Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors

1. Colin M. Coates, Canadian Countercultures and their Environments, 1960s–1980s

Section 1: ENVIRONMENTAL ACTIVISM

2. Sharon Weaver, Back-to-the-Land Environmentalism and Small Island Ecology: Denman Island, BC, 1974–1979

3. Nancy Janovicek, “Good Ecology Is Good Economics”: The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project, 1973–1979

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

5. Ryan O’Connor, Countercultural Recycling in Toronto: The “Is Five Foundation” and the Origins of the Blue Box

6. Daniel Ross, “Vive la Vélorution!”: Le Monde à Bicyclette and the Origins of Cycling Advocacy in Montreal

Section 2: PEOPLE, NATURE, ACTIVITIES

7. Henry Trim, An Ark for the Future: Science, Technology, and the Canadian Back-to-the-Land Movement of the 1970s

8. Matt Cavers, Dollars for “Deadbeats”: Opportunities for Youth Grants and the Back-to-the-Land Movement on British Columbia’s Sunshine Coast

9. David Neufeld, Building Futures Together: Western and Aboriginal Countercultures and the Environment in the Yukon Territory

10. Megan J. Davies, Nature, Spirit, Home: Back-to-the-Land Childbirth in BC’s Kootenay Region

11. Alan MacEachern, with Ryan O’Connor, Children of the Hummus: Growing Up Back-to-the-Land on Prince Edward Island

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