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Seeing Beyond the Trees

26 January, 2012 | Nicola Ross
 ImageA 20-YEAR VETERAN of BC’s forestry sector, Linda Coady served as vice-president of environmental affairs for both MacMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaeuser before joining WWF and then VANOC, where she led efforts to green the Vancouver Olympic Games. Now a distinguished fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Lui Institute for Global Issues, Coady recently plumbed the future of forestry with Alternatives editor-in-chief Nicola Ross.

Nicola Ross: Why did you call Clayoquot Sound “the mother of all conflicts”?

The Beetle’s Wake

17 January, 2012 | Andrew Nikiforuk

“We abuse land because we regard it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we use it with love and respect.”
– Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

Letters to the Editor: 38.1

17 January, 2012 | Ray Tomalty and Pamela Blais

It’s About My Perverse City Book

Re: Ray Tomalty’s review of Perverse Cities: Hidden Subsidies, Wonky Policy and Urban Sprawl, Alternatives, 37:6.

Ray Tomalty claims that I’m too negative on planning. First, I don’t claim that planning is a failure, rather that the results with respect to curtailing sprawl have not been in proportion with the inputs. My point is that under the current situation, financial misincentives conflict with planning objectives. They encourage sprawl, and disincentivise the more sustainable forms of development sought through planning policy.

Atwoodville

10 January, 2012 | Margaret Atwood

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AS I SEE IT, the greenbelt effort, an antithesis to the 1970 Joni Mitchell song line, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot,” is connected to something we call sustainability. By sustainability, I mean – in the short term – the ability to keep on doing what we have been doing without having everything fall apart completely, and – in the long term – maintaining the viability of human beings as a mid-sized but unusual mammalian species.
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