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Gaard, Greta – Alternatives, 1995
Discusses concerns related to the use of recombinant bovine growth hormone in the United States and other countries. Analyses the issue from the perspectives of animal rights, human health, world hunger, concerns of small and organic farmers, costs to the taxpayer, and environmental questions. A sidebar discusses Canadian review of the hormone.…
Descriptors: Community Education, Criticism, Economics, Environmental Education
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Edwards, Gordon – Alternatives, 1976
Summarizes issues regarding the development of nuclear power in Canada and reasons for the organization of the Canadian Coalition for Nuclear Responsibility. (RH)
Descriptors: Agency Role, Energy, Nuclear Warfare, Political Issues
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Cooper, Kathleen – Alternatives Journal, 2002
Reports on sources of lead contamination in the environment of children. Proposes some solutions and presents statistics that relate poverty and lead contamination. (DDR)
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Environmental Education, Foreign Countries, Futures (of Society)
Mingie, Walter – 1984
The best solution to the problems of increased pollution of Quebec lakes and rivers with toxic wastes and increased incidence of pollution related diseases is to educate children, to make them aware of the environment and man's interrelationship with it. Attitudes of concern, based on knowledge, must be developed so that as adults, they will take…
Descriptors: Air Pollution, Conservation Education, Diseases, Educational Responsibility