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Ecological sustainability Unions and environmentalists can work together to promote the efficient extraction of resources, economic security and other community concerns. Moreover, communities can realize ecological sustainability if they would just share in the responsibility of raising environmental standards.
Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc. - Includes related article on Haliburton Forest and Wild Life Reserve Ltd. Westwind Forest Stewardship Inc received the first Sustainable Forest License from the Ontario government to oversee forest management planning activities for the country's public forests. It will implement a certification program designed to support the different interests of forest stakeholders.
Humor on climate change A so-called global visionary presents his humorous idea about establishing a global climate exchange program wherein countries can purchase climatic conditions from other nations. The program would also accommodate a levy on each transaction to support the efficient use of resources.
From Mondragon to America: Experiments in Community Economic Development.
Commentary The motion picture industry is criticized for using locations as a commodity serving a superficial marketing use. It should promote locations with a good sense of landscape so that audiences can share in the ecology and history surrounding these places.
Land stewardship law in New Brunswick New Brunswick has passed a law that will permit landowners to utilize conservation easements to ecologically protect their land. The law addressed other needs and concerns related to land stewardship.
Effects of Chile's economic policies on its environment - Includes related article on Chile's Quebrada Blanca copper mine Chile's neo-liberal economic policies have negatively affected its environment. The country's forests and fishery resources have been exploited to the brink of extinction. Moreover, several rivers in Chile have become polluted resulting from the runoff of industrial and chemical wastes.
Our Home or Native Land? What Governments' Aboriginal Policy Is Doing to Canada.
Redeeming the Time: A Political Theology of the Environment.
Sold American: The Story of Alaska Natives and Their Land, 1867-1959.
Canadian climate change efforts - Includes related article on minimizing greenhouse gases - Cover Story Canada appears to have suffered another failure in its efforts to promote climate change initiatives. The country's energy and environment ministers decided to carry out studies on the impact of minimizing greenhouse-gas emissions on the economy before supporting future environmental policies.
Brazil's decision to abandon plans in a navigation project The Brazilian government has decided to abandon a navigation project that environmental groups and scientists say will devastate the Pantanal wetlands. It has also decided to carry out minor projects designed to enhance navigation and protect the ecological area.
The Transformation of Capitalist Society.
U'wa threaten suicide in fight against oil exploration.
Tribe from Colombia Five thousand members of the U'wa tribe from Colombia claimed that they will commit mass suicide if the government does not stop oil exploration activities in their ancestral lands. They fear that the exploration activities will bring ecological destruction to their native territory.
The Lands for Life land-use planning exercise was designed by Ontario's Ministry of Natural Resources to protect 46 million hectares of land from logging activities. It also advocates the use of provincial standards that advocate penalties for changes to extended tenure agreements.
