Climate Change

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Chapter Three

Price and the Need for Speed

From: The Case for Climate Capitalism

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In this chapter, Rand discusses carbon pricing as a way to limit emissions. He discusses the history of carbon pricing policies, and provides case studies of places where these policies have been … 33 $3.30 Add
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Climate Change

A choice for humanity

From: The United Nations in the 21st Century

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This chapter explores how the UN’s concern for environmental issues showcases how the organization has evolved to respond to the evolving needs of humanity 9 $0.90 Add
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Climate Justice?

Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee!

From: The Fair Trade Handbook

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This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … 11 $1.10 Add
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Colonialism: The Acceleration

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Colonialism was, and remains, a wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen. Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was incalculable, as … 36 $3.60 Add
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Earth’s Orbital Variations

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

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This chapter examines the role of the Earth’s orbital variations in determining the world’s climate. The tilt of the Earth’s axis and our irregular elliptical orbit around the … 15 $1.50 Add
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Facilitation Techniques

From: Changemakers

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Suggestions for facilitation techniques. ; 6 $0.60 Add
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How To Be White at the End of the World

From: I Want a Better Catastrophe

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In this chapter, Boyd explores how class, social power, and race contribute to how a person is impacted by the climate crisis. Boyd discusses the concept of "an equitable distribution of … 12 $1.20 Add
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How We Get From Here to There

From: More Powerful Together

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This chapter contains the following readings: The Movements’ Theories of Change – The Context – How We Understand and What We Value – How We Take Action – How We … 49 $4.90 Add
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Interlude

A Walk in the Spring

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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A poem by thirteen-year-old David Suzuki written in 1949 titled "A Walk in the Spring." 2 $0.20 Add
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Making Common Cause

Inequality, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … 18 $1.80 Add
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Net-Zero Challenge

From: Getting to Zero

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Indentifies how Canada, in contrast to several other countries, has failed to develop a credible plan of action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Proposes that an … 18 $1.80 Add
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Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

May 6, 2020

From: The World After Covid

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Niall Ferguson and Rudyard Griffiths discuss history and possible political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of the pandemic. Topics include historical precedence, public response, … 14 $1.40 Add
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On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts

Fifty Million Farmers

From: Peak Everything

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There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … 20 $2.00 Add
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One Planet

Ecological Limits and Then What?

From: Ecological Footprint

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Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk?  Where are … ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Caring For the Earth

From: Human Permaculture

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Biodiversity, the Key to Balance – Water Is Life – Soil, Too, Is Life – Forest: Bridge between Land and Sky ; 44 $4.40 Add