Creative Communities 32.4-5

3 December, 2006
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Editorial: Guess Who's Coming to Dinner

Launching street festivals. Planting watermelon. Doling out fake traffic tickets. If you’re wondering what these have in common, read on. They’re ingenious ways of handling issues, prying open the box.

That’s what Alternatives delivers in this Creative Communities issue: fresh approaches to entrenched social problems – poverty, waste, addiction, environmental degradation – through creative engagement. And if you’re tired of the buzzword “engagement,” you might have to live with it until a better one comes along, because community engagement has arrived. ...

Editorial: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
Susan Scott
Editorial
Art, Sweet Art - Article in Full
Beth Carruthers
Adaptive, hybrid and flexible, EcoART moves hearts, changes minds and ultimately alters behaviour.
Epocalypse Now - Article in Full
Anita Krajnc, K.A. Jacobs, L. Wartel
The time for eco-flicks has arrived.
Your Climate Change Library - Article in Full
Green Law - Article in Full
Albert Koehl
Our legal expert builds a case for using the Public Trust Doctrine to protect Canada’s ecosystems.
Greening Galleries - Article in Full
Paul A. Kay
Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art, curated by Stephanie Smith, Chicago and New York: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, and Independent Curators International, 2005.
Welcoming Homer the Tree-Hugger - Article in Full
George Meyer
For the common good, The Simpsons writer George Meyer is enlisting a broader range of souls to save our planet – hypocrites and ignoramuses included.

Guerrilla Gardening
Lorraine Johnson
Neglected, uncared for parts of the city are targets for creative trowels. 

Acting Inside Out
Jen Cressey
Headlines Theatre sets the stage for community expression.

Agitating Art
Evan Webber
Action Terroriste Socialement Acceptable creates ecoactivists in an afternoon.

Party Tricks
Rhiannon Coppin
People’s Republic of East Van protests with flair and innovation. Gateway Project = More Cars.

Beautiful Cities
Glen Murray
Cultural renewal and a creative economy bring wealth to our cities.

On Gottingen Street 
Sue Carter Flinn
LOVE and art take on poverty and racism.

Paint Your Passion 
Leah Burns
Mural making transforms citizen energy into food security.

Two Rivers Run Through It 
Alex Goss
Mexican mural tradition illustrates the inseparable nature of culture and environment.

Behind the Green Screen 
Taarini Chopra & Erin Elliott

Planet in Focus film festival provokes audiences and creates space for discussion.

Once Upon a Land-Use Conflict  Karen Gallant, J. Ball & W. Caldwell
Huron County uses storytelling to mend fences.

More Alternatives

Letters to the Editor 

News & Notes

Science Desk
Steve Stockton
Sex, climate change and shifting behaviour in migratory birds.

Letter from Kabul 
Stephan Fuller
Planning for peace includes ecorestoration in Afghanistan.

Solastalgia
Glenn Albrecht
Environmental damage has made it possible to be homesick without leaving home.

Crisis in Cochabamba 
Juan Carlos Alurralde
A highly inclusive process draws out community solutions to a decades long water conflict.

Publication of this issue was made possible by funding from International Development Research Centre (IDRC); The George Cedric Metcalf Foundation; and support from our many subscribers. We acknowledge the financial support of the Department of Canadian Heritage, Canada Magazine Fund (CMF); Environmental Careers Organization (ECO) Canada; Human Resources and Social Development Canada (HRSDC) Summer Career Placement Program; Ontario Media Development Corporation; Ontario Work Study Plan; the Waterloo Work Placement Program; and the Publications Assistance Program (PAP) toward our mailing costs. The support of the Faculty of Environmental Studies at the University of Waterloo and the Waterloo Environmental Studies Endowment Foundation is appreciated.
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