- Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2001 Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
- Community Workshops for the Environment
An Organizer's Manual Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2000 The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America
A Report for the Noise Pollution Clearinghouse Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2000 An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
- Earth Day Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1999 Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
A Review of the Literature Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2004 It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
- Jetskis Should Be Banned
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1998 To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
- The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2008 I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them. Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Organizing Outdoor Volunteers
Second Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 The heart of the book is quite simple-focus on primary tasks with volunteered-centered projects that have an immediate positive effect on the environment. One success creates the motivation for further efforts. It is a how-to book that presents a step-by step approach to building or strengthening conservation organizations without getting bogged down in bureaucracy.
- Places in Need - Mountain Bike Damage
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Trails are easily and seriously degraded by mountain bike use especially when those bikes are ridden on wet or muddy trail.
- The Psychology of Mountain Biking
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2000 The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
- A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1999 Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- State of the Ark
An Atlas of Conservation in Action Resource Type: Book
- Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
- Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 1997 To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
- Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter Published: 2009 Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
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