Yves Rocher Foundation’s Women of the Earth Awards
The Yves Rocher Foundation’s Women of the Earth Awards annually rewards three Canadian women who contribute to a greener world. … Continue reading Yves Rocher Foundation’s Women of the Earth Awards
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The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
Thomas E. Pawlick
Vancouver: Greystone Books, 2009, 320 pages.
In The War in the Country, Thomas Pawlick has done a great service. He documents recent tensions and traumas that have battered every rural community across Ontario. Moreover, he reports in the voice of family farmers, small businesses, native people and back-to-the-landers. These stories are worth keeping in your library to be read from time to time – to be reminded of the countryside that once existed.
Economies of scale sent farmers away from local, independent suppliers to better deals in regional supply centres. Larger livestock barns led to demands that municipalities and provincial regulators set standards for [Click here to read more!] Continue reading The War in the Country: How the Fight to Save Rural Life Will Shape Our Future
Indoor Environmental Health Issues, Suzuki Radio, Green Cigarette, Swimming in Oil – GCNews #689
689: 12 July 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada. HEALTHY RETROFITS. People working in the home energy retrofit field … Continue reading Indoor Environmental Health Issues, Suzuki Radio, Green Cigarette, Swimming in Oil – GCNews #689
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley and Heather Boyer, Washington, DC: Island Press, 2009, 166 pages.
Yogi Berra’s famous line, “The future ain’t what it used to be,” certainly rings true for decision makers and citizens concerned with the well-being of urban areas.
Resilient Cities, written by sustainability researchers Peter Newman, Timothy Beatley and Heather Boyer, describes a future in which peak oil and climate change will mean the end of many familiar signs of affluence. We will have to give up urban sprawl, transportation systems organized around personal motor vehicles, our dependence on global trade (especially in food) and, more generally, our ability … [Click here to read more!] Continue reading Resilient Cities: Responding to Peak Oil and Climate Change
Water Award, Energy Award, Hemp Bags, Bicycle Towing – GCNews #688
688: 5 July 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada. PULL THE PLUG. Clean Nova Scotia’s Pull the Plug program … Continue reading Water Award, Energy Award, Hemp Bags, Bicycle Towing – GCNews #688
New Out of the Box issue from Alternatives Journal
Not since Alternatives Journal’s last Out of the Box issue have newsstands seen such action. Alternatives’ newest collection of unconventional stories and ideas has been on the newsstands for only a couple weeks and is already selling out! Get out and be uplifted by Alternatives, where we take you to the outer limits of environmental ideas and action. Searching for Planet B, becoming a Swami, rainmakers meeting meterologists, exploring the mystery of crop circles and lots more — it’s our best summer reading issue yet!
Ask for it at your local newsstand or bookstore – find one near you with the Alternatives Newsstand Locator OR buy the paperless copy online today.
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Racing to Fundraise, New Old House, Haute Barrel, Greentrepreneur – GCNews #686
686: 21 June 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada. NEW DIRECTOR. Axel Tscherniak is Peterborough Green-Up new Executive Director. … Continue reading Racing to Fundraise, New Old House, Haute Barrel, Greentrepreneur – GCNews #686
Some Like It Cold: The Politics of Climate Change in Canada
Climate change, climate forcing, global warming – all these terms frame a collective public debate about the future of the world as we know it. Since that “world” is dynamic and geographically diverse, it is not surprising that political responses range widely from hand-wringing to commitment and resignation, to disbelief and reticence, or even outright denial. Continue reading Some Like It Cold: The Politics of Climate Change in Canada
Bush’s Fringe Government + Welcome to Doomsday
n Bush’s Fringe Government, Garry Wills identifies the origin of the administration’s overwhelming religious support: the recent pragmatic alliance between evangelical Christians and conservative Catholics in the United States. Continue reading Bush’s Fringe Government + Welcome to Doomsday
The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
To address global inequality, the authors acknowledge that they “grappled with the use of terms designating geopolitical regions and decided to use both conventional language reflective of existent mindsets, as well as visionary language that strives to free us from these mindsets.” Continue reading The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
The serious territory is, of course, ecological sustainability, and the philosophical tone is set in the opening and closing chapters. The first essay, by David Lavigne, the book’s editor, provides a concise overview of conservation biology, sustainability and the often difficult relationship between humans and their use of natural resources. Continue reading The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights
Deep Economy
For McKibben, there are three fundamental challenges to Western society’s fixation on growth, which taken together deal an absolute knockout blow to Adam Smith’s claim to fame. First, there is the political argument concerning the glaring economic inequalities that are inherent in capitalism’s dark side. Continue reading Deep Economy