Global Warming

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate Everyone's Guide to the Science of Climate Change New Society Publishers	A Brief History of the Earth’s Climate is an accessible myth-busting guide to the natural evolution of the Earth’s climate over 4.6 billion years, and how and why human-caused global …	Steven Earle	210	2021	View
A Good War Mobilizing Canada for the Climate Emergency ECW Press	Canada needs to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 50% to prevent a catastrophic 1.5 degree increase in the earth’s average temperature — assumed by many scientists to be a …	Seth Klein	465	2020	View
NEW! Border and Rule Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Fernwood Publishing	In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered …	Harsha Walia	320	2021	View
Changemakers Embracing Hope, Taking Action, and Transforming the World New Society Publishers	With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It’s all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. The antidote to fear and …	Fay Weller; Mary Wilson	208	2018	View
Ecological Footprint Managing Our Biocapacity Budget New Society Publishers	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 Emergency How to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth New Society Publishers	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
NEW! Future on Fire Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change Fernwood Publishing	Climate change is already affecting millions of people. Governments talk about taking action to limit global heating to 2 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, but the greenhouse gas …	David Camfield	128	2022	View
Getting to Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	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
NEW! Human Permaculture Life Design For Resilient Living New Society Publishers	As climate change, ecological decline, and social breakdown start to bite, people expect that governments will solve our problems. Yet this belief has proven to be false. Rather than looking to …	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	242	2020	View
Lost Feast Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food ECW Press	When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. …	Lenore Newman	308	2019	View
NEW! More Powerful Together Conversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders Fernwood Publishing	How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved …	Jen Gobby	250	2020	View
Oil’s Deep State How the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa James Lorimer and Company	Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? …	Kevin Taft	256	2017	View
NEW! Renewal How Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy New Society Publishers	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 Agriculture Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	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
NEW! Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate New Society Publishers	Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. …	Laura Lengnick	368	2022	View
The Big Stall How big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada James Lorimer and Company	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