Alternatives Journal 24.4

Climate Change 24.4

Editorial: Child of the Weekend Gets a Job – Stephen Bocking

Stopped Cold – Heather A. Smith
Action by Canada on climate change has been blocked by opposition both inside and outside government.
Inset: Trading Scheme Offers One Way to Cut Greenhouse Gases by Trevor Fleck
Inset: Key Events

Editorial: Child of the Weekend Gets a Job – Stephen Bocking

Stopped Cold – Heather A. Smith
Action by Canada on climate change has been blocked by opposition both inside and outside government.
Inset: Trading Scheme Offers One Way to Cut Greenhouse Gases by Trevor Fleck
Inset: Key Events

Allied Forces – Mae Burrows
Unions and environmentalists can work together for jobs and ecological sustainability.
Inset: Resolution

Lessons from a Latin Partner – M.A. Altieri and A. Rojas
Two decades of free market policies have spurred Chile’s economy, but at a steep price.
Inset: Chilean Miners Dig Canada by C. McLaughlin

Swamp Creatures Relieved – Shannon Curry
Brazil abandons huge project in Pantanal wetlands.

Community Logs – Jennie Barron
Westwind Forest Stewardship takes a nonprofit approach to forest management in Muskoka.

Smart Wood in Haliburton -Brent Wootton

Land at Ease – Kevin J. Gibson
New Brunswick becomes the most recent province to use conservation easements to protect the land.

In Film, Out of Place – Don Gayton
Movies are increasingly telling us that place is a mere commodity, to be traded and substituted at will.

Reviews
Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land 1867-1959 by Donald Craig Mitchel 
Our Home or Native Land? What Governments’ Aboriginal Policy Is Doing to Canada by Melvin H. Smith 
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development by Greg MacLeod 
The Transformation of Capitalist Society by Zellig S. Harris 
Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment by Stephen Bede Scharper

Harms’ Way: Debugging the Climate – Dave Harms