Alternatives articles from September 1994

Alternatives archives from September 1994

At the limits of the regulated market. (environmental protection) (Cover Story) (Editorial)
September 1, 1994... All market-based economies have depended on regulation. Without government and community interventions to control, repair and compensate for the negative effects of profit-seeking, the market would destroy itself and the world in which it...

Cormorant recovery worries fishers. (Prince Edward Island)
September 1, 1994... Prince Edward Island is wrestling with its cormorant problem. Double-crested cormorant populations have risen significantly and some islanders want a major cull to protect sport and commercial fisheries. Naturalist groups say a major control...

Think global, act loco. (environmentalism - humor)(Harms' Way) (Column)
September 1, 1994... If you've ever wondered why space aliens haven't tried to contact us yet (ok, at least they haven't tried to contact me), it's probably because they're still trying to understand our science. I know I keep running into the kind of...

Saskatchewan citizens disillusioned by uranium mine approvals.
September 1, 1994... The NDP government in Saskatchewan has reversed its official policy by announcing its intention to open a series of uranium mines in the far north of the province. Wollaston Lake, in a region populated mostly by Dene, Cree and Metis, is to...

Dene doubting diamonds. (proposed diamond mining in Denendeh tribal lands in Northwest Territories)
September 1, 1994... Continuing diamond exploration and possible mine development in the Northwest Territories is causing concern among the Dene people. Since the discovery of underground diamondbearing kimberlite pipes in the area, a rush of speculative land...

Farmers and consumers unite in community shared agriculture. (includes related article on local agriculture promotion in the Canadian Maritime provinces)
September 1, 1994... In a world of industrial agriculture, mono-cropping and supermarket shopping, Dan Wiens is growing a variety of foods for a guaranteed market of families in his own area. He knows them all, and since the families are shareholders in his...

Keeping secrets at the World Bank. (includes related World Bank reform proposal by the Worldwatch Institute)
September 1, 1994... A leaked internal report on World Bank resettlement schemes has revealed that two million people are currently being forced off their land and that another two million will be forcibly resettled under projects set for approval by 1996. ...

Renewed debate surfaces around Human Genome Project. (includes related article on genetic screening issues)
September 1, 1994... The US National Institute of Health's decision to reconsider its funding of the Human Genome Project has stirred renewed debate. Disagreement centres on whether the project rests on a sound scientific and ideological basis, and whether society...

Keeping the zero in zero discharge: phasing out persistent toxic substances in the Great Lakes Basin. (U.S.-Canada environmental protection)(includes French-language summary abstract) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1994... After a 1991 survey, Environment Canada heralded the return of the bald eagle to the shores of western Lake Erie as proof of the restoration of the Great Lakes and the decline of toxic substances.(1) In the same year, however, wildlife...

Subtle effects: requiring economic assessments in the Environmental Choice programme. (Canadian Environmental Choice Product labelling)(includes French-language summary abstract) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1994... During the past decade we have witnessed a remarkable shift in the approach to environmental regulation in Canada. While earlier regulations relied on largely unsuccessful threats of penalties and fines for infractions of extremely rigorous...

Who pays for past sins? Policy issues surrounding contaminated site remediation in Canada. (includes French-language summary abstract) (Cover Story)
September 1, 1994... The New York Times of March 21, 1993 reported that many policy makers in the United States are now convinced that environmental protection policy as it has evolved over the past 30 years in that country has "gone seriously awry... [because]...

Environment on Trial: A Guide to Ontario Environmental Law and Policy, 3rd ed.
September 1, 1994... The third edition of Environment on Trial: A Guide to Ontario Environmental Law and Policy weighs in at 909 pages, with a price tag of $44, but is a bargain for environmentalists interested in keeping abreast with the current state of Ontario's...

Genetic Resources: A Practical Guide to Their Conservation.
September 1, 1994... You probably already know a great deal about the plight of genetic resources and gradual loss of crop strains. Daniel Querol explains the importance of and possible methods for conservation and use of the world's precious genetic resources....

Water: An International Crisis.
September 1, 1994... We rarely bother to ask what developing countries can teach us or how old cultural and technological traditions might offer very appropriate solutions to current problems. Robin Clarke's Water: An International Crisis encapsulates what at first...

Toxic Nation: The Fight to Save Our Communities from Chemical Contamination.
September 1, 1994... The struggle of the environmental justice movement to gain respect in the popular media is often impeded by the diversity of agendas that are addressed under this label. Many proponents feel that a holistic approach should be taken, dealing...

Garbage Gate: Giants of Garbage - the Rise of the Global Waste Industry and the Politics of Pollution Control.
September 1, 1994... Waste management is a small-time business venture. Garbage. In Giants of Garbage, Crooks examines the waste hauling industry of North America, revealing some interesting -- and at times shocking -- information. According to Crooks, garbage,...

Building Cities that Work.
September 1, 1994... In Building Cities that Work E.P. Fowler draws connections between social values, built form, political and bureaucratic thinking and environmental disaster. He begins with a scholarly and well researched test of Jane Jacob's theories about the...

Passive Solar Buildings.
September 1, 1994... During the 11-year existence (1975-1986) of the American National Solar Energy Program (NSEP), a great deal of research, development and implementation work was performed -- over 30,000 titles' worth. Because so much was done in a short time,...

Taming the Great South Land: A History of the Conquest of Nature in Australia.
September 1, 1994... If you want to get steamed up about environmental destruction resulting from the combined efforts of government and industry to exploit natural resources, this polemic from Australia is just the ticket. There is nothing subtle about this book....

Conversations with Arne Naess: Is it Painful to Think?
September 1, 1994... Conversations with Arne Naess: Is It Painful to Think? is the product of an extended discussion between the Norwegian philosopher Arne Naess, inventor of the term "deep ecology" in 1972, and American academic David Rothenberg, the translator of...

Beginning Again: People and Nature in the New Millennium.
September 1, 1994... Thoughtful simplicity is the best way to describe the theme of this elegant and charming volume. Beginning Again is a chronicle of societal decline and environmental destruction, with remedies woven together with a commentary of good, common...

Pioneers of Change: Experiments in Creating a Humane Society.
September 1, 1994... When I first read the title of this book, I assumed it would detail attempts at creating alternative communities. Although one commune is indeed described, Pioneers of Change is instead a series of profiles of the people who have over the last...

Sealing Fate: Seals and Canada's Fishing Crisis.
September 1, 1994... Over the last few decades Canada's east coast fishing industry hasn't won many media battles. There was the anti-sealing campaign of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and Greenpeace, and the banning of the importation of seal...

Frustrated R Us: parenting in the environmental era. (humor) (Column)
September 1, 1994... Our two-year-old son runs to the front window of our house every time he hears the throbbing sound of a large internal combustion engine. At such times, we don't need to look to find out what's going by on the road. He lets us know in a loud,...