Restoration and Community 25.2

27 April, 1999
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Editorial: Restoring What Was, Attacking What Is

Just outside Alternatives' office is a garden. It is also a tiny wilderness. There are no rows of vegetables, no geometric plantings of ornamental flowers, no commercial possibilities, no philosophy of control.

Instead, a tangle of plants and a multitude of bugs, bacteria and other species native to our part of the world are growing more or less as they would have done before the land was tamed. In the core landscape of our campus, it is the only such display of native profusion and natural disorder. ...

Editorial: Restoring What Was, Attacking What Is
Bob Gibson

Beyond Repair
Donna Havinga
Ecological restoration is as much about transforming values and practices as about repairing damaged ecosystems.
Inset: The Transformation of Sudbury by Nigel Richardson
Inset: Restoration as Healing by Solomon Boyé

Eight Questions for Ecological Restorationists
Stephen Murphy
Even the tidy little technical jobs in restoration ecology involve difficult questions of art, science and ethics.

Trail-blazing in False Creek
Don Alexander and Hilda Mckenzie
Building a heritage pathway is one way to link community, history and ecology.
Inset: Possible Route for a False Creek
Inset: Heritage Trail
Inset: Design Aspects
Inset: Current Status

Working Art
Regenerating urban ecosystems with public art.

The Bear in the Kitchen
Eric Higgs
Ecological restoration in Jasper Park raises questions about wilderness in the Disney age.

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Notes

Voters Still Green
Sue Bailey
But the environment is not on governments' agendas.

Once and Future Creeks
Zita Botelho
Plans for stream daylighting promise resurrection of Vancouver waterways.

What is Organic?
Brenda Inouye
Agribusiness wants Canadian and US agencies to weaken organic standards.

Blood and Oil
Tamara Herman
Shooting deaths of young Nigerian activists are linked to Chevron Corporation.

Ironing Out Warming Wrinkles
Helen Baulch
Fertilizing the oceans with iron could help block climate change ­ or it could make things worse.

Reclaimation Art
Thomas Heyd
Robert Morris' Untitled Johnson Pit #30 reclaimed an industrially blasted landscape without forgiving it.

Leeks, Racing Pigeons and Valley of the Bears
Briony Penn
Museums can be tools for community education on restoration.

Reviews

Environmental Change and Challenge: A Canadian Perspective by Philip Dearnden and Bruce Mitchell
About This Life: Journeys on the Threshold of Memory by Barry Lopez
The Water Crisis: Constructing Solutions to Freshwater Pollution by Julie Stauffer

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