Alternatives articles from May 1993

Alternatives archives from May 1993

Sharing and protecting the commons. (Canadian land management) (Editorial)
May 1, 1993... Canadians have long debated whether we should manage natural resources through private ownership or through public ownership vested in the provincial or federal state. Various options and combinations have been pursued, but the results have...

Just another short trip, Bozo. (British Columbia's Air Care program) (Column)
May 1, 1993... Ironically, life is filled with irony. As a columnist, it is my responsibility point out irony to you, the Paying unless, of course, you have only borrowed this magazine, which we in the magazine business refer to as a Rather Despicable Form...

Pesticide controversy raises doubts about multi-stakeholder process. (fenitrothion)
May 1, 1993... Environmentalists seeking deregistration of a controversial chemical pesticide have been denied an active role in the re-evaluation, despite reforms that were supposed to establish a more open regulatory process. Fenitrothion, the...

Gananoque cuts waste by 40%. (Gananoque, Ontario's waste management program)
May 1, 1993... For the past year and a half, residents of Gananoque, Ontario, have been paying by the bag for their trash. To meet the costs of waste management and provide an economic incentive for waste reduction, the municipality charges. one dollar for...

Canadian company leads the way in diaper recycling. (Knowaste Technologies Inc.)
May 1, 1993... Disposable diapers are normally either incinerated or sent to landfill. Now there is another alternative. Knowaste Technologies Inc. of Toronto has developed a process that recycles used diapers into three usable substances. The new...

Lack of space frustrates urban gardeners. (Toronto, Ontario)
May 1, 1993... In summer, Toronto's Ecology Park community garden is an inner-city oasis of vegetable, fruit and herb gardens, wild flowers and trees. Tucked behind the Spadina subway station among skyscrapers, concrete and asphalt, is an explosion of...

Rio's global climate convention: a promotional regime. (United Nation's Framework Convention on Climate Change)
May 1, 1993... The atmosphere is a global commons in the truest sense, since greenhouse gas emissions produced anywhere in the world enter the atmosphere causing climate changes that have repercussions for all countries. Recognizing the global nature of the...

Maroochy catchment management: an Australian version of bioregionalism. (Elaine Green on Maroochy River protection) (Interview)
May 1, 1993... An aboriginal legend talks about a land with heavy vine scrub and thick forests that sheltered the dark people. The game was plentiful and there were fruits, nuts, yams, and fish for the gathering. The legend also tells of young Marutchi - a...

Bucking the free market economy; using land trusts for conservation and community-building. (includes related article)
May 1, 1993... Using Land Trusts for Conservation and Community-Building The use we now make of land often exemplifies the "tragedy of the commons." Whether we are dealing with natural areas, agricultural land or land for reasonably priced housing, it...

Reclaiming deserted corridors: rights of way as common property resources. (utility corridors)
May 1, 1993... Electric power line corridors are standard features of the North American landscape. The once audacious dream of providing universal access to electric power has become a commonplace reality. Cleared utility corridors criss-cross fields and...

Guardians of manomin: aboriginal self-management of wild rice harvesting. (in Canada)
May 1, 1993... In their quest for self-determination, aboriginal peoples have intensified their demands for greater control over the common property resources upon which their life ways depend. As a result, the concept of co-management has gained broad...

Co-management efforts as social movements: the Tin Wis Coalition and the drive for forest practices legislation in British Columbia. (includes related articles)
May 1, 1993... The Tin Wis Coalition and the Drive for Forest Practices Legislation in British Columbia In 1991, a model forest practices act that would radically transform methods of forest management in British Columbia was proposed by a coalition of...

Manufacturing Consent: Noam Chomsky and the Media.
May 1, 1993... The term "strategic carpet bombing" was my favourite bit of Gulf War media babble. Never before had human-kind witnessed such mustering of hightech military might. But for all the sterile videotape images of computer-guided ordnance, the...

The Culture of Nature: North American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez.
May 1, 1993... Students are being schooled in politics of the environment, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental sciences, sometimes even environmental literature, but usually these assume an older mode of analysis, one inattentive to...

Landscapes of Power: From Detroit to Disney World.
May 1, 1993... Students are being schooled in politics of the environment, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental sciences, sometimes even environmental literature, but usually these assume an older mode of analysis, one inattentive to...

The American Replacement of Nature.
May 1, 1993... Students are being schooled in politics of the environment, environmental economics, environmental policy, environmental sciences, sometimes even environmental literature, but usually these assume an older mode of analysis, one inattentive to...

Earth in the Balance: Ecology and the Human Spirit.
May 1, 1993... Within Congress, Al Gore, has long had a reputation as a thorough and forward-thinking legislator. As Vice President, Gore will bring to the job an authenticity and intellectual vigor which the office has not seen for a long time. Gore's...

Last Animals at the Zoo: How Mass Extinction Can Be Stopped.
May 1, 1993... The richness and diversity of life on earth is in jeopardy. By the next century, millions of species could become extinct. Conservationists are now attempting to find feasible solutions to the crisis. Last Animals at the Zoo addresses the...

Planning for Sustainability: Towards Integrating Environmental Protection into Land-Use Planning.
May 1, 1993... The Royal Commission on the Future of the Toronto Waterfront has produced yet another high quality document. This one was written by former commission executive director, Ronald Doering, assisted by a leading official of Cadillac Fairview (a...

Back into the quagmire: linking patriarchy and planetary destruction. (Column)
May 1, 1993... Linking patriarchy and planetary destruction Patriarchy, as ecofeminist Elizabeth Dodson Gray points out, acts as a "conceptual trap" within which most people live and breathe, their thinking grounded in the assumption that male experience...