Environmental Humanities
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From  NEW! The Newest Normal |
Things have never been so good for humanity, yet so dire for the planet. On one side of the ledger: practically any quantifiable aspect of human well-being, on the other: All the life that … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! We’re all Climate Hypocrites Now |
The opening chapter outlines a contradiction in environmental activism: we all know the problem is urgent, but we all continue to produce some amount of carbon emissions. Grover suggests that we … | Sami Grover | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Mickey Mouse is All Right |
This chapter begins by asking how much oil is in the ground, how much carbon can the sky absorb, and how fast will we go before we finally slow down? Through the story of a family trip to … | Arno Kopecky | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  My Life is Going Up in SmokeFrom: About Face |
On Smoking. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Jennifer Barnett | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From  Resisting Least ResistanceFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The Desire for LifeFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
The author discusses his scientific education, and how he felt that something was lacking in the overly mechanistic conception of life in biology. | Andreas Weber | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The ShiftFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Every era has an innovation that changes the face of society: the way we think, the way we act and interact as individuals, as a community, and as a culture. As the innovation is introduced, it … | Mari K Swingle | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Toledo, OhioFrom: Fighting For Space |
The city of Toledo, Ohio, wakes up to a growing ‘public health crisis’. In 2014, over a thousand people died of heroin-related overdoses in the state of Ohio. A disproportionate … | Travis Lupick | 20 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! Wants and Needs |
In this chapter, the author unpacks our consumer impulses, and how a consumer state of mind does not encourage environmental action. | Sami Grover | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Work With What You Have at HandFrom: Common Threads |
In most environmental stewardship practice, conversations about invasive and native species are inclined to dualistic thinking: invasive plant = bad. But what if invasive species could be useful … | Sharon Kallis | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From Building for Change From the Ground UpFrom: Common Threads |
Beyond food, what if we began to make some of the things that we need for ourselves again as a cultural and social norm? And what if our cities and towns supported this behavior; what would that … | Sharon Kallis | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From Coalescing KnowledgeFrom: Changing Tides |
In Coalescing Knowledge Frid explores the integration of traditional and scientific ways of knowing can merge in many contexts and help us find better ways to manage our relationships to local … | Alejandro Frid | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
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From Dear AlcoholFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … | Michael Parsons | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From NEW! How "Green" Lost Its Groove |
In this chapter, Grover details the ways in which an over-focus on purity is impeding the environmental movement, and reveals a lack of faith in collective action. | Sami Grover | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From Hundred Block RockFrom: Fighting For Space |
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
