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Calgary house goes beyond sustainability.
Home demonstration project of sustainable living/alternative housing The Alberta Sustainable Home/Office (ASH) incorporates solar heating and cooking, cutting-edge insulation, rain water gathering and purification systems, ultra-low flush toilets and other ecologically sound materials and devices. Thousands have toured ASH, where co-designers Jorg and Helen Ostrowski live.
Conserving Wildlife: International Education and Communication Approaches.
Getting a charge out of infomercials.
Sarcastic explanation of a new generation of environmental problems spawned by electric cars - Column Electric cars may require a great increase in the generation of power. A satire on the potential environmental harm caused by electric-powered cars is presented. A tongue-in-cheek proposal to generate power from exercise equipment is advanced.
Hunting grounds: making co-operative wildlife management work.
Traditional and nontraditional sources of input help develop strategy for wildlife management - Includes article summary in French Co-operative wildlife management blends the input of native peoples and their traditional ways of life with the protectionist attitudes of environmentalists and the National Park Services. The result is wildlife management dependent upon a consensus of the affected regions's inhabitants.
Mad cow disease causes slaughter of ten thousand cows in Britain and increased interest in vegetarianism - Includes article about positive effects on Canadian cow industry UK cattle have been ravaged by an epidemic of mad cow disease, which is fatal if transmitted to humans. Still, Britain's government and agricultural industry have resisted calls from environmentalists and others to implement sustainable agriculture and other progressive reforms.
Mediating Environmental Conflicts: Theory and Practice.
Column Almost a fifth of the globe's remaining wilderness areas are in Canada, but with diminishing federal support of the Canadian Park System, necessary protections are unlikely. Completion of the national parks and marine parks systems is in doubt. Privatization poses other threats to Canada's wildlands.
Indigenous peoples of Northern Canada pursue sustainability over development - Includes article summary in French - Includes footnotes Canada's northern native peoples have pursued an economy based on sustainable resources instead of industrial development. This not only moves them closer to self-reliance but also is consistent with the native communities' traditional ways of life.
Northern science undermined: budgets decline as environmental concerns increase.
Less funding available to do environmental research as the need to understand environmental problems increases Northern Canada, an environmentally sensitive region, needs antecedent research before development. However, scarcity in government funding has encouraged scientists to move into better-funded research, such as less objective jointly-funded government/corporate research.
Punching dummies in the North.
Northern Canada resources will once again be exploited, this time instead of oil or whales, diamonds and nickel are sought - Editorial The resources of Northern Canada are once again being pursued as the economic salvation of the northern economies. Diamonds and nickel are to be mined. The northern region of Canada presents itself for yet another round of environmental exploitation.
The Environmental Bill of Rights: A Practical Guide.
The nasty game: how environmental assessment is failing aboriginal communities in Canada's North.
Includes chronology of environmental assessment of the Broken Hills Proprietary Company Ltd., BHP, Diamond Mine - Includes article on BHP settlement of Ok Tedi damage - Includes article summary in French - Cover Story BHP, Australia's largest corporation, is planning to extract twelve billion dollars in diamonds from beneath the Lac de Gras, in Canada's Slave Lake region. The mine will disrupt not only existing ecosystems but also the sustainable economy and eco-friendly lifestyle of the region's indigenous peoples.
