Alternatives articles from August 1993

Alternatives archives from August 1993

Water on the brain. (anecdotal look at logging, environmental protection and ecotourism) (Editorial)
August 1, 1993... It's raining here on the Wet Coast. It's been raining almost every day for a month, and it's going to rain tomorrow. It looks like it's just getting started. The rain is merciless. After a while it eats into your mind. It's generally...

Ecosystem management in Rondeau Provincial Park. (white-tail deer) (Ontario)
August 1, 1993... As a boy in the 1950s, Stephen Smith paid many visits to Rondeau provincial park to see species common to the southern US but rarely found in Canada. Today he is a professor of biology, and fears that many of those species are in grave danger....

Methyl bromide threatens ozone layer. (efforts to prevent Canadian agriculture industry from using pesticide)
August 1, 1993... The Canadian agricultural industry is under pressure to eliminate a widely used pesticide recently identified as a serious threat to the ozone layer. Studies by the UNEP Scientific Panel have confirmed that methyl bromide, a pesticide used...

Heirloom plant programmes create living gene banks. (Heritage Seed Program in Canada)
August 1, 1993... Have you ever tried an Aberdeen Yellow Purple-Top Turnip or seen a Yellow Iris? Likely not, unless you know where to find rare Canadian heirloom plant species. Until recently it seemed you would have to act quickly before habitat destruction...

Environment is a part of education at New Zealand's Mountain Valley community school.
August 1, 1993... Lisa Gruner is a twelve year old student and budding poet of the Mountain Valley school in New Zealand. Her poem is part of a rich collection of environmental projects and activities by students of this unusual country school. Mountain Valley...

Montreal signs contract for new incinerator. (Canadian city's $270 million deal for largest domestic waste incinerator in the country)
August 1, 1993... The Montreal area's main municipal garbage agency has signed a $270 million contract for the largest domestic waste incinerator to be built in Canada. The Montreal Inter-Municipal Waste Management Corporation (RIGDIM), which is responsible...

"SOPECOR" or what students can do for the environment. (Canada's student-oriented Environmental Protection Society's effort to collect wastes for composting and recycling)
August 1, 1993... Surrounded by plants in a jungle-like school cafeteria, students and teachers attempt to empty their trays. But there is no garbage can. They must separate their wastes into well-identified containers for recyclables and food left-overs...

Shetland tanker spill worries Canadian fish farmers. (oil tanker accident and subsequent oil spill stir concerns over tankers passing through the Bay of Fundy)
August 1, 1993... The stranding of the oil tanker Braer on Sumburgh Head in the Shetland Islands has raised concern about the vulnerability of aquaculture operations in Atlantic Canada. The Braer's light crude oil was destined for Quebec and Canada's fish...

Women and sustainability: ecofeminist perspectives. (understanding the relevance of radical eco-feminism) (Cover Story)
August 1, 1993... Ajede wakes before sunrise in Zaire and sparks banana leaves and brush into flame for the morning cookfire. She sweeps the floor, tends the animals and prepares a meal for her six children before leaving to work in the fields. Later that day...

Time waits for no beast: temporality and the dis-integration of nature. (the impact of human endeavors existing around the clock, 24 hours per day, on man's relationship with natural and environmental cycles that cannot be altered in time)
August 1, 1993... In his book, Cambodia: A Book for People Who Find Television Too Slow, Brian Fawcett tells the story of Huxley, a fictional British Columbia town that is transformed by a satellite dish.(1) The story begins with a couple of enterprising...

The Cape Breton Island spruce budworm infestation: a restrospective analysis. (effort to prevent aerial spraying of Nova Scotia forests with 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T that impacted wildlife survival)
August 1, 1993... During the past 20 years my family and I have lived on the North Branch of the Baddeck River in central Cape Breton. Near our home the river flows out of a 180 metre deep gorge, from its source on the highlands plateau. It is a place of...

Beyond Interdependence: The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology.
August 1, 1993... Beyond Interdependence delivers an array of policy options and strategies for global negotiation, while World Resources is a rich source of up-to-date information on global conditions. Both books place their hope, however, on massive economic...

World Resources 1992-93: A Guide to the Global Environment- Toward Sustainable Development.
August 1, 1993... Beyond Interdependence delivers an array of policy options and strategies for global negotiation, while World Resources is a rich source of up-to-date information on global conditions. Both books place their hope, however, on massive economic...

No Fish and Our Lives: Some Survival Notes for Newfoundland.
August 1, 1993... "How to avoid another environmental crisis and what to watch for in your politician" might be another suitable sub-heading for Cabot Martin's new book. This collection of short essays written for the weekly Sunday Express from 1989 to 1991,...

The Social Creation of Nature.
August 1, 1993... A close look at something we take for granted is often very revealing. Take the word "nature", for example. It's commonly used in everyday speech: we answer the call of nature; we understand human nature; and we refer to things as natural or...

Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process.
August 1, 1993... There has been relatively little work by political scientists on Canadian environmental politics and policy. Canadian Environmental Policy: Ecosystems, Politics and Process, a collection of essays edited by Robert Boardman, attempts to begin to...

Wild Hunters: Predators in Peril.
August 1, 1993... Think of the last time you saw wolves trotting past city hall, cougars lazing on a parking lot, or a wolverine chewing on a fire hydrant. It does not happen. They can't live here and we, as a society, would not tolerate it. Throughout history,...

Elephants: The Deciding Decade.
August 1, 1993... Elephants: The Deciding Decade allows its readers a captivating glimpse of the elephant and its precarious situation, just this side of the edge of extinction. The message of the book is clear: although the elephant has a better chance at...

End of the Road: The World Car Crisis and How We Can Solve It.
August 1, 1993... What is it that poisons us, kills us, blights the landscape, operates at only three percent efficiency and yet is considered a beloved and essential part of modern life the world over? The answer, unfortunately, is the automobile, and the...

Mountain World in Danger: Climate Change in the Forests and Mountains of Europe.
August 1, 1993... Mountain World in Danger provides information on the effects of climatic change in the forests and mountains of Europe. The book was sponsored by the Bellerive Foundation, an alpine club dedicated to raising consciousness about problems facing...

Ecological Economics: The Science of Sustainability.
August 1, 1993... This large volume is the proceedings of a workshop that followed the First Meeting of the International Society for Ecological Economics in Washington in May 1990. Robert Costanza defines ecological economics as "a new transdisciplinary field...

Hurray for the four-day work week: working less to save the environment. (reducing full-time employment to enable others to work and to reduce demands on resources) (Cover Story)
August 1, 1993... Working less to save the environment There is one assumption that most Canadians share: any person not enjoying full employment is suffering a more or less tragic life. Employment generation has become the principal benchmark against which...