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From the Grassroots: The Company of Young Canadians, Local Activism, and Sustainable Development in Canada, 1965-1975
Brushett, Kevin
http://niche-canada.org/2020/08/10/from-the-grassroots-the-company-of-young-canadians-local-activism-and-sustainable-development-in-canada-1965-1975/Date Written: 2020-08-10 Publisher: NiCHE Year Published: 2020 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24414 This study draws upon and extends recent work that examines grassroots environmental activism as well as government support for such ventures in the Canadian context. In doing so it examines how the CYC became midwife to initiatives that began to grapple with the meaning of sustainable development, from projects concerned directly with the environmental effects of air and water pollution, to urban countercultural communes and cooperatives experimenting with recycling programs and organic food. Though most of these CYC-sponsored projects and their affiliated community organizations were concerned primarily with economic and social development, it is argued here that members of the Company, like others in the nascent environmental movement of the period, were inevitably being drawn towards assessing issues and using strategies that linked people, land, and community in more broadly sustainable ways. Subject Headings |