Climate Change

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Scene 3

Science + Art / Left + Right

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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Scene 3 explores the topics of nature, curiosity, science, technology, and advocacy. ; ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Step Five

Join the Climate Emergency Movement

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

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This chapter gives a series of ideas and outlines for individuals who want to combat the climate emergency. This includes organizations to join and resources to make use of. ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Sustainability in the Arctic Borderlands

From: North America's Arctic Borders

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This chapter focuses on environmental change, which has quickly become the most important project of border security in the North. Water governance is a key. The focus remains on how cross-border … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Taking Stock of Where We Are At and What Stands in Our Way

From: More Powerful Together

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This chapter contains the following readings: What’s Working and What’s Not Working in Our Movements – The Barriers to Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Canada – Note 39 $3.90 Add
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The Big Shift

From: Getting to Zero

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Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … 37 $3.70 Add
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The Living Wind

From: Lost Feast

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In this chapter Newman provides an overview on the rise and fall of the passenger pigeon in North America. Through this Newman examines how during the shift from agricultural to industrial … 21 $2.10 Add
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Water Use in Commercial and Institutional Buildings

From: Dry Run

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Before turning to different ways to reduce urban water demand, in this chapter we’ll get better acquainted with patterns of water use in the commercial, industrial and institutional (CII) … 26 $2.60 Add
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5. The Empowerment Turnaround

“Achieving Gender Equity”

From: Earth for All

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Chapter 5 examines the challenges of achieving gender equity and empowerment. Topics discussed include financial independence and economic security, family size and affordability, access and … ; ; ; ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
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A Failure to Communicate

Facts are not Enough with George Lakoff

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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Lakoff described frames as metaphors and conceptual frameworks that we use to interpret and understand the world. They give meaning to the words we hear more than the other way around, because … 7 $0.70 Add
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A New Way to Think About Solutions

PART 2

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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This chapter discusses climate change as a major threat to our food system and various possible solutions for tackling this threat. It expands on the concept of resilience and also touches on the … 17 $1.70 Add
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Are Dams Really that Bad?

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … 28 $2.80 Add
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Becoming Indigenous

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Carbon Pricing

Economists vs. the Public Interest

From: The Big Stall

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Reviews competing economic theories about tackling pollution. Explains Edmund Pigou’s work on "externalities" and neo-liberal ideas. An analysis of the two major policy proposals … 21 $2.10 Add
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Catalysts for Change

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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Topics include: Greening Campuses – The Food Revolution – The Green Economy – Mainstreaming Green – Open Source – Initiatives, Confluence, Scope and Approach – … 26 $2.60 Add
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Chapter 6

Kinship and Creativity

From: Renewal

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This chapter explores how a focus on nature can inspire and guide creative persuits. 18 $1.80 Add