Alternatives Journal articles from March 1999

Alternatives Journal archives from March 1999

RESTORING WHAT WAS, ATTACKING WHAT IS.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Just outside Alternatives' office is a garden. It is also a tiny wilderness. There are no rows of vegetables, no geometric plantings of ornamental flowers, no commercial possibilities, no philosophy of control. Instead, a tangle of plants...

Marlboro man takes sacred plant.
March 22, 1999... Indigenous peoples of the Ecuadorian Amazon have refused to repeal a policy resolution issued in 1996 declaring US citizen Loren Miller an enemy whose "entrance in any indigenous territory should be prohibited." Miller, director of the...

Ecologists reject pollution solution.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Sport fishing lobbyists want to ease sewage treatment requirements to save Lake Erie's declining pickerel and perch populations. The idea appalls anti-pollution activists and ecosystem scientists say it won't work. The Ontario Federation...

East Coast groups say "NORIGS" in rich marine area.
March 22, 1999... NORIGS 2000 wants to keep oil rigs off Georges Bank. The coalition of fishing, environmental, and community groups is promoting the extension of a moratorium on oil and gas development in the sensitive marine area. Georges Bank, off...

Monarch butterflies get model forest.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Mexico now has its third model forest, the first to incorporate the winter habitat of the monarch butterfly. El Bosque Modelo de la Mariposa Monarca was officially inaugurated earlier this year with the twin goals of promoting sustainable use...

VOTERS STILL GREEN.
March 22, 1999... But the environment is not on governments' agendas Pollsters call it the Green Wave -- those heady years from 1987 to 1992 when the environment rode the crest of citizen concerns and governments responded in kind. The federal Green Plan...

ONCE AND FUTURE CREEKS.
March 22, 1999... Plans for stream daylighting promise resurrection of Vancouver waterways The oldest maps of the city of Vancouver show winding creeks and salmon-bearing streams flowing through neighbourhoods and unsettled lands. Since then most of these...

WHAT IS ORGANIC?(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Agribusiness wants Canadian and US agencies to weaken organic standards Genetic engineering, food irradiation and sewage sludge fertilization have not traditionally been associated with certified organic food production, but agribusiness...

BLOOD AND OIL.
March 22, 1999... Shooting deaths of young Nigerian activists are linked to Chevron Corporation The US-based Chevron Corporation has admitted to some involvement in a military shooting in May 1998 that killed two community and environmental activists in...

IRONING OUT WARMING WRINKLES.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Fertilizing the oceans with iron could help block climate change - or it could make things worse The world's oceans are buffering the effects of fossil fuel burning by absorbing up to one-third of annual carbon dioxide released annually...

RECLAMATION ART.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Robert Morris' Untitled: Johnson Pit #30 reclaimed an industrially blasted landscape without forgiving it. Can art effectively address the blight on nature caused by industrial entrepreneurship? It sure seems so, if we consider reclamation...

LEEKS, RACING PIGEONS AND VALLEY OF THE BEARS.
March 22, 1999... Museums can be tools for community education on restoration When a museum design team comes into town, the writing is on the wall. Museums herald the last nail in the coffin for a way of life and the natural wealth of a place -- he two...

Beyond Repair.(Sudbury, Ontario)
March 22, 1999... Ecological restoration is as much about transforming values and practices as about repairing damaged ecosystems SUDBURY, ONTARIO EVOKES an image of tall smoke stacks looming over blackened hills made barren and semi-barren by forestry and...

Eight Questions for Ecological Restorationists.
March 22, 1999... Maybe I would be happier if I could begin a good day of ecological restoration just by grabbing my GSA-approved hard-hat, boots, a shovel and a can of beer. But most days I also have to take a damn-the-torpedoes attitude out of the mental...

Trail-blazing in False Creek.
March 22, 1999... Building a heritage pathway is one way to link community, history and ecology IN 1998 THE CANRON building in the False Creek area of Vancouver was torn down, despite intense efforts by heritage preservationists to convince Vancouver's city...

Working Art.
March 22, 1999... Regenerating Urban Ecosystems With Public Art There are few better symbols of the city dwellers' isolation from the cycles of nature than the treatment we afford water in urban areas. Water as precipitation is treated as a menace and...

The Bear in the Kitchen.
March 22, 1999... Ecological restoration in Jasper Park raises questions about wilderness in the Disney age A BEAR WALKED, or rather barged through the back door of the Palisades Research Centre one hot summer afternoon three years ago. Returning from...

THE NEVER-NEVER LAND OF MANAGING ENVIRONMENT.(Review)
March 22, 1999... Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective, Philip Dearnden and Bruce Mitchell, Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1998. Like many of my generation, I was first introduced to reading by books written in another time and place...

INSIDE AND OUT.(Review)
March 22, 1999... About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory, Barry Lopez, Toronto: Random House, 1998. Barry Lopez is best known for his nonfiction works such as Arctic Dreams and Of Wolves and Men. His new collection of essays, About This Life,...

ECOLOGICAL SOLUTIONS TO POLLUTION.(Review)
March 22, 1999... The Water Crisis: Constructing Solutions to Freshwater Pollution, Julie Stauffer, London: Earthscan, 1998. Water pollution is still with us in the industrialized world, but there are some new ecologically based ways for dealing with it, at...

Letters.(Brief Article)
March 22, 1999... Greenpeace and labour Mae Burrows' article, "Allied Forces", in your fall issue [24:4, 1998] is an interesting piece on the need for unions and environmentalists to work together for a healthy environment and healthy economy. As one...