Editorial: No Silver Bullet Here
No Money, No Service – David A. MacDonald
South Africa’s attempts to recover service costs for water and power are harming its poorest citizens.
Inset: IDRC’s Municipal Services Project
Looking Beyond Johannesburg – George Francis
Real solutions to global problems will have to move from talk to action.
Editorial: No Silver Bullet Here
No Money, No Service – David A. MacDonald
South Africa’s attempts to recover service costs for water and power are harming its poorest citizens.
Inset: IDRC’s Municipal Services Project
Looking Beyond Johannesburg – George Francis
Real solutions to global problems will have to move from talk to action.
The Good Mothers – Mike Marcolongo
Romania’s HIV/AIDS activists are mostly poor mothers of thousands of children who contracted the disease due to poor medical practices under the Ceaucescu regime.
Piles of Poison – Jennifer Clapp
Despite NAFTA’s green promises, hazardous waste problems are deepening in Mexico.
Chalillo Chill – Kelly Loverock
Critics slam the dam that a Canadian company wants to build in Belize’s valley of the scarlet macaw.
See No Evil – Regan Reader
Despite a new law and new policies, Export Development Canada retains plenty of room to avoid careful environmental assessments and public scrutiny.
Starting With Stomachs – Dana Wilson
In Lima’s most impoverished neighbourhoods, communal kitchens are survival organizations.
Inset: Plotting Against Poverty – Janice Arnott
In Gandhi’s Footsteps – Geeta Vaidyanathan
Two unusual development organizations foster sustainable livelihoods in the villages of India.
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Reality Cheque – Janice Astbury
Looking at new areas of ecofunding.
Political Science – Stephen Bocking
Inspecting the Oak Ridges Moraine controversy.
Hot Green Websites – Kelly Loverock
Flin Flon Green-Up – Avery Ascher
Citizens are restoring a mine-blasted landscape.
Wiley Urbanites – Meghan Drew-McKinstry
Vancouverites learn to coexist with coyotes.
Pain in the Ear – Kelly Loverock
US Navy sonar system threatens whales.
Angling for Control – David McLaren
New Ontario legislation will give the hunting and fishing industry special privileges.
Green Eggs and Ham – Wayne Roberts
The often embraced environmental arguments against meat has more holes than Swiss cheese.
Reviews
David Engwicht’s Street Reclaiming – Tooker Gomberg
Hugh Brody’s The Other Side of Eden – Tamara Levine
Letters
Kate Davies wants a more strategic approach in protecting children’s health.
Brain Mulch – Ryan Kennedy
Facing the personal pains of a YEPPIE’s first car purchase.