Editorial Board

David Brooks
David Brooks, who was educated in geology and economics, is the Director of Water Soft Path Research at the POLIS Project for Ecological Governance and an Associate at International Institute for Sustainable Development. He was a founding director of Canada's Office of Energy Conservation, director of the Ottawa Office of Energy Probe and an associate director with the International Development Research Centre. His main research interests lie in the linkages between environmental protection and the use of minerals, energy and water. His books include Zero Energy Growth for Canada (1981), Water: Local-Level Management (2002), and Making the Most of the Water We Have: The Soft Path Approach to Water Management (2009).

Taarini Chopra
Taarini Chopra came to Canada to attend the Lester B. Pearson United World College of the Pacific. She completed her undergraduate degree in Environmental and Resource Studies at Trent University before joining Alternatives Journal as assistant editor in 2006. An avid market gardener, Chopra is involved in a local community shared agriculture effort. She was the prime editor for the magazine’s annual environmental books issues, Deep Green, in 2009 and will be starting graduate studies in food security in 2010.

Robert Gibson - Chair
Robert Gibson is a professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. His research and applied work focuses on integrating sustainability considerations in land-use decision making in urban growth management, corporate greening initiatives, special-area governance, and environmental assessments at the project and strategic levels. He has been co-editor, editor or editorial board chair of Alternatives Journal since 1984.

Andil Gosine
Andil Gosine is an associate professor of arts at York University. His area of interest is in collaborative works about race, gender, sexuality, nature and nationalism. His research contributions are primarily in environmental justice, transnational sexualities and anti-racist cultural studies. Gosine’s recently published works include Environmental Justice and Racism in Canada: An Introduction (2008), essays in the collection Sex, Power and Taboo: The Caribbean and Beyond (2009), Sexuality, Social Exclusion and Human Rights (2009), Queer Youth Cultures (2008) and Queer Online (2007).

Darcy Higgins
Darcy Higgins is a policy and political advisor based in Toronto. His advocacy and writing on sustainability issues began while growing up in Sarnia, Ontario where he became interested in local air quality concerns. His current interests focus on climate change, energy and food systems as well as diversity, community engagement and social media. He has been active with Alternatives Journal in various ways since attending the University of Waterloo, where he studied Environment and Resource Studies and focused on campus sustainability. He blogs on sustainability and politics at www.darcyhiggins.blogspot.com.

Susan Holtz
Susan Holtz, a long time senior policy analyst with the Canadian Institute for Environmental Law and Policy, studies sustainable development and emergent issues, such as the pharmaceutical contamination of water. She also works on related issues as a mediator, facilitator and editor. Holtz was the founding vice chair of both the Canadian and Nova Scotia Round Tables on the Environment and the Economy. She was also instrumental in setting up the Canadian Environmental Network and has served on advisory bodies, including the Auditor General of Canada's Panel of Senior Advisors, and the Commissioner of Environment and Sustainable Development's External Advisory Panel.

Fraser Los
Fraser Los is a contributing editor with www.thegreenpages.ca, an online environmental information portal and blog. He has written environmentally themed articles for several print magazines, including Canadian Geographic, Maisonneuve and Spacing.  Fraser has also supervised several reforestation contracts throughout Canada and maintains a strong interest in sustainable forestry practices and urban forest restoration. In June 2009, he took on the associate editor role with Alternatives Journal.

Greg Michalenko
Greg Michalenko, is an assistant professor emeritus in Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo. He grew up in Saskatchewan and studied there before spending time at the University of Zurich in Switzerland investigating the chemistry and architecture of mushroom cell walls. Michalenko has worked with Aboriginal communities, enjoys bicycling, picking mushrooms, foreign languages, cooking and some modest gardening. He is the books editor for Alternatives Journal.

Robert Paehlke
Robert Paehlke is a professor emeritus at Trent University where he taught environmental policy and politics for 35 years. He was the first editor of Alternatives Journal and is the author of Environmentalism and the Future of Progressive Politics (1989), Democracy's Dilemma: Environment, Social Equity and the Global Economy (2004), and Some Like It Cold: The Politics of Climate Change in Canada (2008). He was the editor of Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopaedia (1995) and co-edited Managing Leviathan: Environmental Politics and the Administrative State (1990 and 2005).

Robert Page
Robert Page is the TransAlta Professor of Environmental Management and Sustainability at the University of Calgary’s Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment and Economy. He chairs Canada’s National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy and the management committee for the International Standards Organization 14000 series. Prior to spending 10 years as TransAlta Corporation’s vice-president of sustainable development, he was involved in consulting, academic teaching and research, including as the dean of the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Calgary. Page is a member of the board of directors for ENMAX Corp. and for the Banff-Calgary chapter of the Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society.

Wayne Roberts
Wayne Roberts co-ordinates the Toronto Food Policy Council. As a leading member of the City of Toronto’s Environmental Task Force, he helped develop the city’s environmental plan; later, as a staff leader for the Food and Hunger Action Plan, he helped write the pioneering Toronto Food Charter. He writes a regular column for Toronto’s NOW Magazine, a publication that named him one of Toronto’s leading visionaries. In 2008, he received the Canadian Eco-Hero Award presented by Planet in Focus. Roberts earned a PhD in social and economic history, and has written seven books, including Get A Life! (1996), Real Food For A Change (1999) and The No-Nonsense Guide to World Food (2008). He is a regular contributor to Alternatives Journal.

Nicola Ross
Nicola Ross is the executive editor of Alternatives Journal, a post she has held since 2006. The author of three books, Caledon (1999), Healing the Landscape (2001) and Dufferin County (2003), Ross has been published in The Walrus, The Globe and Mail, Calgary Herald, Hamilton Spectator, Harrowsmith Country Life, Point Carbon and others. She writes a regular column on local food for In the Hills magazine and is the recipient of a National Magazine Award for an article on ecological footprint. She was the environmentalist of the year in her hometown in 2006, is a retired triathlete, and spends her holidays aboard her much loved bicycle.

Chris Wood
Chris Wood is an author, speaker and journalist. He first wrote about the environment in the 1970s, winning awards for his coverage of nuclear power and agrochemicals. His most recent book, Dry Spring: The Coming Water Crisis of North America (2008), details how climate change is redistributing water across the map and around the calendar. Wood, his wife and their two bull terriers live in Ladysmith, Vancouver Island.

Research Advisors:
David Waltner-Toews, University of Guelph
Michael Bloomfield, Harmony Foundation
Mark Butler, Ecology Action Centre
Louise Comeau, Sage Climate Project
Michael M’Gonigle, POLIS Project
Ann Mitchell, CIELAP
Steven Peck, Peck & Associates
Ralph Torrie, Torrie Smith Associates

Contributing Editors:
Juli Abouchar
Don Alexander
Deborah Barndt
Fikret Berkes
Angela Bischoff
Stephen Bocking
John Cartwright
Petr Cizek
Jennifer Clapp
Kathleen Cooper
Rick Coronado
Guy Dauncey
Kate Davies
Ross Dobson
John Ferguson
Pierre Filion
William Glenn
Ella Haley
Maura Hanrahan
Janice Harvey
Melody Hessing
Eric Higgs
Stephen Hill
Stuart Hill
Ryan Kennedy
Karen Laine
Heather MacAndrew
Mike Marcolongo
David McDonald
Robert McNair
Mark Meisner
Kent Peacock
Mary Pickering
William Rees
Henry Regier
Wayne Roberts
John Robinson
Nicola Ross
Ian Rowlands
Cate Sandilands
Gary Schneider
John Sinclair
Lindsay Staples
Ray Tomalty
Jean-Guy Vaillancourt
Debora VanNijnatten
David Ward
Mark Winfield
Susan Wismer