Nicola Ross

Seeing Beyond the Trees

26 January, 2012 | Nicola Ross
 ImageA 20-YEAR VETERAN of BC’s forestry sector, Linda Coady served as vice-president of environmental affairs for both MacMillan Bloedel and Weyerhaeuser before joining WWF and then VANOC, where she led efforts to green the Vancouver Olympic Games. Now a distinguished fellow at the University of British Columbia’s Lui Institute for Global Issues, Coady recently plumbed the future of forestry with Alternatives editor-in-chief Nicola Ross.

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Editorial: Out of This World

1 June, 2010 | Nicola Ross

I often say that my “church” is the one with the great big blue ceiling. People usually chuckle as they grasp my meaning, though I’m not certain that they take me very seriously.

But the marriage of nature and spirit appears to be simmering just below the surface for many who care about these things. Each time we open the gates at Alternatives Journal and ask for submissions with no particular theme, we are flooded by queries in which spirit figures large.

Editorial: Resilience for Dummies

17 February, 2010 | Nicola Ross

Over Christmas, I used my recently learned Spanish. Each time I understood a taxi driver or shopkeeper, I felt a great sense of awe. What once seemed to be a jumble of indistinguishable sounds had sub-divided into individual words. It was as if a microscope in my brain were able to bear down on the language’s component parts.

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