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Society

12 Hupacasath Sue over China Trade Deal

14 Harper’s War on Science
Funding for dozens of federal scientific programs has been slashed and hundreds of scientists axed over the past year. The Harper Cabinet has moved at blitzkrieg speed to make these cuts

32 Children in the Brickworks of Nepal

Food & Health

9 The Price of Oil
Karen Wristen examines the tar sands impact on global food production

Food & Health

10 Cities Take on Toxics Monitoring
Toronto’s new efforts to protect the air

12 Securing Our Future
The world is facing a potential crisis of food security. The challenge is to produce and supply enough safe and nutritious food in a sustainable way for a growing global population. Edited by Susan MacVittie

13 Waste Not, Want Not
Restaurants donate food for the needy

14 Genetic Engineering: Failed Experiment
Lucy Sharratt examines the multiple ways genetic engineering is failing

The Land

6 BC Forest Update
Jim Cooperman on the need for carbon management and tenure reform

24 BC Government at War with Wolves
Ian McAllister says 2012 continued a government-supported assault on BC’s wolves

Water & Fish

8 Fracking Farce 2012
Joyce Nelson summarizes the on-going developments around fracking from NAFTA loopholes to water abuse in BC

The Land

5 Defending the Coast
Observations on that massive Victoria rally

6 Riding the Pipe
Paul Fletcher on his motorcycle journey along the route of the Northern Gateway Pipeline project and the people he met

31 Paper from Waste Straw
It’s made in India now, but it is on sale at Staples, and there are plans to manufacture it on the Prairies

33 Stewarding Granby Granite Bluffs
It’s in a community watershed, but nonetheless North America Stone wants to quarry the granite from the bluffs

Health & Toxics

12 Since Silent Spring
In 1962 Rachel Carson sounded the warning about the impacts of pesticides and other man made chemicals on  human and environmental health. Fifty years later, we look at some of the most
recent research on toxic chemicals and health and ask: Are our governments doing enough to protect us? Edited by Miranda Holmes

13 Protecting Children
Dr. Bruce Lamphear on the neglected
legacy of Rachel Carson

16 Persistent Organic Pollutants
Fe de Leon and Olga Speranskaya examine how Canada’s Strategy on POPs has fizzled

Food

8 Solutions for Growing Food in the City
Amidst the concrete and skyscrapers of the city, sprouts a determined group of folk who are turning backyards, balconies and vacant lots into a green oasis of food. Our Solutions – Food series includes Vancouver’s Urban Farming Census, Sharing Backyards, youth guerilla gardening, community trust farming, myths about backyard chickens, how to turn lawn into garden and container gardening. Edited by Susan MacVittie

28 Are the Bt Toxins Safe to Eat?
Anne Sherrod explores new research on the effects of pesticides in genetically modified foods

Solutions –Shelter

14 What is Sustainable Shelter?
Edited by Susan MacVittie, this series of articles presents several solutions to housing issues, from co-housing to insulation and solar energy, from local culture and materials and tiny houses to conservation options. The section includes a list of homeowner grants and concludes with Guy Dauncey’s vision of the building industry in 2032

Energy

3 Two Pipelines, One Risk
Arthur Caldicott provides a status update on the pipelines threatening oil on troubled waters

Food & Agriculture

6 What About the Fish?
Catherine Stewart reports on ISA salmon virus

30 Nourishing the Planet
Worldwatch says the small farmers of the world can feed their countries within the decade

34 On the Ground in Lesotho
An orchard in Lesotho succeeds, where the world’s nations failed at the Durban climate talks

Water

8 GE & the Privatization of Water
Joyce Nelson explores GE’s Aqueduct Alliance, ready as BC and Alberta’s new Water Acts turn water licenses into tradable commodities

New Economy

14 Sustainable Shrinkage: Ernest
Callenbach
The author of Ecotopia explains why wealthy economies have to shrink to restore ecological balance and achieve global justice

20 Economies of Well-Being
Canadian economist Mark Anielski explains genuine wealth and the economics of happiness 

Old Economy

23 Plundering BC Hydro: Erik Andersen

The Land

4 Ajax Mine in Kamloops
Endangered species, imperilled lakes, destroyed ranches, toxic metals from a copper mine

32 The Forests of Cortes Come Home
The Klahoose First Nation and the rest of the Cortes community are finally going to share a woodlot for all the Crown land on the island

34 Clayoquot Sound is Sacred Ground
Clayoquot is poised to make history again

Energy