Natural Resources
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From  Urban Water ManagementFrom: Dry Run |
What are the opportunities for urban water management in the coming decade, the second of this century? Where should cities be looking for means and methods to meet their water supply … | Jerry Yudelson | 22 | 2010 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Why Impermanence MattersFrom: Common Threads |
Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … | Sharon Kallis | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … | Yves Engler | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Chapter 4Radiation in Medicine |
This chapter includes the following sections: Early Use of Radium – X-Rays – Radiopharmaceuticals – CT Scans – PET Scans – SPECT Scans – Other Scans – … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 5Rough Terrain, 1973-2016 From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses mining in Canada at the end of the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. Topics discussed in this chapter include increasing resistance to new mines from … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 26 | 2021 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter FourWhite Hats and Black Hats: Getting Corporate Leaders in the Fight |
In this chapter, Rand argues that cutting emissions is good business. He provides reasons that should motivate business owners to tackle climate change. | Tom Rand | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Concrete: The Reinvention of Artificial Rock |
In this chapter, the authors turn to concrete, and suggest that the natural resources used to make it – lime, sand, and gravel – are in short supply. Moreover, the production of … | Fernando Martirena; Paul Jaquin | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Confronting Goldcorp at Every Step of the Destruction and RepressionFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Is Canada to Blame for Human Rights Abuses in Guatemala? – Diodora Hernandez and Goldcorp Inc.: A Stark Contrast – Goldcorp Inc.’s Marlin Mine—A … | Annie Hylton; James Rodriguez | 33 | 2021 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Dimensions of the Ecoterritorial Turn |
- | Maristella Svampa | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Ecological NightmareFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter discusses the multiple forms of environmental damage caused by the massive development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) global warming: the emergence of the tar … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Eighth FireFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Turning on a Dime – Really Finland, Must You? – The New Iron Horse – How Sweet It Is – The Renaissance of Cannabis – Lifting Hearts — Poetry and the UN … | Winona LaDuke | 57 | 2020 | $5.70 Add |
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From  Everyone WinsThe Circular Economy From: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines short term economic solutions we can implement immediately while we work on longer term systemic change. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Footprint as CompassHow Much Biocapacity Do We Need for a Good Life? From: Ecological Footprint |
Ultimately, the issue is not how little we use, but how well we can live. Still there are the planetary constraints. This is the core tension defining sustainable development. This chapter makes … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Going Blue – One Community at a Time |
The final chapter of this title explores ongoing Blue Community movements in Africa and Asia as well as a vision for the future of global water security. | Maude Barlow | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Grassy Narrows and Corporate Dispossession of Indigenous WaterwaysPart One: Dispossession at Home |
In Chapter 6, author Veldon Coburn examines the destruction of the English-Wabigoon River system in Northern Ontario for colonial capital. The chapter examines the history of colonial extraction … | Veldon Coburn | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
