New Out of the Box issue from Alternatives Journal

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!

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New Eco Books issue – just released

Alternatives Journal’s latest issue – New Eco Books – features over 60 titles to keep you buried in books this spring and throughout the year. Stephen Bocking compares dystopic future visions from two of Canada’s finest novelists, Douglas Coupland and Margaret Atwood, Nicola Ross analyzes the success of bestseller Slow Death By Rubber Duck, and Ellen Desjardins interviews activist Vandana Shiva. Atwood’s The Year of the Flood also gets a stunning visual interpretation from graphic novelist Evan Munday. Green Book Reviews will be featuring many of these great articles in the coming weeks.

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Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods and Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

ased on his analysis of dozens of studies, reports and personal accounts, Smith reveals shocking instances when governments and corporations misled, lied and covered up evidence about the health and safety risks of GM foods. These deceptions allowed the products to be fast-tracked to the market, thereby externalizing the costs of this infant science. Continue reading Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods and Genetically Modified Diplomacy: The Global Politics of Agricultural Biotechnology and the Environment

A Private History of Awe

At the age of four, a thunder and lightning storm became a defining moment for Scott Russell Sanders. He felt “the tingle of a power that surges through bone and rain and everything … the force that animates nature and mind….” Using science he could explain what caused the thunder and lightning but not why the experience took on such meaning for him. Looking back on that moment, Sanders recognizes the feeling as “awe.” He says, “The search for communion with this power has run like a bright thread through all my days.” Using skillful prose to bring the ineffable into focus, Sanders guides the reader through other “why” questions – the ethical, political and spiritual struggles of his life. Continue reading A Private History of Awe

Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America

Wood identifies two possible strategies to address our uncertain freshwater future. We can build more dams, reservoirs, river diversions, aqueducts, canals, pipelines, wells, recycling plants and desalination facilities. Alternately, “we can choose how we use what we have now.” The latter, an approach Wood advocates, involves changing the way we manage our watersheds; using ecologically sound appliances and irrigation techniques; and changing our markets, our bookkeeping, and the laws that undervalue this life- giving resource. Continue reading Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

Perhaps it is the economic crisis. Maybe it is climate change, soaring extinction rates or the ever-widening gap between the rich and poor. Or then again, it could simply be the nagging sense among more and more people that the human project has somehow gone awry. Whatever the case, in recent years, we have witnessed an explosion of popular interest in books that question, even excoriate, the most fundamental assumptions of our current, growth-at-all-costs economic system. Continue reading Right Relationship: Building a Whole Earth Economy

Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster

In his newest book, Managing Without Growth, York University professor Peter Victor makes a convincing case that rich nations, such as Canada, can abandon economic growth as a national goal without compromising their citizens’ happiness. He suggests that helping developing nations approach the Western world’s standard of living would provide a better and safer future. Continue reading Managing Without Growth: Slower by Design, Not Disaster