Environmental Management

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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking 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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Environment

The Environment

Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do

From: Canada after Harper

Peter Robinson then rounds out our survey of the environment by discussing how a rights-based mobilization offers the best hope for bringing government environmental policy into line with … 7 $0.70 Add
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Sculpted by River and Story

Sculpted by River and Story

From: Changing Tides

Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Future of the Commons

The Future of the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Glorious Gate

The Glorious Gate

From: Overrun

This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. 30 $3.00 Add
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The Great Burning

The Great Burning

From: The Memory We Could Be

Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Greatest Danger - The Deadening of Heart and Mind

The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and Mind

From: Coming Back to Life

perils facing life on Earth are so massive and unprecedented they are hard even to take in. The very danger signals that should rivet our attention, summon up the blood and bond us in collective … ; 17 $1.70 Add
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The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences

The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences

From: Techno-Fix

The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences postulates that there are always positive and negative effects of any technology. It is impossible for humans to … ; 15 $1.50 Add
The Memory We Could Be

The Memory We Could Be

Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future

Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … 338 View
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The Might of Memory

The Might of Memory

From: The Memory We Could Be

The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … 13 $1.30 Add
The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders
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The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders

Sustainability has become a buzzword in business, politics, and academia—but are we truly making a difference? Are today’s corporations and entrepreneurs prioritizing long-term sustainability, or … ; 512 View
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The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses

The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses

From: Techno-Fix

The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … ; 38 $3.80 Add
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The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology

The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology

From: The Memory We Could Be

One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Rise & Fall of Canada's Climate Leadership

The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate Leadership

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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The Story of Upfront Carbon
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The Story of Upfront Carbon

How a Life of Just Enough Offers a Way Out of the Climate Crisis

When you look at the world through the lens of upfront carbon, everything changes Think that buying an electric car or switching to a heat pump is going to save the planet? Think again. We must … 194 View
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The sun does not shine at night

The sun does not shine at night

From: Between Doom and Denial

In this chapter, Leach examines the promise and limits of solar and wind power in Canada’s push toward a net-zero electricity sector by 2035. 14 $1.40 Add