Sustaining the West: Cultural Responses to Canadian Environments

In making this point, which of course others have done in different ways before, the essays collected here highlight "the essential contributions from humanists in solving our environmental crisis" (1). In the course of twenty chapters covering three hundred-plus pages and much of the Canadian West, including, somewhat surprisingly, parts of Ontario, we learn about grass, waste, deforestation, bitumen, escarpments, agriculture, hydroelectricity, and much else. Most of the essays are so accessibly written that it...