Alejandro Frid

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Changing Tides

An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene

Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and … 220 View
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Gravity Suspended

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … 12 $1.20 Add
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Resisting Least Resistance

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … 12 $1.20 Add
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Coalescing Knowledge

From: Changing Tides

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In Coalescing Knowledge Frid explores the integration of traditional and scientific ways of knowing can merge in many contexts and help us find better ways to manage our relationships to local … 20 $2.00 Add
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Reawakening

From: Changing Tides

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In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Exuberance of Herring

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. 19 $1.90 Add
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Sculpted by River and Story

From: Changing Tides

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Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … 11 $1.10 Add
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Beautiful Protest

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Echoes Across the Lake

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter depicts Frid’s experiences at the hunting and spiritual camp of the Tsilhqot’in First Nations at Teztan Biny (Fish Lake). Through it, Frid further develops on the themes … 11 $1.10 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

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We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add
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At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … 10 $1.00 Add
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Transformation

From: Changing Tides

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In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … 10 $1.00 Add