1. Architecture for People
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1980
   A book of possible solutions for the problems of modern architecture.
2. Canada's Great Divide
   The politics of the growing gap between rich and poor in the 1990s
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   Over the course of the 1990s, Canada's growing gap has become a slippery slope for a growing number of middle income familes sliding towards the bottom of the income ladder.
3. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   
4. ClimateFast
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
5. Deep Ecology
   Living as if Nature Mattered
   Resource Type: Book
   
6. Falling Behind
   The State of Working Canada, 2000
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2000
   An accessible collation of data and analysis, analyzed from a progressive perspective, about the social and economic realities of working people in Canada.
7. The Growth Illusion
   How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1999
   Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
8. Land and Community
   Crisis in Canada's Countryside
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1988
   Sim's thesis is that rural society is overlooked due to urban dependence upon "great associations," economies of scale, and other socio-cultural institutions of unmanageable size.
9. Networks of Centres of Excellence of Canada
   Media Profile in Sources
   Resource Type: Organization
   
10. Soft Sell
    Quality of Working Life Programs and the Productivity Race
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1987
    Quality of Working Life is a grab-bag of programs that promise workplace improvements and greater job satisfaction in exchange for increased productivity on the part of Canadian workers. But, says Don Wells, the promise of a new way to satisfy workers' needs has been proven false. Wells shows that QWL programs can present a direct, though carefully hidden, threat to the union movement.

Experts on Quality of Life in the Sources Directory

1. World Intellectual Property Organization