Natural Resources
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() A Finer FutureCreating an Economy in Service to Life |
Humanity is in a race with catastrophe. Is the future one of global warming, 65 million migrants fleeing failed states, soaring inequality, and grid-locked politics? Or one of empowered … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 450 | 2018 | View |
![]() Changing TidesAn Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene |
Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and … | Alejandro Frid | 220 | 2019 | View |
![]() Coming Back to LifeThe Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects |
Authors Joanna Macy and Molly Brown address the anguish experienced by those who would confront the harsh realities of our time. In this fully updated edition of Coming Back to Life, they show … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 379 | 2014 | View |
![]() Common ThreadsWeaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art |
Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural … | Sharon Kallis | 283 | 2014 | View |
![]() Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | Wendy Holm | 272 | 2018 | View |
![]() Development in Latin AmericaToward a New Future |
In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the … | Maristella Svampa | 122 | 2019 | View |
![]() Dry RunPreventing the Next Urban Water Crisis |
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … | Jerry Yudelson | 312 | 2010 | View |
![]() Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
![]() Fostering Sustainable BehaviorAn Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) |
We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 184 | 2011 | View |
![]() Getting to ZeroCanada Confronts Global Warming |
In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … | Tony Clarke | 248 | 2018 | View |
![]() Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
![]() Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
![]() Tar Sands ShowdownCanada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change |
Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four … | Tony Clarke | 312 | 2008 | View |
From ![]() Critical Development Studies Series |
- | Maristella Svampa | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() ForwardFrom: Peak Everything |
Back in 2005, Richard Heinberg and I both published books on peak oil and its implications for everyday life in technologically “advanced” societies. We saw the general situation very … | James Howard Kunstler | 3 | 2010 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() Forward and PrefaceFrom: Dry Run |
For this book, I’ve chosen to focus on my first love in the professional world, water, a subject to which I devoted a considerable part of my early professional career. With the arrival of … | Jerry Yudelson | 7 | 2010 | $0.70 Add |