Environmental Humanities

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Resisting Least Resistance

Resisting Least Resistance

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Green Waste Logistics, Funding and Public Park Partnership

Green Waste Logistics, Funding and Public Park Partnership

From: Common Threads

In order for projects described in this book to have happened, a strong relationship with municipal partners was required. Issues such as delivery, storage and material access have been hang-up … 30 $3.00 Add
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Guilt Trip
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Guilt Trip

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

In this chapter, the author explores how charges of hypocracy are leveled at environmentalists who have children. 18 $1.80 Add
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Harm Reduction Comes to Canada: The 1980s and 1990s

Harm Reduction Comes to Canada: The 1980s and 1990s

From: Heroin

This chapter examines the introduction of harm reduction practices to Canada during the 1980s and 1990s. Grassroots harm reduction programs such as safe injection sites and legal programs such as … 20 $2.00 Add
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He Has Multiple Addictions: Sex, Gambling, Video Games, Alcohol and Drugs

He Has Multiple Addictions: Sex, Gambling, Video Games, Alcohol and Drugs

From: About Face

The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … 6 $0.60 Add
Heroin

Heroin

An Illustrated History

Heroin is an illustrated history of Canadian heroin regulation over two centuries. Susan Boyd points to our failure to address the overdose death epidemic caused by criminalizing drug users and … 251 View
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Heroin, Addiction and Harm Reduction

Heroin, Addiction and Harm Reduction

From: Heroin

In this chapter, Boyd introduces the origins and brief history of the drug heroin. Drug prohibition, criminalization, harm reduction, addiction, and the war on drugs are also discussed. 26 $2.60 Add
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Heroin Criminalization: The 1920s and 30s

Heroin Criminalization: The 1920s and 30s

From: Heroin

This chapter discusses the criminalization of heroin in the 1920s and 1930s. Emily Murphy’s role in creating a racialized and sexualized construction of drug use is examined, as well as the … 15 $1.50 Add
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HIV Criminalization in Canada

HIV Criminalization in Canada

How the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment

From: Conflict Is Not Abuse

This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … 28 $0.56 Add
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Hotel of Last Resort

Hotel of Last Resort

From: Fighting For Space

In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … 34 $1.02 Add
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How "Green" Lost Its Groove
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How "Green" Lost Its Groove

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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. 12 $1.20 Add
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How Soon is Now

How Soon is Now

From: About Face

The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … 12 $1.20 Add
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Hundred Block Rock

Hundred Block Rock

From: 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 … 25 $0.50 Add
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i-Addiction and i-Life: The Beginnings of a New World

i-Addiction and i-Life: The Beginnings of a New World

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

The realm of i-tech is not just a new space that allows for the extension of boundaries of communication and the maintenance of distal relationships; it is a new space, or rather a new world, one … 18 $1.80 Add
i-Minds, 2nd edition

i-Minds, 2nd edition

How and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it

The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also … 528 View
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i-Tech and Healthcare: To Care or i-Care

i-Tech and Healthcare: To Care or i-Care

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

It is time to have closer look at i-tech in caretaking, healthcare, and perhaps in caring in its larger sense too. Let’s start with healthcare. 4 $0.40 Add