Natural Resources

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Changing Tides An Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene New Society Publishers	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 Life The Updated Guide to the Work That Reconnects New Society Publishers	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 Threads Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art New Society Publishers	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 Peace The hidden costs of the Site C Dam James Lorimer and Company	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
Dry Run Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis New Society Publishers	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 Footprint Managing Our Biocapacity Budget New Society Publishers	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 Behavior An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) New Society Publishers	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 Zero Canada Confronts Global Warming James Lorimer and Company	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 Everything Waking Up to the Century of Declines New Society Publishers	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 Microbiome Why Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness New Society Publishers	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 Showdown Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change James Lorimer and Company	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 Forward From: Peak Everything Preview New Society Publishers	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 Preface From: Dry Run Preview New Society Publishers	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
From Fostering Sustainable Behavior From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior Preview New Society Publishers	Behavior change is the cornerstone of sustainability. Whether you are working on protecting wetlands, enhancing water or energy efficiency, altering modal transportation choices, or any of the …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	13	2011	$0.13 Add
From Gravity Suspended From: Changing Tides Preview New Society Publishers	Humans have changed the world irrevocably, yet our potential to cause even further change is still latent. When it comes down to the blows, the next many millennia on Earth will reflect the …	Alejandro Frid	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Introduction From: Common Threads Preview New Society Publishers	By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look …	Sharon Kallis	6	2014	$0.60 Add