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Item
Title
Issues/content
A
Throw Away Your Maps—But Watch Out for Dinosaurs
Increasing interdependence; rapid change with globalization; global music; need for new world map
B
Commentary by Bruce Pardy
Critiques on environmental protection progress, leadership, sustainable development and the 2002 Johannesburg World Summit
C
Globalization and Terror
Geopolitics; global economy destroys local economies; global monocultures, terrorism; scarcity results in conflict; ethnic conflict; media influence
D
Bush’s Big-Stick Folly
U.S. foreign policy; perspectives on democracy
E
The Cosmos in Your Own Backyard
Biodiversity; complex natural systems; knowledge of your bioregion
F
There Is a Way to Save Our Oceans—But Is There a Will?
Decline of commercial fish stocks; fish farming technology; critique of Canadian federal policies and the Oceans Act; proposed solutions, e.g., marine protected areas; precautionary principle
G
The Reality Principle
Ecology/economy interconnections; predicted end of oil-based market economy; energy-efficient local economies; frog in pot analogy
H
Canada, U.S. undercutting green gains, UN study says North American consumer culture blamed for eroding progress made on environment
UN Report: North America’s Environment: A Thirty-Year State of the Environment and Policy Retrospective ; environmental degradation related to consumer choices; climate change
I
Alberta’s Potential Kyoto Bonanza
Addressing climate change not costly; economic and environmental technology solutions
J
Put Your Money Where Your Kyoto Mouth Is
Climate change; energy reduction incentives
K
Chalillo Chill
Biodiversity; water quality in Belize; hydro-electric dam development; Canada’s corporate connections, international activism
L
The Route of the Problem
Biodiversity; oil development in Ecuador cloud forest; International Monetary Fund; indigenous peoples; Canada’s corporate connections; activism
M
Breathing Easier
Urban smog; measures to solve this environmental health issue
N
Commentary by Pamela Post
Environmental health issues; synthetic chemicals; pharmaceutical industry; Western-consumer lifestyle
O
Muddled Thinking on Mercury
Worldviews; mercury pollution in North America; energy as key emitting sector; trans-border pollution; Canadian government measures; Canadian Environmental Protection Act; options for solutions
P
The Voice of the Majority
Rich–poor gap; state of global democracy; media influence; views on economic progress
Q
India Gives Community Forest Management a Try
World Bank development project; poverty reduction; local participation in sustainable development; solutions; sustainable forest use
R
What’s an Identity For?
Nationalism; Canada’s sovereignty; purpose of nation state; prosperity
S
Norway Slips into Canada’s Mediator Role on World Stage
Canada’s changing international role; foreign aid, peacekeeping
T
Good News on Arms Sales, Sort Of
Global military spending; U.S. arms sales to developing countries; terrorism; legacy of Kalashnikov
U
Severn Sound Cleanup Cheered
Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement; water pollution; restoration projects; remedial action plans; GIS
V
High School Chemists Bring Groundwater Contamination to Surface
Transnational corporations; water pollution; personal action to find solutions
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