Global Warming

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The Mechanic and the Architect From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges …	Donald Gutstein	22	2018	$2.20 Add
From The New Gospel From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business …	Donald Gutstein	14	2018	$1.40 Add
From The New Normal From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be …	Gary S. Kleppel	15	2014	$1.50 Add
From The Path We’re On From: Future on Fire View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 1 reflects on our current policies toward climate change and what is at risk if we maintain this status quo. Topics discussed include current government policies for reducing carbon …	David Camfield	18	2022	$1.80 Add
From The Petroleum Game: New Realities From: Oil and World Politics View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses the patterns of Western military and economic interventions during the twenty-first century, and petroleum’s largely hidden role in world politics. US pressures have influenced …	John Foster	26	2018	$2.60 Add
From NEW! The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient Systems PART 2 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as …	Laura Lengnick	24	2022	$2.40 Add
From NEW! The Rules of Resilience PART 2 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores rules of resilience, which are: to Cultivate diverse networks of reciprocal relationship, to Cultivate regional self-reliance, and to Cultivate the accumulation of …	Laura Lengnick	15	2022	$1.50 Add
NEW! The Story of Upfront Carbon How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis	When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes Think that buying an electric car or switching to a heat pump is going to save the planet? Think again. We must …		194		View
From NEW! The Way Forward PART 3 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View New Society Publishers	This chapter muses on the way forward from here for our food system, looking to social-ecological resilience thinking, which offers new concepts, a new language and an effective framework for …	Laura Lengnick	8	2022	$0.80 Add
From NEW! Thinking Together About Changing Everything From: More Powerful Together View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter contains the following readings: Global Climate and Inequality Crises – This Research Project – Working Towards Decolonial Research Practice – This Book	Jen Gobby	17	2020	$1.70 Add
Thirty Years of Failure Understanding 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 …		192		View
Thriving Beyond Sustainability Pathways to a Resilient Society New Society Publishers	Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million …	Andrés R. Edwards	241	2010	View
From Tipping Points From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores various climate tipping points that loom in our near future. Topics include the increasing rate of forest fires, the melting of Arctic sea ice, melting permafrost, changing …	Steven Earle	23	2021	$2.30 Add
From Tom Gets His Way; Murray Enters the Fray From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses how, by the mid 1990s, the federal Liberals are firmly committed to neo-liberalism. Finance Minister Paul Martin slashes corporate taxes while the party introduces "voluntary" …	Donald Gutstein	14	2018	$1.40 Add
NEW! Toward Sustainable Communities Solutions for Citizens and their Governments	The go-to guide for sustainable community development, from the neighborhood to the regional level.		402		View
From Transforming our Politics Bold Leadership, Then, There and Now From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 12, Klein examines how we must transform our politics and our politicians, how we must vote for leaders who are willing to act and plan like Climate Change is an emergency. Klein …	Seth Klein	28	2020	$2.80 Add