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About Canada: The Environment

As the Earth veers toward a biological tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become scarcer and as climate change threatens our survival, how is Canada responding? … 176 View
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Becoming Indigenous

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Canada’s Carbon Record

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Canada’s Changing Environment

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Chapter 1: The Lens of Upfront Carbon

From: The Story of Upfront Carbon

What is upfront carbon, and why is it so important? For decades we have been preoccupied with energy consumption, but since the Paris Accord of 2015 we have had to pivot to concern about carbon … 46 $4.60 Add
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Chapter 2: Strategies for Sufficiency

From: The Story of Upfront Carbon

How can we reduce upfront carbon emissions and use less stuff? A look at ideas like simplicity, where we eliminate wasteful complications, or materiality, what it is made of, or flexibility, can … 55 $5.50 Add
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Chapter 3: Stuff

From: The Story of Upfront Carbon

Some examples of the upfront carbon in everyday objects, from cars to hamburgers to puffer jackets. But it doesn’t end with the object; for example, a single-use disposable coffee cup has … 45 $4.50 Add
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Chapter 4: Everything Connects

From: The Story of Upfront Carbon

Many talk about how we might change our housing, transportation, work or diet, but here we see that they are all tied together and interconnected; our food supply is dependent on our … 15 $1.50 Add
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Conclusion

Live as a Climate Warrior

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

The book concludes with a call to action for anyone reading it and a list of resources for further reading. ; 7 $0.70 Add

Facing the Climate Emergency

How to Transform Yourself With Climate Truth

As the climate crisis accelerates toward the collapse of civilization and the natural world, people everywhere are feeling deep pain about ecological destruction and their role in it. Yet we are … ; 162 View
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Our Romance With Reductionism

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Prologue

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

This section contains the prologue and a brief introduction. ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Step Five

Join the Climate Emergency Movement

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

This chapter gives a series of ideas and outlines for individuals who want to combat the climate emergency. This includes organizations to join and resources to make use of. ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Step Four

Understand and Enter Emergency Mode

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

This chapter asks the reader to reassess how they establish priorities in order to enter a state of focus and determination to tackle the climate emergency. ; 20 $2.00 Add
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Step One

Face Climate Truth

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

This chapter asks the reader to engage with the truth about climate change: That scientific consensus agrees that a climate emergency and ecological crisis presents an imminent existential threat … ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Reimagine Your Life Story

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

This chapter asks us to reassess the purpose of our lives in the context of facing the climate emergency. We must recast ourselves as the heroes of this story and start to act accordingly. ; 11 $1.10 Add