Citizen Activism: Looking Inside the Environmental Movement 20.2

Editorial: Citizen Activism and the quest for sustainability
Don Alexander

Local Stewardship: Training Ground for an Environmental Vanguard
Sally Lerner
Inset: Top-down meets bottom-up down under by Anna Carr

Heeding Rachel Carson’s Call: Reflections of a Home-Making Eco-Crusader
Helen MacDonald

Expanding Worldviews: Social Movement Backgrounds Bring a Deeper Analysis to the Environmental Movement
Robert B. Feagan

Environmentalism and the Politics of Invisibility
Ted Schrecker

More Alternatives

Canadian, World, Technology Notes

Harms’ Way: Lawnmower Man
Dave Harms

Coalition claims biotechnology regulations are inadequate
Greg Cento
Inset: Concern over biotechnology side-effects

Global Change Game becomes living exercise in sustainability
Jessica Schafer

Japanese consumer co-ops create caring community, sound environment
J.G. Craig
Inset: Co-op Kanagawa’s “Co-op Ecology Programme”

A First Nation elder’s perspective on the environment: An interview with Lavina White
Don Alexander

Reviews

The Raging Grannies Songbook by Jean McLaren and Heide Brown, eds.
Circles of Strength: Community Alternatives to Alienation by Helen Forsey, ed.
Earth Follies: Coming to Feminist Terms with the Global Environment Crisis by Joni Seager
The Way: An Ecological World-view by Edward Goldsmith
Biotechnics and Society: The Rise of Industrial Genetics by Sheldon Krimsky
Biotechnology: An Activist’s Handbook by The Vermont Biotechnology Group
Sustainable Urban Development in Canada: From Concept to Practice by the Intergovernmental Committee on Urban and Regional Research
Sustainable Use of Canada’s Forests: Are We on the Right Path? by Kim Sanderson, ed.
Balancing Act: Environmental Issues in Forestry by Hamish Kimmins

Books Received for Review

Podium: Environmental policy and the failure of the consultation process
David Bennett