Mark Meisner, Editor, Framing Nature: Media Distortions, Corporate PR, and Hopeful Storytelling, special Environmental Communication issue of Alternatives Journal, Vol.23, No.1, Winter 1997.

Table of Contents

Editorial: Imagine No Resources
Mark Meisner

Jock Talk, Goldfish, Horse Logging and Star Wars

Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi
An Alberta pulp company uses a variety of slick communications tools to establish a green image.

News and Conflict
Michael Karlberg
The news media often portray environmental issues as struggles between opposing groups. This can obscure opportunities for constructive public action.

Telling Stories About Places
Sylvia Bowerbank

Ordinary people’s stories about their own places are a rich and untapped resource for understanding connections between human behaviour and environmental conditions.

Anniversary Essay

Three Decades on the Green Beat
Michael Keating
Canada’s most prominent environment reporter reflects on the media’s record and the future of environmental journalism.
Inset: Looking Backward (and Forward) by Gary Gallon

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Notes

Watchdog Just Watches
Suzanne Galloway
Environmental commission remains silent as NAFTA members deregulate.

Hybrid Turkeys Love Green Office
Scott Meyer
New design pleases tenants with energy savings and health benefits.

That Sinking Feeling
Marnie Eggen
Do “artificial reefs” in BC waters increase biodiversity or waste?

Writing It Down and Acting It Up
Nita Chaudhuri
Green audits and community theatre help tenants get healthier housing.

Green on the Screen
Mark Meisner
Computer disks and the World Wide Web are making environmental information much easier to come by for activists and researchers.

Reviews
Mary Richardson, Joan Sherman and Michael Gismondi, Winning Back the Words
Robert Paehlke, ed., Conservation and Environmentalism: An Encyclopedia
Monte Hummel, ed., Protecting Canada’s Endangered Spaces

Harms’ Way: Finishing Second: A Tribute to Almost-Great Moments in Canadian Environmental History 
Dave Harms