Alternatives Journal articles from September 2000

Alternatives Journal archives from September 2000

A LINE ACROSS THE BOARD.
September 22, 2000... Every year I get the participants in one of my undergraduate classes to define environmental activism. I ask them to name individuals and bodies actively involved in environmental work, and to say where these worthies fit on a line I draw...

Fill That Vehicle.(ride sharing)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... In May, the Ontario government cracked down on Allo Stop, a ride-sharing service headquartered in Montreal but with services to major Ontario cities like Ottawa and Toronto. The Ontario Highway Transport Board claimed that Allo Stop was...

Malaria Parasites May Benefit from Climate Change.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The general warming associated with global climate change will favour increased incidence of malaria in many parts of the world and may bring malaria back to southern Canada, researchers say. While the risks that the disease will reestablish...

Green Revolution Crops Harm Our Heads.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The mid- 1960s drive to bring high-yielding cereals and Western agricultural techniques to developing countries doubled global food output, but may also have contributed to intellectual decline. Often referred to as the Green Revolution,...

Green Tax Shift Should Help the Economy and Environment.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... The United Kingdom is combating environmental damage by redirecting taxes from people to pollution, joining other Western European leaders of this green tax movement. In this year's budget, the UK announced the shifting of $2.2 billion...

GRASS OFF DRUGS.(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Quebec town goes to court to defend lawn-pesticide ban while the federal government considers a general phase out Federal parliamentarians are finally thinking of taking a step that the town of Hudson, Quebec, took almost ten years ago....

FIGHTING FOR LIFE.(indigenous peoples claims to medicinal plants prohibits their patent by pharmaceutical companies because little is returned to indigenous groups)
September 22, 2000... Indigenous people and farmers baffle corporate biopirates When Loren Miller obtained a patent for Ayahuasca, a sacred plant used by tribal groups throughout the Amazon, he was declared an "enemy of indigenous people" whose "entrance in any...

MONEY PIT ON WHEELS.
September 22, 2000... Auto romance would fade quickly if we knew how much cash the four-wheeled sweetheart is actually sucking out of our pockets Daniel Egan, a bicycle and pedestrian planner from Toronto, remembers when his younger brother wanted to buy a car....

Persistence versus Persistents.
September 22, 2000... Nearly 40 years after Silent Spring, environmental advocates are still pushing for elimination of persistent organic pollutants (POPS) RACHEL CARSON's 1962 book, Silent Spring, eloquently and passionately described the deadly environmental...

Diversity Over Solidarity.
September 22, 2000... What we have learned and where we have come in 30 years of eco-activism IT IS AN OLD TRUTH in the scholarly world that taking the ideas of one person is theft, but taking the ideas of many people is research. I can safely claim that for...

Corporate Vulnerability[TM].(author and activist Naomi Klein)
September 22, 2000... Alternatives Journal interviews Naomi Klein Toronto-based writer Naomi Klein is the author a/No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies, an analysis of the recent rise in anti-corporate activism. Alternatives Journal (AJ): What is the...

TEN COMMANDMENTS FOR CHANGING THE WORLD.
September 22, 2000... Seasoned activists Tooker Gomberg and Angela Bischoff offer tips on where to start, how to maintain the momentum and have fun while trying to make a difference "If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that's something, but the...

THE VELORUTION.
September 22, 2000... Bicycle activists and street militants are taking anarchist tactics on the road It's a cool summer night in Berkeley, and I'm bicycling through the dark with "The Twenty Inch Crank" -- a bicycle militant and Critical Mass activist. We are...

YOUNG, POOR, ACTIVE.
September 22, 2000... The People's Community Union organizes local social democracy groups to fight for the rights of Kingston's marginalized residents A determined group of 20 youth burst through the front doors of Kingston's City Council Chambers in the middle...

THE HOUSEWIFE WHO WENT TO WASHINGTON.
September 22, 2000... The new edition of Lois Gibbs' Love Canal reveals the evolution of an activist and her media image You won't learn much about environmental issues watching the television news. But you can learn important lessons about how television...

Finding Our Way Home.
September 22, 2000... Community mapping helps residents define their worries and realize their dreams WHEN WE ARE LOST, a map helps us find our way. It helps us locate where we are and the possible routes we could take to our destination. A map can also point...

Testing the Waters.
September 22, 2000... After the Ontario government abandoned much of its environmental monitoring, citizens' groups established their own means of keeping watch WHEN JIM COLLIS of the Environment Network in Collingwood, Ontario discovered scores of dead fish...

e-Activism.(Indians fight for their lands, Colombia)
September 22, 2000... Environmental activists are using the Internet to organize, spoof and subvert ON JANUARY 25, 2000, Colombian military troops forcibly removed 250 U'Wa people from their legal and ancestral lands in the cloud forests of the Colombian Andes....

SHOOTING THE MOVEMENT.(video activism)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... Grassroots video activists present stories that the mass media neglect or distort Where should environmentalists turn when the mainstream media distorts their message and caricatures the messengers? For activists, the act of taking control...

EARLY ROOTS.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Early Modern Concepts for a Late Modern World: Althusius on Community and Federalism, Thomas O. Hueglin, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier Press, 1999. The subject matter of politics is consociation Johannes Althusius We have...

SACKING THE GLOBALISTS.(Review)
September 22, 2000... Planet Dialectics: Explorations in Environment and Development, Wolfgang Sachs, London: Zed Books, 1999. Wolfgang Sachs has long been a master at unmasking and debunking the myths that keep our destructive societies heading full speed...

Letters.
September 22, 2000... Arrogance We are writing in response to Susan Wismer's review of our book Measures of Success in the spring 2000 issue of your journal. Wismer's primary critique of our book is that she feels it makes the assumption "that overseas...

A GREAT GASEOUS CLOUD.(environmental aspects of hog farms in Canada)(Brief Article)
September 22, 2000... When Canadians travel from coast to coast on the number one, they have a tendency to step on the gas a little harder when going through the prairies. In parts of Alberta and Saskatchewan it's probably just a reaction to convince yourself that...