Sustaining Livelihoods 28.2

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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Super scooters, Environmental OECD rankings, Thai fish, Ocean wavemill

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.