Environmental Humanities

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The Future of Power

Learning to Live Happily Within Limits

From: Power

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In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. 63 $6.30 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

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We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add
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Epilogue

From: Finding Our Niche

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In the Epilogue of Finding Our Niche, Loring grapples with his own feelings of alienation and disorientation to place. 2 $0.20 Add
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Focus, Goddammit

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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In this chapter, Grover focuses on blame, how powerful institutions can shift blame away from themselves and onto the less culpable, and how our attention is a limited resource. 15 $1.50 Add
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Melody of the Soul

From: The Biology of Wonder

In this chapter, Weber explores natural beauty through birdsong and music 25 $2.50 Add
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My Heart Never Gave Up

From: About Face

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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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Portents and prophecies

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

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In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … 13 $1.30 Add
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Struggling for Heroin-assisted Treatment: The 2000s

From: Heroin

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This chapter discusses Canada’s first federally sanctioned supervised injection site that opened in Vancouver in 2003. The efficacy of heroin assisted treatment programs in other countries … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Story of Alpha

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. 16 $1.60 Add
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Working with Invasive Plant Species

From: Common Threads

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Embracing invasive plants as a material resource for hand-based technologies makes so much sense; we bring land stewardship practices to the heart of our making. It is not about choosing a plant … 22 $2.20 Add
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A brief history of population control

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

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This chapter begins with the discussion that our insatiable “Western” appetites for consumption are more urgent problems than overpopulation. The chapter ends reporting that 2020 … 10 $1.00 Add
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A Poisoned Heroin Supply: The 2010s and 2020s

From: Heroin

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This chapter examines the opioid crisis, the poisoned illegal drug supply, and the increase in illegal drug overdose deaths in Canada during the 2010s and 2020s. 26 $2.60 Add
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Pseudo World

From: About Face

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On Narcotics. 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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Techniques

From: Common Threads

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As you begin to work with natural fibers you will realize how much of the knowledge is transferable from one fiber to another. As you pick up a new plant, first try what you already know. … 51 $5.10 Add
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The Narrowing of Minds

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. … 26 $2.60 Add
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The Principle of Beauty

From: The Biology of Wonder

In this chapter, the author provides a critique of the Darwinian notion of "nature as a survival machine." 32 $3.20 Add