Environmental Humanities
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From  Placemaking for CommunityFrom: Common Threads |
A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … | Sharon Kallis | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Portents and prophecies |
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 … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
 PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | 416 | View | ||
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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 Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
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From Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Prescription Limits Driving Some Patients to Street DrugsFrom: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Amanda Preffer | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Prismatic Reflections: Cultivating Care and Community through Multifaceted CrisesFrom: Hot Mess |
In this chapter, Wiebe examines the 2014 Chemical Valley spill, the Fairy Creek protests, and the 2021 Pacific Northwest wildfires to argue that emergencies are deeply layered and require … | Sarah Marie Wiebe | 17 | 2024 | $1.70 Add |
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From Progressive Place and the Double Recovery ProgramFrom: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Kathryn Eve | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
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From Pseudo WorldFrom: About Face |
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 … | William Stromich | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Raleigh, North CarolinaFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter throws light on the small town of Raleigh, North Carolina, where activists Robert Childs, Minister Michelle Mathis, Steve Daniels and many others worked around the law and came up … | Travis Lupick | 18 | 2017 | $0.18 Add |
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From  ReawakeningFrom: Changing Tides |
In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From NEW! Rebel, rebel |
After a year of accompanying V330ancouver’s Extinction Rebellion group, the author asks: is civil disobedience not only a moral choice, but also the most powerful way of shaping world … | Arno Kopecky | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Rehabilitative Capitalism in Winnipeg’s Rental Market |
In this chapter, Hodges examines how the Living Recovery Foundation in Winnipeg’s North End, from 2019 onward, imposed disciplinary conditions on marginalized tenants under the banner of … | Stefan Hodges | 11 | 2025 | $1.10 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 |
