Table des matières

 

Acknowledgements
Contributors

Canadian Countercultures and Their Environments 1930s–1980s
Colin M. Coates

Section 1: Environmental Activism

Back–to–the–Land Environmentalism and Small Island Ecology: Denman Island, BC 1974&ndash1979
Sharon Weaver

"Good Ecology Is Good Economics" The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project, 1973–1979
Nancy Janovicek

American Immigration, the Canadian Counterculture, and the Prefigurative Environmental Politics of the West Kootenay Region, 1969–1989
Kathleen Rodgers

Countercultural Recycling in Toronto: The "Is Five Foundation" and the Origins of the Blue Box
Ryan O’Connor

"Vive la Vélorution!": Le Monde á Bicyclette and the Origins of Cycling Advocacy in Montreal
Daniel Ross

Section 2: People, Nature, Activities

An Ark for the Future: Secience, Techonlogy and the Canadian Back–to–the–Land Movement of the 1970s
Henry Trim

Dolars for "Deadbeats": Opportunities for Youth Grants and the Back–to–the–Land Movement British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast
Matt Cavers

Building Futures Together: Western and Aboriginal Countercultures and the Environment of the Yukon Territory
David Neufeld

Nature, Spirit, Home: Back–to–the–Land Childbirt in BC’s Kootenay Region
Megan J. Davies

Children of the Hummus: Growing Up Back–to–the–Land on Prince Edward Island
Alan MacEachern with Ryan O'ConnorIndex

La description

Those who moved “back-to-the-land” following the turbulent 1960s engaged with environmental issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society. This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of key environment debates in the 1970s and 1980s. Chapters examine a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns—activism, midwifery, organic farming, recycling, urban cycling, and communal living—from the Yukon to Atlantic Canada.

Reviews

 

Canadian Countercultures and the Environment provides an insightful and engaging overview of this understudied aspect of Canadian environmental history. A well researched survey of the broad range of approaches to environmental politics fostered by the Canadian counterculture. In focusing on the legacies of these actions, it highlights the countercultural antecedents of many contemporary environmental debates and situates taken-for-granted environmental practices within this cultural history.

—James Rhatigan, BC Studies

 

 

Youth countercultures of the late twentieth century undoubtedly influenced the development of environmental thought and activism in Canada. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment offers a rich collection of essays that explore the scale and significance of that activism.

—Sean Kheraj, Environmental History

 

 

This interesting and important collection of essays demonstrates that in bringing the values of consumption–oriented mainstream society into question, the youthful countercultural movement—including those who attempted to create their own utopias—made an important and lasting contribution to the environmental movement in Canada and further afield

—Jack Little, Network in Canadian History and Environment