Waterloo, Ontario – Hot new environmental titles are jamming the shelves in bookstores across Canada.
With its most recent issue, New Eco Books, Alternatives covers this ever-widening genre of environmental volumes, and features some of the world’s best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Douglas Coupland, Andrew Nikiforuk, Wade Davis and Adria Vasil.
“Atwood and Coupland are inventing ideas and seeing what happens when they collide,” writes long-time Alternatives contributor Stephen Bocking. His essay, “Science Friction,” compares the newest releases from two of Canada’s finest novelists.
Through the dystopic future visions of Coupland’s Generation A and Atwood’s The Year of the Flood, Bocking analyzes the evolving nature of environmental fiction. (Also look for graphic novelist Evan Munday’s stunning visual interpretation of Atwood’s novel.)
In the spirit of Canadian author Yann Martel, Alternatives asks four prominent green-economy
advocates, including PowerUp Canada’s Tzeporah Berman and the Pembina Institute‘s Marlo Raynolds, to provide a green reading list for PM Stephen Harper. And in her examination of Rick Smith and Bruce Lourie’s popular exposé of household chemicals, Slow Death by Rubber Duck, Alternatives editor-in-chief Nicola Ross considers the most essential ingredients in any bestseller.
Plus, Youri Cormier contemplates the harsh realities of future world conflict with his essay
comparing Gwynne Dyer’s Climate Wars and Cleo Paskal’s Global Warring. Finally, with an
eye on food trends, Alternatives serves up an exclusive interview with global food activist
Vandana Shiva.
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