Eros & Nature 27.3

21 July, 2001
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Editorial: The Nature of Sex Yes. This is an issue about sex. Not about reproductive biology in animals. Or about pollination in plants. Or even about the weird chemical sex that is genetic engineering. It's about human sexuality, desire, libido. Our erotic nature. What does eros have to do with the environment? One of the main themes in this issue of Alternatives is that sexuality can be used to bind us to habits and attitudes that are self- and nature-destructive or it can help set us free. And in freeing ourselves, we can heal our relationship with nature. ...

Pink Greens - Article in Full
Andil Gosine

Ecoqueers organize in Toronto

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Editorial: The Nature of Sex
Ray Tomalty

Eros Unbound
Kimberly-Anne Ford and William Hipwell
Erotic experience can deepen our connection to nature and liberate our life energies from the cycle of production and consumption.

Falling for Niagara
Karen Dubinsky
Writers have long found the great falls an erotic source of inspiration.

All Consuming Desire
Neil E. Harrison
Advertisers prey on our sexual insecurities to mass market products and services.

Pin-up Protest
Stephanie Croft
Saltspring women bared all in a fundraising calendar. Was it empowerment or exploitation?

From Unnatural Passions to Queer Nature
Catriona Sandilands
Common assumptions linking urban-artificial-queer in opposition to rural-natural-straight deserve closer attention.
Inset: Revolutionary Landdykes Statement by Beverly Brown

Pink Greens
Andil Gosine
Ecoqueers organize in Toronto.

Animals Do Do It
Bruce Bagemihl
Whether humans wish to regard it as natural or unnatural, homosexuality has always occurred in the animal kingdom.

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Collateral Damage
Christine Forand
The US war on cocaine production in Columbia is driving legitimate farmers off the land.

Valley of the Dammed
Evan Davies
Despite resettlement failures, local protests and abandonment by international partners, India continues its massive projects to dam the Narmada River.

On the Doole
Stephen Demeulenaere
Dakar's community exchange system strengthens the local economy and helps the people who need it most.

The High Price of Habitat Protection
Stepan Wood
Under the new Species at Risk Act, the federal government would compensate landowners whose property values are reduced by habitat protection orders. This is a very bad idea.

Gut Reaction
Wayne Roberts
Scottish scientist Arpad Pusztai's research pointed to disturbing imbalances to the digestive systems of rats that ate genetically modified potatoes. Talking about his findings cost him his job.

Reviews
Chaia Heller's The Ecology of Everyday Life - Sherilyn MacGregor
Rick Searle's Phantom Parks - Kevin Van Tighem
Forest L. Reinhardt's Down to Earth - Jim Porter

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