Global Warming
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
![]() Facing the Climate EmergencyHow to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth |
As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are … | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 162 | 2020 | View |
![]() 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 … | Tony Clarke | 248 | 2018 | View |
![]() Oil’s Deep StateHow the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa |
This book addresses the question of democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat … | Kevin Taft | 256 | 2017 | View |
![]() Renewal of LifeHow Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy |
Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the … | Andres R. Edwards | 210 | 2020 | View |
![]() Resilient AgricultureCultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate |
Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious … | Laura Lengnick | 370 | 2015 | View |
![]() The Big StallHow 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 … | Donald Gutstein | 304 | 2018 | View |
![]() Thirty Years of FailureUnderstanding Canadian Climate Policy |
Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a … | Robert MacNeil | 192 | 2019 | View |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Identifies how the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray should cause Canada to confront climate change. Discusses how oil sand production has increased and why this needs to change for Canada to … | Tony Clarke | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFootprint: Why? From: Ecological Footprint |
- | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionForging an Emotional Bond With Nature From: Renewal of Life |
In the Introduction, the author describes how an exploration and willingness to be aware of nature can lead to a multifaceted improvement in one’s wellbeing | Andres R. Edwards | 4 | 2020 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() Preface & IntroductionAn unwitting experiment From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft provides an unique and personal view on the hold oil companies have on our democratic institutions. He goes on to provide a brief history of … | Kevin Taft | 14 | 2017 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() Prologue |
This section contains the prologue and a brief introduction. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() Sustaining Agriculture in a Changing ClimateFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter provides a brief history of agricultural practices and outlines the different crops and livestock that are cultivated in different environments. The chapter goes on to discuss how … | Laura Lengnick | 40 | 2015 | $4.00 Add |
From ![]() Area as CurrencyHow Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
From ![]() Big Oil Takes ControlFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the rise of neo-liberalism think tanks in Canada and their impact on energy policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Trudeau’s Keynesian interventions such as the NEP and Petro Canada … | Donald Gutstein | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |