Natural Resources

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Crossing the carbon divide

Crossing the carbon divide

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an overview of the arguments presented in previous chapters outling the oil industry’s hold on democratic institutions and concludes … 14 $1.40 Add
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Culture Works

Culture Works

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 15 Christine Leclerc and Rex Weyler explore the power and devastation of the tar sands in a project called “The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres,” poetry written in … ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Economic Skirmishes and Pressures: Whose Oil Is It?

Economic Skirmishes and Pressures: Whose Oil Is It?

From: Oil and World Politics

Discusses economic pressures on oil-producing countries to conform to the Washington Consensus. Examines the use of the IMF, World Bank and regional development banks to promote neoliberalism, … 38 $3.80 Add
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Enclosure and the Commons

Enclosure and the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

What happens when markets become so powerful that they disrupt natural ecosystems, reorder how people conduct their lives and claim ownership of life-forms? It is sometimes difficult to step … 17 $1.70 Add
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Ending the Age of Fossil Fuels and Building an Economics for the Seventh Generation

Ending the Age of Fossil Fuels and Building an Economics for the Seventh Generation

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 21 Winona LaDuke explores the Ojibwe prophecy for the seventh fire and how it relates to collective or individual actions, discussing the Natural Resources Defense Council, disasters … 11 $1.10 Add
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Energy and Climate
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Energy and Climate

Capturing the Imagination of Canada’s Climate Policy

From: Corporate Rules

In this chapter, Jason MacLean argues that the key barrier to addressing climate change in Canada is not a deficit of scientific understanding or our technological capacity, but instead politics. … 18 $1.80 Add
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Expanding the Fossil Fuel Resistance

Expanding the Fossil Fuel Resistance

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 25 Bill McKibben explores the challenges of breaking the hold of power and oil companies’ control in Canada and outlines a call to action. 7 $0.70 Add
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Extractive Economy

Extractive Economy

From: Getting to Zero

Discusses Canadian economic history, focusing on the analysis that inteprets Canada as an extractive economy. Situates PMs Harper and Trudeau’s policies in this context. Examines the … 27 $2.70 Add
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Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the Ground
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Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the Ground

From: Testimonio

Essays in this section: Interview: Yuri Melini, ILO 169 and Community Defence – Tahoe Resources’ Violent Mining Operation – The Peaceful Encampment at La Puya – Guatemalan … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Foreword

Foreword

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

Forward by Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben. ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Forward and Preface
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Forward and Preface

From: Testimonio

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Free, Fair and Alive

Free, Fair and Alive

The Insurgent Power of the Commons

From co-housing and agroecology to fisheries and open-source everything, people around the world are increasingly turning to ‘commoning’ to emancipate themselves from a predatory … 448 View
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From the Tar Sands to “Green Jobs”? Work and Ecological Justice

From the Tar Sands to “Green Jobs”? Work and Ecological Justice

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 27, Greg Albo and Lilian Yap discuss the ecological and social implications climate change has—or should have— in becoming a central parameter for all discussions of work … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic Model
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Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic Model

From: Testimonio

Essays in this section: Profiting from Genocide: The World Bank and IDB’s Bloody History in Guatemala – The Genocidal Chixoy Dam Project – Testimonio: Sebastian Iboy Osorio … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Getting Europe Out of the Tar Sands: The Rise of the UK Tar Sands Network

Getting Europe Out of the Tar Sands: The Rise of the UK Tar Sands Network

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 19 Jess Worth explores The UK Tar Sands Network (UKTSN), discussing solidarity with First Nations in Canada, exposing Canadian lobbying of the British and European Union (EU) … 10 $1.00 Add
Getting to Zero

Getting to Zero

Canada Confronts Global Warming

In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … 248 View