Environmental Management
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherTalking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything |
Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
From Chapter 13Why Taxation Matters From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter explores how tax policy shapes mining operations and how taxation is a powerful tool to regulate the type and amount of mining that occurs. | Joan Kuyek | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 13The Leslie Street Spit and Tommy Thompson Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the novel ecosystem of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park), a five-hundred-hectare constructed peninsula built from decommissioned … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From Is Site C Really Past “The Point of No Return”?From: Damming the Peace |
What was meant by former B.C. premier Christy Clark’s promise to bring the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley to the “point of no return,” … | Zoë Ducklow | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Judiciously use REWARDSFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on the risk Reward issue. By focusing on how to create rewards for certain behaviours or by increasing the size or visibility of existing rewards, you can boost your … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
From The Work That Reconnects with Children and TeensFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Many adults, especially parents and teachers, face an agonizing dilemma: how to talk with our children about the Great Unraveling, knowing they will suffer its effects in their lifetimes. We want … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 29 | 2014 | $2.90 Add |
From What Then Must We Do?From: The Memory We Could Be |
Many of us stumble at the very first question: what can I do? But our failure to find a straightforward answer lies partly in our misdirected question: there isn’t much that individuals … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From Chapter 14Notes on Uranium From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter looks at uranium mining in Canada, beginning with its history. The author then explores the impact that uranium mining has had on the surrounding communities and how it is conducted … | Joan Kuyek | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 14The Forks of the Don |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes Toronto’s Forks of the Don, a natural, cultural, and historical nexus where the waters of Taylor-Massey Creek merge with the East & West Don … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add |
From NEW! Frame for appropriate ASSOCIATIONSFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter discusses how to frame information in a way that activates meaningful mental Associations, which is essential for encouraging a shift in mindsets toward environmental engagement. … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 25 | 2022 | $2.50 Add |
From Hope, A HorizonFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
We have become accustomed to too much: to a violently unequal world, to the systematic degradation of ecosystems and the constant theft of our future. Without the challenge of change, the … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From Learning with Communities of ColorFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We decided to offer workshops that would be only for young activists of color and that would train them to become facilitators of the Work That Reconnects in their own communities. At the date of … | Adelja Simon; Adrián Villaseñor Galarza; Andrés Thomas Conteris; Joanna Macy; Patricia St. Onge | 24 | 2014 | $2.40 Add |
From The Sword of Reason and the Power of the LawThe Legal Right to a Healthy Environment From: Damming the Peace |
How most other nations have legislation on their books that would have allowed British Columbians to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, using an example … | Silver Donald Cameron | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
From Chapter 15Stopping a Mine Before it Starts From: Unearthing Justice |
In this chapter, the author disusses some of the methods by which community organizers have been able to prevent mines from being opened in the first place. | Joan Kuyek | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 15E.T. Seton Park |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes E. T. Seton Park, one of the most vibrant recreational areas in Toronto’s Don River watershed. Here, nature provides a scenic backdrop to biking, … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
From Democracy and Civil DisobedienceFrom: Damming the Peace |
Legendary B.C. broadcaster and former politician Rafe Mair sets out the argument that the fight to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley is a conflict about … | Rafe Mair | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |