Natural Resources
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From ![]() Crossing the carbon divideFrom: 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 … | Kevin Taft | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Culture WorksPart 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 … | Christine Leclerc; Rex Weyler | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() 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, … | John Foster | 38 | 2018 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() Enclosure and the CommonsFrom: 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 … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Ending the Age of Fossil Fuels and Building an Economics for the Seventh GenerationPart 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 … | Winona LaDuke | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Energy and ClimateCapturing 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. … | Jason MacLean | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Expanding the Fossil Fuel ResistancePart 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. | Bill McKibben | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Extractive EconomyFrom: 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 … | Tony Clarke | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the GroundFrom: 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 … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() ForewordFrom: A Line in the Tar Sands |
Forward by Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben. | Bill McKibben; Naomi Klein | 2 | 2014 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Forward and PrefaceFrom: Testimonio |
Catherine Nolin; W. George Lovell | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add | |
![]() Free, Fair and AliveThe 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 ![]() From the Tar Sands to “Green Jobs”? Work and Ecological JusticePart 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 … | Greg Albo; Lilian Yap | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic ModelFrom: 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 … | Cyril Mychalejko; Nathan Einbinder | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Getting Europe Out of the Tar Sands: The Rise of the UK Tar Sands NetworkPart 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) … | Jess Worth | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
![]() Getting to ZeroCanada 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 |











