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Sustainability or Collapse?

Sustainability or Collapse?

From: Techno-Fix

Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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“That’s How We See It”

“That’s How We See It”

Trauma and Indigenous Resistance

From: Damming the Peace

Journalist Andrew MacLeod interviews respected First Nations leader Helen Knott about the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on her community, and in … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Big Lie

The Big Lie

Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate

From: Damming the Peace

Former B.C. Environment Minister Joan Sawicki sets out her analysis that BC Hydro “overlooked” the importance of microclimate in its agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Big Shift

The Big Shift

From: Getting to Zero

Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … 37 $3.70 Add
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The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation
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The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation

From: Civilizing the State

The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Community Asset Well-Being Fund

The Community Asset Well-Being Fund

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation 10 $1.00 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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The Exuberance of Herring

The Exuberance of Herring

From: Changing Tides

This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. 19 $1.90 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
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