Alternatives Journal: Building Resilience
Waterloo, Ontario – A Google search for “sustainability” may not bring up as many hits as one looking for “Harry … Continue reading Alternatives Journal: Building Resilience
Category: Around the Web
Campus Ecostore, Going Solar, and Green Budget – GC News #669
669: 22 February 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada. RETIREMENT. Sue McGregor-Hunter, Executive Director of Peterborough Green-Up, will retire … Continue reading Campus Ecostore, Going Solar, and Green Budget – GC News #669
Conserving Eastern Ontario’s Frontenac Arch
Kingston, Ontario – The Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) is one step closer to its goal of protecting the ecological … Continue reading Conserving Eastern Ontario’s Frontenac Arch
Olympic Footprint
Citizen Shift’s latest dossier is up and running, featuring stories and contributions concerning the effects of the Olympics on Vancouver, … Continue reading Olympic Footprint
White Roofs, Thrilling Retreat, and Fuel-Efficient Vehicles – GC News #668
668: 16 February 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada. THRILLING RETREAT. “Strategic positioning†of Green Communities in the next … Continue reading White Roofs, Thrilling Retreat, and Fuel-Efficient Vehicles – GC News #668
Add Some Green to the “Greenest” Olympics in History
Comprised of a community of environmentally-active athletes and supporters, Preparing the Trail 2010 is running a national, not-for-profit tree planting … Continue reading Add Some Green to the “Greenest” Olympics in History
Waste Not, Sustainable Street, and Unlikely Places – GC News # 667
667: 8 February 2010 – Published by Green Communities Canada SCHOOL TRAVEL PROJECT. Building on a successful pilot, a partnership … Continue reading Waste Not, Sustainable Street, and Unlikely Places – GC News # 667
New CCC publication: Climate vs. Weather
Despite the planet’s warming climate, recently it has been rather cold in southern Manitoba. People often assume that just because the weather is now frigid, or since we had a relatively cool summer, that global warming is definitely not a problem anymore. Climate Change Connection has created a new pamphlet Hot Topic: Climate vs. Weather to address this issue by clearly distinguishing the difference between weather and climate. Continue reading New CCC publication: Climate vs. Weather
The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
Roger A. Pielke, Jr.
New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 188 pages.
A stranger approaches you and asks for a referral to a restaurant in your town. How would you respond?
With this engaging question, Roger Pielke, an environmental studies professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, opens his book concerning four idealized ways that science and environmental policy interact.
It would probably surprise the stranger if you handed him… [Click here to read more!] Continue reading The Honest Broker: Making Sense of Science in Policy and Politics
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
Taras Grescoe
Toronto: HarperCollins Publishers
2008, 326 pages.
Do you treat yourself to oysters or salmon from time to time? Are you tempted by tiger shrimp? Is tuna your comfort food?
If you are among the billions of people around the world who enjoy fish and other delicacies from the sea, this book is for you. Depending on which types of seafood you consume, you may be driving a species toward extinction, or contributing unknowingly to the destruction of coastal ecosystems and the local human communities that depend on them. Closer to home, you may be putting your own health at risk…. [Click here to read more!] Continue reading Bottomfeeder: How to Eat Ethically in a World of Vanishing Seafood
The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability
The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Ma
naging for Sustainability
David Waltner-Toews, James J. Kay and Nina-Marie E. Lister (eds.)
New York: Columbia University Pressds
2008, 383 pages.
A copy of The Ecosystem Approach should be placed on the desk of every engineer, manager, environmentalist, politician and teacher. It is one of the first comprehensive efforts to discuss environmental management and sustainability in the interrelated fields of complexity and post-normal science (science where the facts are uncertain, the values are in dispute, the stakes are high and there is a sense of urgency – think climate change)… [Click here to read more!] Continue reading The Ecosystem Approach: Complexity, Uncertainty, and Managing for Sustainability
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine and The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century
Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine Gary Paul Nabhan, Washington, DC: Island Press 2008, … Continue reading Where Our Food Comes From: Retracing Nikolay Vavilov’s Quest to End Famine and The Murder of Nikolai Vavilov: The Story of Stalin’s Persecution of One of the Great Scientists of the Twentieth Century