Colin M. Coates est professeur d'Ãtudes canadiennes au Collège universitaire Glendon, Université York. David Neufeld a Parks Canada historian, has worked on Chilkoot Trail National Historic Site for over ten years. Based in Whitehorse, he does research on the Kluane National Park Reserve, the Yukon River, Dawson City and the Klondike goldfields, and the Yukon north slope.

• AcknowledgementsContributorsCanadian Countercultures and Their Environments 1930s-1980sColin M. CoatesSection 1: Environmental ActivismBack-to-the-Land Environmentalism and Small Island Ecology: Denman Island, BC 1974&ndash1979Sharon Weaver"Good Ecology Is Good Economics" The Slocan Valley Community Forest Management Project, 1973-1979Nancy JanovicekAmerican Immigration, the Canadian Counterculture, and the Prefigurative Environmental Politics of the West Kootenay Region, 1969-1989Kathleen RodgersCountercultural Recycling in Toronto: The "Is Five Foundation" and the Origins of the Blue BoxRyan O'Connor"Vive la VÉlorution!": Le Monde Á Bicyclette and the Origins of Cycling Advocacy in MontrealDaniel RossSection 2: People, Nature, ActivitiesAn Ark for the Future: Secience, Techonlogy and the Canadian Back-to-the-Land Movement of the 1970s Henry TrimDolars for "Deadbeats": Opportunities for Youth Grants and the Back-to-the-Land Movement British Columbia's Sunshine CoastMatt CaversBuilding Futures Together: Western and Aboriginal Countercultures and the Environment of the Yukon TerritoryDavid NeufeldNature, Spirit, Home: Back-to-the-Land Childbirt in BC's Kootenay RegionMegan J. DaviesChildren of the Hummus: Growing Up Back-to-the-Land on Prince Edward IslandAlan MacEachern with Ryan O'ConnorIndex

...interesting and important collection of essays demonstrates that in bringing the values of consumption-oriented mainstream society into question, the youthful countercultural movement including those who attempted to create their own utopias ------------ made- an important and lasting contribution to the environmental movement in Canada and further afield. Reviewed by J.I. Little, Professor Emeritus, History Department, Simon Fraser University