Climate Change

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Extractive Economy

From: Getting to Zero

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Discusses Canadian economic history, focusing on the analysis that inteprets Canada as an extractive economy. Situates PMs Harper and Trudeau’s policies in this context. Examines the … 27 $2.70 Add
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Global warming

What industry knew and when they knew it

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes the history of the science around global warming paying particular attention to the organizations and people involved with studying the … 20 $2.00 Add
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Mass Movements: Our Only Hope

From: Future on Fire

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Chapter 3 examines how mass movements, the actions of millions of everyday people have played a role in changing our society for the better and can become the method to bring real change and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Neoliberalism and the World-Saving Market

PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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Chapter 4 reflects on the current neoliberal system and its primarily market-oriented solutions to tackle climate change. 22 $2.20 Add
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Origins

From: The Memory We Could Be

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To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … 8 $0.80 Add
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Design: A How-To Guide

From: Human Permaculture

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Definition of Design for Permaculture – The Nine Steps of Design – Three Examples of Design – Discovering My Personal Niche ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Ready to Rally

Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, … 40 $4.00 Add
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Regenerative Design

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö … 18 $1.80 Add
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Rio to Kyoto

The Road Not Taken

From: The Big Stall

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Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. 27 $2.70 Add
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Running on empty

Climate and environment

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of … 20 $2.00 Add
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Tara

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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Scene 2 focuses on Tara and her decades-spanning relationship and work with her husband, David Suzuki. It discusses immigration, World War II, discrimination, marriage and married life, activism, … ; ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Section C: Changemakers’ Manual

From: Changemakers

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This chapter is a hands-on workshop for those who want to build change. There may be a need in your community that you want to respond to, or you may have already started implementing a change … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris

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

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The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Step Three

Reimagine Your Life Story

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

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This chapter asks us to reassess the purpose of our lives in the context of facing the climate emergency. We must recast ourselves as the heroes of this story and start to act accordingly. ; 11 $1.10 Add