Introductory
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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? … | Linda Pannozzo | 176 | 2016 | View |
 Facing the Climate EmergencyHow 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 … | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 162 | 2020 | View |
 NEW! The Story of Upfront CarbonHow 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 … | Lloyd Alter | 194 | 2024 | View |
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From NEW! Chapter 1: The Lens 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 … | Lloyd Alter | 46 | 2024 | $4.60 Add |
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From Our Romance With Reductionism |
Linda Pannozzo | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add | |
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From  Prologue |
This section contains the prologue and a brief introduction. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2020 | $1.30 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 2: Strategies for Sufficiency |
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 … | Lloyd Alter | 55 | 2024 | $5.50 Add |
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From Step OneFace Climate Truth |
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 … | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From The Cult of Consumerism |
Linda Pannozzo | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add | |
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From NEW! Chapter 3: Stuff |
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 … | Lloyd Alter | 45 | 2024 | $4.50 Add |
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From Step TwoWelcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings |
This chapter suggests that readers must be willing to accept and cope with the feelings of fear and grief that accompany the thought of climate change. By not allowing these negative feelings to … | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From Taking Stock of Canada’s Ecosystems |
Linda Pannozzo | 23 | 2016 | $2.30 Add | |
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From NEW! Chapter 4: Everything Connects |
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 … | Lloyd Alter | 15 | 2024 | $1.50 Add |
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From Step ThreeReimagine Your Life Story |
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. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From Turning the Bull Loose |
Linda Pannozzo | 21 | 2016 | $2.10 Add | |
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From Canada’s Changing Environment |
Linda Pannozzo | 24 | 2016 | $2.40 Add |
