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Studies of the radical environmental politics of the 1960s have tended to downplay the extent to which much of that countercultural intellectual and social ferment continued into the 1970s and 1980s. Canadian Countercultures and the Environment adds to our knowledge of this understudied period. This collection contributes a sustained analysis of the beginning of major environmental debates in this era and examines a range of issues related to broad environmental concerns, topics which emerged as key concerns in the context of Cold War military investments and experiments, the oil crisis of the 1970s, debates over gendered roles, and the increasing attention to urban pollution and pesticide use.No other publication dealing with this period covers the wide range of environmental topics (among others, activism, midwifery, organic farming, recycling, urban cycling, and communal living) or geographic locales, from Yukon to Atlantic Canada. Together, they demonstrate how this period influenced and informed environmental action and issues in ways that have had a long-term impact on Canadian society.
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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'Connor
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