Alternatives articles from November 1993

Alternatives archives from November 1993

Global problems, government limits. (international environmental law) (Editorial)
November 1, 1993... "It is difficult to imagine success in global environmental protection without effective international law." So says Jutta Brunnee in this issue of Alternatives. No doubt she is right. We face a long and still growing list of environmental...

Get with the programme. (satire on transportation policy) (Column)
November 1, 1993... I don't consider myself a political animal, that is if you can call insects animals. Now don't start waving your feelers at me, pretending to be agitated. If you can't take a cheap shot like that, you don't have a thick enough skin. If I...

Nova Scotia aquaculture initiative raises sustainability questions. (includes related article on the environmental consequences of the overuse of antibiotics in aquaculture)
November 1, 1993... In a move to foster a sustainable aquaculture industry, the Nova Scotia government has announced a major aquaculture development programme. The initiative has been welcomed by industry advocates who believe aquaculture has better future...

A fertile issue: making sewage safer in metro Toronto.
November 1, 1993... Karey Shinn is obsessed with shit. More precisely, she is obsessed with lobbying for safe and effective treatment of shit. As co-chair of the Public Committee for Safe Sewage Treatment in Metropolitan Toronto and editor of their newsletter,...

Canadian groups twinned with Ecuador and Eritrea. (through the Environmental Development Support Fund)
November 1, 1993... A new fund administered by the Canadian Environmental Network under the auspices of the Canadian International Development Agency is helping Canadian environmental groups develop working relationships with nongovernment organizations in other...

Beyond Rio? The evolution of international environmental law. (includes related articles on Canada's position on biodiversity treaties) (Cover Story)
November 1, 1993... Environmental degradation and other threats to sustainability are now clearly global problems and many of them require global responses. So far, from an environmental protection perspective, most of these responses could be called...

Protecting a land without a country: the Antarctic environmental protocol. (Cover Story)
November 1, 1993... The Antarctic Environmental Protocol Antarctica, covering ten percent of the earth's land surface and containing 70 percent of the planet's fresh water, is the coldest, windiest, highest and most isolated of the the seven continents.(1)...

Forging a link: two approaches to integrating trade and environment. (includes related articles)
November 1, 1993... In the shadow of the Earth Summit, and in the light of a new American presidential administration, greater attention is being focused on the relationship between liberalized trade and environmental protection. In the 1940s when the General...

From Ideas to Action: Business and Sustainable Development.
November 1, 1993... From Ideas to Action is one of a growing number of books that sets out to inspire business to move toward sustainable development. It hopes to show that sustainable development is not a burden on business but "a way to reinvigorate a company...

Our Country, the Planet.
November 1, 1993... The Earth Summit, and the flurry of preparations and publicity that went along with it, made it clear that the conflict between the developed North and the developing South will have to be resolved before serious action is taken on a global...

The Carbon Dioxide Report for Canada: An Analysis of Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Energy Policy in Canada.
November 1, 1993... This collection of articles written by members of the Canadian Climate Action Network provides both statistics and discussion on how government energy policies affect our progress in controlling carbon dioxide emissions. Technically the...

Nonviolence Speaks to Power.
November 1, 1993... When Petra Kelly and her long-time companion Gert Bastian were found dead in their Bonn house last October, police quickly concluded that Bastian had shot Kelly as she slept and then turned the gun on himself. This conclusion seems...

Conservation of Neotropical Forests: Working from Traditional Resource Use.
November 1, 1993... These two books both argue that the rainforests have been used - and modified - for thousands of years by human beings, but that in the past few decades, under the impact of Western industrial societies, the intensity of human utilization has...

Vanishing Rain Forests: The Ecological Transition in Malaysia.
November 1, 1993... These two books both argue that the rainforests have been used - and modified - for thousands of years by human beings, but that in the past few decades, under the impact of Western industrial societies, the intensity of human utilization has...

Radical Ecology: The Search for a Livable World.
November 1, 1993... Carolyn Merchant examines the philosophical roots of radical ecology and its characteristics as a body of human activity which seeks to bring about fundamental changes in the way society and its institutions relate to nature and the...

Lore: Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge.
November 1, 1993... In the Marovo area of the Solomon Islands, a near-pristine tropical rainforest, barrier reef and lagoon are managed through a complex system of customary tenure. The local community initiated the Marovo Project in order to improve their...

Scientists on Gaia.
November 1, 1993... Initially James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis was ignored by most scientists. This neglect indirectly led to the 1988 Chapman Conference on Gaia Science on which this book was based. Scientists on Gaia begins with an overview in which...

Healing Gaia: Practical Medicine for a Planet.
November 1, 1993... Initially James Lovelock's Gaia hypothesis was ignored by most scientists. This neglect indirectly led to the 1988 Chapman Conference on Gaia Science on which this book was based. Scientists on Gaia begins with an overview in which...

Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World and US Volunteer Opportunities.
November 1, 1993... While these books have some similarities in content, they take widely different approaches. Stephanie Ocko's Environmental Vacations is much more descriptive, relating how environmental vacations function, why people go and what they do as...

Environmental Vacations: Volunteer Projects to Save the Planet.
November 1, 1993... While these books have some similarities in content, they take widely different approaches. Stephanie Ocko's Environmental Vacations is much more descriptive, relating how environmental vacations function, why people go and what they do as...

Whitewash: Exposing the Health and Environmental Dangers of Women's Sanitary Products and Disposable Diapers - What You Can Do About It.
November 1, 1993... Each year, North American pulp mills dump into our waterways approximately one million tonnes of chlorinated organic material, including some of the most toxic and potent cancer-causing agents known. There has been much concern that some of...

Making a Middle Landscape.
November 1, 1993... Urban literature is slowly coming to terms with the suburb. This emerging interest in the suburb is tied to its demographic weight - most North Americans live in suburban type areas - and to the realization that suburbs are becoming an...

It's time for a peoples' council for global sustainability. (Column)
November 1, 1993... Former British Green party leader Sara PE recently invited to address NATO officers. "If you consider human security," she them, "in terms of people already dead, or numbers of people threatened with death, or numbers of people obliged to...