Recently added articles from Alternatives Journal:
Countryside is an option.(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2008; Ross, Nicola ... I LOOK OUT over the Credit River valley and the Niagara Escarpment from my home office. It's early May and soon leaves will have burst open. But for a few days, there is an ephemeral green tinge to the maple and beech, basswood and birch trees that cling to the cliffs that drop down to the ...
Bottled out.(CANADIAN NEWS)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Bottles containing Bisphenol A were the first to get dunked. Now the Canadian Federation of Students has partnered with the Polaris Institute and the Sierra Youth Coalition to establish bottled-water-free zones on Canadian campuses. Launched on World Water Day (March 22), the campaign ...
Pinot vert.(CANADIAN NEWS)(waste management of wineries)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Inniskillin Wines of Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario will be sending its wastes to StormFisher Biogas in nearby Port Colborne. Inniskillin, which operates about 100 hectares of vineyards, will supply seeds and other waste to the planned StormFisher waste-to-energy plant. Previously, ...
Bearly trying.(CANADIAN NEWS)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Polar bears are on their way to being better protected in Manitoba. In February, the province declared the bears to be"- threatened" under its endangered species legislation. The announcement came months after a Suzuki Foundation report on Canada's polar bears identified significant ...
Reckless and stupid.(Letter to the editor)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008; Qualman, Darrin ... The Cupboard is Bare," an article I wrote for Alternatives (32:3, 2006), predicted an intensifying food crisis. At that time, in a desperate effort to explain the farm income crisis, policy-makers were talking about food "over--supply." "glut," and "overproduction." We now know they were ...
Going paperless.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Atfield, Alex ... Just over a year ago, I had the pleasure of discovering your magazine in Trent University's library. Since then, I have been delighted whenever a new issue has appeared on our shelves, and disappointed when it is already in someone else's hands. While reading Alternatives, I've ...
Humour works.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Cismas, Cristian ... It came to my attention while reading "Alternatives (Brain Mulch, 34:1, 2008) that there are surprisingly few environmental jokes used in our society. While I believe that our environment should in no way be perceived as a witty topic. the use of humour ...
Beetle juice.(Letter to the editor)
Aug 01, 2008; Khankhet, Sirisopha ... Insects are an excellent source of nutrients, but unfortunately, Western culture sees them as pests ("Eating Insects," 34:1, 2008). A most promising concept is that these nutritious ...
Bayer blames god.(Bayer Crop-Science)
Aug 01, 2008; Clapp, Jennifer ... WHAT DOES A GOVERNMENT do when it discovers that there have been illegal releases of genetically modified organisms within its borders? And that the release involved GMOs that were never approved for human consumption or even for commercial planting? In the United States, the answer in a ...
Whole new BALLE game.(Business Alliance for Local Living Economics)
Aug 01, 2008; Brooks, Keith ... THE ENVIRONMENT and the economy are locked in a struggle that shows few signs of resolutions-that is, unless you're familiar with the Business Alliance for Local Living Economics, otherwise know as BALLE. Formed in 2001, BALLE has over 50 networks in North America, boasting over ...
Paper dragons.(CANADIAN NEWS)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... Quick, how many pages of reports, emails, letter or memos have you printed out today? If you are an average Canadian employee, according to a recent Leger Marketing poll, the number is 30. More astonishing is the finding that nearly a dozen of those pages will be tossed-with luck, into a ...
Eden Mills goes carbon neutral.(CANADIAN NEWS)(Ontario)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... A picturesque village with a big goal, Eden Mills, Ontario wants to be the first carbon-neutral community in North America. Home to 350 people, Eden Mills has adopted a grassroots approach to tackle the issue of climate change. Local green power generation and tree planting to sequester ...
Inuit halt uranium mine.(CANADIAN NEWS)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... By a one-vote margin, members of the Nunatsiavut Assembly representing the Labrador Inuit halted uranium mining on their land for three years. The move, according to Nunatsiavut Government Lands and Resources Minister William Barbour, had to do with" ... concerns from the Inuit people over ...
Not easy being green.(NEWS FROM AWAY)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... On country roads it's not uncommon to see road kill. Oftentimes raccoons seem to be hard hit, but it turns out that the carcasses of these adorable pests are outnumbered by amphibians. In a 17-month study, researchers from Purdue University in the US found that almost 90 per cent of the ...
International Environment Day.(NEWS FROM AWAY)(Brief article)
Aug 01, 2008 ... The United Nations Environment Programme encourages the world to celebrate International Environment Day each year on June 5. This year's theme, Kick the Habit! Towards a Low Carbon Economy, marks the 35th such event. The main elebration will be held in New Zealand, but festivities take ...
Burgerville.(restaurant chain)
Aug 01, 2008; Stock, Peter ... THE SCENE: a fast-food drive-through somewhere in the Pacific Northwest. (the crackle of a fast-food order speaker) Order Speaker Welcome! If you'll turn off your engine, I'll take your order. Driver I'll have a free-range turkey burger--no, make that an ...
Saving the land that feeds us: how to revitalize our near-urban farmland and curb sprawl.
Aug 01, 2008; Stew, Hilts ... DAVE THOMPSON pocketed a cool $1.75 million a couple of days after the Ontario government released details about its greenbelt and Thompson learned that his land sat just outside its borders. Four years from now, he'll receive the balance-another $1.75 million earned from the sale of his ...
Bringing the farm to the inner city: how one CSA is improving food security in Winnipeg.(community shared agriculture)
Aug 01, 2008; Belik, Vivian ... IN WINNIPEG'S inner city, grocery stores that sell fresh affordable produce are hard to come by, so low-income residents are more apt to buy potato chips than fresh potatoes. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Shift your gaze 30 kilometres south from what Dan Wiens refers to as ...
Growing organic: Mennonite farmers are well suited for organic farming.
Aug 01, 2008; Burtt, Bob ... THE NUMBER of farmers clad in their traditional black suits in attendance at this year's organic conference in Guelph, Ontario should put smiles on the faces of people hoping to see an increased supply of chemical-free produce in Southwestern Ontario. A group of Mennonite farmers in and ...
Citizen monitors: if it wasn't for Sharon and Jim Bradley, Lake Wilcox may have been totally overrun by sprawl.
Aug 01, 2008; Crandall, Debbe ... LAKE WILCOX should be safe. It is on the Oak Ridges Moraine, an area specially protected under Ontario planning law. But if Lake Wilcox isn't ruined by spreading suburbia, it will owe more to Sharon and Jim Bradley than to planning policies. [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] ...