for a court order against public criticism)
March 22, 1997... Multinational Monitor named Daishowa one of the "Ten Worst Corporations of 1996," calling it "rotten to the core" for its attempts to silence Canadian citizens who are critical of its activities. In an unprecedented legal manoeuvre, Daishowa...

The power elite. (revival of the Bakun Dam project in Malaysia)(Cover Story)
March 22, 1997... The politics and ecology in building Malaysia's Bakun Dam There was much relief in June 1990 when Prime Minister Datuk Seri Mahathir Mohamad of Malaysia announced cancellation of the Bakun Dam project, proposed for the interior of the state of...

A foot in the door. (role of environmental non-governmental organization in increasing compliance with international agreements)
March 22, 1997... Environmental groups pursue a stronger role in ensuring compliance in international agreements In 1987, the Brundtland Commission issued its blueprint for a global partnership, recognizing that the community of non-governmental organizations...

City limits. (United Nation's 1996 Habitat II conference on urbanization)
March 22, 1997... New public-private partnerships for improving cities may not meet UN Habitat Conference expectations In June of last year, the city of Istanbul and the United Nation's Centre for Human Settlements played host to the largest conference ever...

Exorcizing apartheid from South Africa's cities.
March 22, 1997... Perhaps one of the best illustrations of the tensions associated with the governance approach to urban development is the case of South Africa. In many ways, South Africa is like an environmental microcosm of the world, with a relatively small...

Pride and power in a Lima shanty town. (improvement of a shanty town in Peru)
March 22, 1997... "We were living in garbage.We can show pictures where the heaps of garbage were taller than the people," says Maria Marcedes Torres. Marcedes lives in the community of Tacna near central Lima. Until recently, Tacna was typical of the hundreds of...

Greening the College Curriculum: A Guide to Environmental Teaching in the Liberal Arts.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by Stephen Bocking Since the 1960s numerous Canadian universities have established environmental studies programmes or courses. Many university teachers in more traditional disciplines, from literature to history, are also now drawing...

Ecodemia: Campus Environmental Stewardship at the Turn of the 21st Century.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by Greg Michalenko Julian Keniry is the energetic national coordinator of Campus Ecology, the surprisingly visionary "campus outreach" division of the rather conservative US National Wildlife Federation. Keniry's team of inspiring...

In Service of the Wild: Restoring and Reinhabiting Damaged Land.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by Anne Bell What would it mean to reinhabit the land, to become, as Stephanie Mills playfully suggests, "a specimen of Homo sapiens reinhabitens?" Reflecting on her own experiences and on the efforts of others who have tried and are...

Our Ecological Footprint: Reducing Human Impact on the Earth.
March 22, 1997... Review by Jane Inch Our Ecological Footprint is a guidebook for and understanding using the metaphor of a footprint as a measure of our impact upon the earth. The book is lively and conversational, with cartoon drawings giving a lift to the...

Bread, Bricks, Belief: Communities in Charge of Their Future.
March 22, 1997... Reviewed by Joe Mancini Sometimes we lull ourselves into believing that global corporations and their infrastructure are more powerful than collective action at the community level. Economic power from above often disables effective local...

The intelligence of chickens. (a man's story about a chicken's intellect)
March 22, 1997... Oddly enough, in the late 20th century, it's still possible for human beings to own pets. This surprises me. I'd have thought that pet liberation, long the darling of academics, would by now have become a popular movement. Can we, as a society,...