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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Sustainability or Collapse? From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	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 …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	34	2011	$3.40 Add
From “That’s How We See It”: Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Andrew MacLeod	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From The Big Lie: Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Joan Sawicki	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From The Big Shift From: Getting to Zero View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Tony Clarke	37	2018	$3.70 Add
From The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	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 …	John Restakis	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From The Community Asset Well-Being Fund From: An Economy of Well-Being View New Society Publishers	* Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation	Mark Anielski	10	2018	$1.00 Add
From The Environment Good Stories, Bad Policies, and What to Do From: Canada after Harper View James Lorimer and Company	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 …	Peter Robinson	7	2015	$0.70 Add
From Sculpted by River and Story From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	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 …	Alejandro Frid	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From The Glorious Gate From: Overrun View ECW Press	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.	Andrew Reeves	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From The Great Burning From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	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 …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
The Memory We Could Be Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future New Society Publishers	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 …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	338	2018	View
From The Might of Memory From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	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 …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
NEW! The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders Sutherland House	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 …	Khalid Hasan; Philip Kotler	512	2025	View
From The Poverty of Weath: Economics and Ecology From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	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 …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate Leadership From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing		Robert MacNeil	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From The sun does not shine at night From: Between Doom and Denial View Sutherland House	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.	Andrew Leach	14	2023	$1.40 Add