In the 2009 New Ecology issue of Alternatives Journal, Thomas Homer Dixon, professor of Environment and Resource Studies at the University of Waterloo, wrote that Ecology would replace Physics as the master science of the 21st Century. In that same issue Stephen Bocking of Trent University argued that Politics, not […]

Andrew McMurry, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Waterloo writes in “the Rhetoric of Resilience” that “In a world that runs on persuasion, the green movement would be wise to re-examine its use of language”. (1m05s – 21m06s dur: 20m05s) And in his second “What’s […]

Introduction 00 – 03m01s (dur: 3m01s) Editorial Overview: 02m54s – 08m12s (dur: 05m17s) "Mending Our Fuelish Ways" A Radio Play in Five Acts: 08m21s – 20m02s (dur: 11m41s) A Word From Our (we wish) Sponsor, Frog Pond Farm Winery: 20m11 – 24m41s (dur: 05m03s) Mark Winfield on Why Renewables Now […]

Do you wonder why everyone doesn't use CF light bulbs? Does green energy's slow progress dumbfound you? Are you curious about why it's so difficult to get Canadians to adopt energy efficiency measures? To find out why, Alternatives Journal invited energy experts from government, academia, industry and science to join […]

University of Waterloo PhD student Kyrke Gaudreau interviewed five of Canada's leading environmental experts on the future of energy in Canada. The participants were these well known names: William Rees, Marc Jaccard, Robert Page, Ian Rowlands and Roydon Fraser. Conveniently he pieced together the hours of responses into a play […]

Wayne Roberts' article in this issue of Alternatives is titled "Eat this Recession" and in it he describes an inventive plan for pulling ourselves up by our own economic bootstraps. He says that if three million Canadians shifted $100 from buying imported food to buying local food, the economic impetus […]

Intro: 00m00 – 03m04 Sierra Club of Canada Executive Director Stephen Hazell says that despite government inaction, Canada's environmental job market is growing 60 per cent faster than employment in the overall economy. (03m05 – 24m06, dur, 21m) Universal social income, guaranteed annual income, basic income guarantee, citizen's income – […]

Introduction (20.82s – 02m01.54 / dur 1m40.72) Editorial Overview (02m07 – 20m36,882 / dur: 18m29.37) Nina Bailey Dick on how outdated (in her opinion) zoning rules almost shut down her Local Foods Buying Club (20m50s – 46m16s / dur. 25m26s) Jennifer Taylor on Masdar City, a planned model city of […]

Well-known musician Bob Wiseman entertained at Alternatives' celebratory launch of The New Ecology issue at the Princess Café on June 16/09. James Walker (The Road Dog Show) interviewed Wiseman at the SoundFM studio afterward. The engaging interview covers a lot of ground — the music industry then, now, seeing "then" […]

Alternatives readers voted Small is Beautiful one of the four "must haves" for any environmentalist's bookshelf. But is the catch-phrase EF Schumacher coined back in 1973 still valid? Alternatives Executive Editor Nicola Ross takes time out from the Alternatives holiday bash to give us an Editorial Overview of the latest […]