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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Relationalize Property From: Free, Fair and Alive View New Society Publishers	Chapter eight explores pathways to relationalize property, beginning with a case study of a food cooperative store. They then make the case for relationalizing property. There are case studies …	David Bollier	45	2019	$4.50 Add
From Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar Sands Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 8 Harjap Grewal focuses on the Canadian responses to Chinese investments in the tar sands, exploring topics including international trade agreements, xenophobia and the history of …	Harjap Grewal	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From Rethinking Property From: Free, Fair and Alive View New Society Publishers	The seventh chapter examines the relationship between property law and ideas of ownership and commons, and finds them to be largely incompatible. The authors propose ways to rethink property and …	David Bollier	29	2019	$2.90 Add
From Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach to Tar Sands Resistance Part III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 26 Stephan D’Arcy examines strategies to tar sand resistance by Indigenous communities, environmental NGOs, trade unions, and community defence organizations, and how to bring it …	Stephen D'Arcy	11	2014	$1.10 Add
From State Power and Commoning From: Free, Fair and Alive View New Society Publishers	Chapter nine considers how commoning would progress if it were supported by the state in the form of governance and provisioning, and anticipates the challenges of doing so. It clarifies the …	David Bollier	34	2019	$3.40 Add
From Syria: A Tale of Two Pipelines From: Oil and World Politics View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the Syrian conflict, in which Big Powers (US, Russia) and regional powers (Iran, Israel, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Turkey) clash over Sunni-Shia divisions, terrorism, and petroleum. Initial …	John Foster	31	2018	$3.10 Add
From Take Commoning to Scale From: Free, Fair and Alive View New Society Publishers	The final chapter addresses how commons can be scaled up, and why it is important to believe that commons have a significant contribution to make toward global change. The authors introduce the …	David Bollier	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From Tar Sands, Extreme Energy, and the Future of the Climate Movement Part III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 28 Brian Tokar explores lessons from the past and how this can be used in fighting the tar sands, discussing topics including the “No Nukes” movement in North America, …	Brian Tokar	11	2014	$1.10 Add
NEW! Testimonio Canadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala Between The Lines	What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, …	Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell	268	2021	View
The Big Stall How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada	This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil …		304		View
NEW! The Case for Climate Capitalism Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis ECW Press	A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk: anti-market critics such as Naomi Klein …	Tom Rand	274	2020	View
From The civil service falls in line From: Oil’s Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the period of 2009-2014 in Alberta and the way in which civil servants were brought to identify the public interest with the oil …	Kevin Taft	20	2017	$2.00 Add
From NEW! The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The …	John Restakis	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From The Enbridge Pipeline Disaster and Accidental Activism along the Kalamazoo River Part II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 18 Sonia Grant focuses on the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River and the controversies that surrounded cleanup efforts. It discusses topics such the health impacts and gaps in …	Sonia Grant	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The Environmental NGO Industry and Frontline Communities Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 5 Dave Vasey reflects on the deep historical narrative of activism, examining the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and tar sands campaigns, and …	Dave Vasey	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929 From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces View James Lorimer and Company	Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929.	Ed Whitcomb	17	2017	$1.70 Add