Alternatives articles from October 1995

Alternatives archives from October 1995

Now that we are significant. (human influence over the environment)(Editorial)
October 1, 1995... Forehead mites are rarely photographed. This is not because they are rare or elusive (the unassuming creatures reside on most human faces, quietly grazing on dead skin and other delicacies) and it's not because the mites are small and ugly...

It ain't the humidity. (1995 summer in Canada)(Column)
October 1, 1995... This year 1 spent part of my summer in Winnipeg, land of the Sikorsky twin-rotor mosquito. There's something quintessentially Canadian about the mosquito, I think. Most of the country suffers their reign in the summer months, even as we endure...

Charges against environmental doctor worry victims of environmental illness. (Dr. Jozef Krop)
October 1, 1995... One of Canada's leading specialists in environmental medicine has been charged with incompetence and professional misconduct by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario (CPSO). Although there were no patient complaints, Dr. Jozef Krop,...

Unusual partnership brings recycling to St. John's. (St. John's, Newfoundland)
October 1, 1995... Question: What do you get when you cross an entrepreneur in a VW van, 25 mentally ill patients in a work training programme, and a recycling plant? Answer: St. John's recycling programme! And far from being a joke, it's a successful...

Legislation may reduce illegal wildlife trade in Canada.
October 1, 1995... Conservationists are welcoming new, federal legislation against trade in endangered species, but are concerned enforcement will remain weak. The Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act...

Ontario courts reluctant composters. (backyard composting)
October 1, 1995... When it comes to composting, the province of Ontario can boast about an impressive track record: the Ministry of the Environment and Energy has provided subsidized composters since 1989, and has funded various intensive composting campaigns...

New Canadians enrich environmental activism.
October 1, 1995... Yuga Juma Onziga, Ashraf Karimi and Cecelia Chang are unusual among Canadian environmental activists. In a movement that has long been dominated by middle-class whites they are leaders of initiatives to involve the rich cultural diversity of...

Sustainability as symbiosis: why we can't be the forehead mites of Gaia.(includes French language article summary)
October 1, 1995... The last, desperate years of the 20th century present us with two glaring anomalies. First, there is an increasingly grotesque disparity in wealth and material well-being between the winners and the losers in the global economic sweepstakes....

More jobs, less damage: a framework for sustainability, growth and employment.(includes French language article summary and a definition of natural capital)
October 1, 1995... Globalization of the economy and global ecological change since WW II have changed the nature of the human-environment relationship dramatically and irreversibly. As a result of accelerating growth, humankind has gone from playing a bit part to...

Taxing combustion and rehabilitating forests.(includes French language article summary and a related article on the U.N. Earth summit's Agenda 21)
October 1, 1995... In the preceding article "More Jobs, Less Damage" I argued that conventional economic development models are ecologically and socially naive and that ecological economics provides a stronger foundation for local and global and sustainability....

A rare good thing: the Hopi Solar Project and barriers to the use of renewable energy technologies.(includes French language article summary)
October 1, 1995... The environmentalist injunction to "think globally and act locally" begs questions about how to design and initiate local action that will address problems such as ozone-layer depletion and climate change, which affect the entire global...

Our Common Ground: A Celebration of Art, Place and Environment.
October 1, 1995... Jerry de Gryse & Andrew Sant, eds., Hobart: Australian Institute of Landscape Architects and the Board of Enviromnental Studies, University of Tasmania, 1994, $30 (Aust), soft cover Our Common Ground takes its reader on an extraordinary...

Toxic Struggles: The Theory and Practice of Environmental Justice.
October 1, 1995... Richard Hofrichter, ed., Philadelphia: New Society Publishers, 1993, soft cover, $19.95 Richard Hofrichter, editor of Toxic Struggles, proposes that environmental injustices experienced disproportionately by poor minorities are inseparable...

The Politics of Nature: Explorations in Green Political Theory.
October 1, 1995... Andrew Dobson and Paul Lucardie, eds., London: Routledge, 1993. This collection of essays is yet another contribution to the rapidly growing literature that considers the implications of environmentalism for political theory. Emerging out of...

Population and Environment: Rethinking the Debate.
October 1, 1995... Lourdes Arizpe, M. Priscilla Stone, David C. Major, eds., Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1994, soft cover. No stages of human life are as personally significant, and as enveloped in cultural tradition and ritual, as birth and death. How...

Towards Sustainable Rural Communities: The Guelph Seminar Series.
October 1, 1995... John M. Bryden, ed., Guelph, Ontario, School of Rural Planning and Development, University of Guelph, 1994. Towards Sustainable Rural Communities is a sound compilation of papers and discussions about sustainable rural communities, which took...

A tale of community activism: residents work together to halt the Brantford southern access road. (Brantford, Ontario)
October 1, 1995... It was a sparkling cold winter day in January, 1992. 1 was hiking in the Glebe woods on urban land owned by the Six Nations Indians, and as I emerged onto the canal pathway beside our newly bought retirement home I saw four men in suits...