Alternatives Journal articles from September 1999

Alternatives Journal archives from September 1999

World Bank Freezes Loan That Could Harm Tibetan Minority.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... In an unprecedented move, the World Bank has withheld part of a loan to China in response to protests that the project to be funded would harm the Tibetan ethnic minority. The China Western Poverty Reduction Project aims to help 58,000...

Manitoba Says No to Hearings on Hogs.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Despite requests from the public, and considerable uncertainty over potential impacts on the Assiniboine River, Manitoba's environment ministry has decided to not recommend public hearings on the latest approvals for a controversial hog...

Taxpayers Stuck with Cost of Giant Mine's Arsenic Clean-up.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The "polluter pays" principle is not being applied in Yellowknife. Instead, Canadian taxpayers will be saddled with much if not all of the estimated $250 million cost for cleaning up arsenic-contaminated wastes at Yellowknife's Giant mine. ...

FISH FIGHT.(environmental concerns over fish stocking in Lake Huron)
September 22, 1999... Alien salmon in Lake Huron keep anglers happy, but threaten native lake trout EricJohnston's people, the Nawash of Chippewa, have been fishing the waters of the Bruce peninsula for hundreds upon hundreds of years. Clans in the Nawash...

THE RIGHT TO BIKE.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Southern Africans promote sustainable transportation for women and men Transportation activists are stopping traffic in Johannesburg. Since January, 1999, groups of 30 or more South African cyclists have been riding en masse through the...

EXAM TIME.(Canadian Environmental Assessment Act to be reviewed)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The five-year-old Canadian Environmental Assessment Act faces public review Canada's beleaguered environmental assessment law is up for review with environmental advocates pointing to serious deficiencies, the provinces demanding less...

DIVIDING HIGHWAY.
September 22, 1999... Local politicians are outraged by plans for federal hearings on proposed expressway through Hamilton Valley The multidecade battle over Hamilton's proposed Red Hill Creek Expressway is headed into public hearings that promise to test...

Bitter Harvest.(government-approved exploitation of rockweed protested by residents of Grand Manan Island)
September 22, 1999... For the people of Grand Manan, government-approved exploitation of rockweed is yet another outside threat to local ecosystems and economic sustainability ON JULY 24, 1996, a flat bed truck sat on Ingall's Head wharf, Grand Manan island,...

Redeeming the Blue Box.(cost and effectiveness of waste management programs in Canada evaluated)
September 22, 1999... Complaints that recycling is too expensive just don't add up SINCE THE MID-1980s, a new era in solid waste management has emerged in Canada. The "out of sight, out of mind" mindset, dominant since the late 1940s, has been replaced (at least...

Undermining Wilderness.(mining industry threatens protected areas)
September 22, 1999... The Canadian mining industry is abandoning its support for a national network of protected areas LATE ONE EVENING in April 1998, a dike broke at the Canadian-owned Los Frailes zinc mine in southern Spain, releasing five million cubic...

CORPORATE PRETENSE.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism, White River Junction, Sharon Beder, Vermont: Chelsea Green Publishing Company, 1997. The prevalence of terms like "environmental deregulation", "eco-freak", "special interest group"...

CORPORATE POTENTIAL.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Cannibals with Forks: The Triple Bottom Line of 21st Century Business, John Elkington, Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1998. The "triple bottom line" John Elkington reports, will be the business imperative of the 21st century....

BACK TO THE LAND.(Review)
September 22, 1999... New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-Land Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future, Jeffrey Jacob, University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1997. Jeffrey Jacob does two main things this book. The first is to explo? whether...

EVERYTOWN'S TOOLKIT.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Toward Sustainable Communities, Mark Roseland, Gabriola Island, BC: New Society Publishers, 1998. This revised and updated second edition of the book, originally commissioned by the National Roundtable on Environment and Economy, is...

STAND ASIDE RUBBER CHICKEN.(rubber animal for research)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... One of the more Challenging aspects of being a thinking, caring, environmentally sensitive individual is coming to terms with some of nature's little critters to which said individual may have an unexplainable aversion. Consider the rat. As...

WHEN THE GOING GETS TOUGH.(environmental movement)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... One morning this fall, I opened my copy of Le Devoir -- the smallest, least commercial, and best written of Montreal's four daily newspapers -- for my news update and daily French lesson. Instead I got two lessons on the spectres haunting...

The Case of the Disappearing Ribbit.(abnormalities in frogs)(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Something mysterious is happening to global frog populations. A variety of deformities, such as extra legs, are fueling worries that frogs are indicators of a larger environmental problem. But two recent studies from the American journal...