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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Building a Better WorldFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines ways in which the construction industry can change in order to be more sustainable. This includes more efficient construction methods and materials as well as retrofitting … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From Celebrations of Honor and RespectFrom: Common Threads |
This chapter explores developing events that are both environmentally aware and nurturing for humanity. | Sharon Kallis | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
From Chapter 5Industrial Use of Radiation |
This chapter includes the following sections: Improper Disposal of Radioactive Devices: Three Case Studies – Radioactive Gauges – Nuclear Well Logging – Industrial Radiography … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 6Heritage, History, and Zombie Mines From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses abandoned mines throughout Canada and efforts to contain pollution and reclaim devastated land. | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Chapter FiveMarket Interventions – Accelerating Clean Technologies |
This chapter explores a variety of policies that can be implemented to stimulate investment in green technologies and accelerate the implementation of these technologies. Policies discussed … | Tom Rand | 43 | 2020 | $4.30 Add |
From Conclusion:Cars, Canadians and the Twenty-first Century From: Car Nation |
Looks at the interconnectedness of the car to the great political, environmental and economic questions of our time as a testament to the automobile’s continuing centrality in both our … | Dimitry Anastakis | 8 | 2008 | $0.80 Add |
From End Overshoot!Communication Is Key From: Ecological Footprint |
Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From Farming Ecologically: The NFU in OntarioFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The sixth chapter looks more closely at the role of the NFU in Ontario, especially in its work to promote environmentally sustainable practices. Interviews are with Dianne Dowling, Peter Dowling, … | Bryan Dale | 20 | 2019 | $2.00 Add |
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! Overcoming the Barriers and Building More Powerful MovementsFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Confronting and Overcoming the External Barriers – Confronting and Overcoming the Internal Barriers – Relational Theories of Change and … | Jen Gobby | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
From NEW! Part V: Catastrophe and CollapseFrom: Cobalt |
Part V contains Chapter 16: Fire, Racial Backlash, and Epidemic, Chapter 17: The War Comes Home, and Chapter 18: The Final Battle. | Charlie Angus | 55 | 2022 | $5.50 Add |
From Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own WordsFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Formal Human Rights Violation Complaint – Testimonio: Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, Taking Claims to Canadian Courts – Mynor Padilla, Hudbay Mineral’s Former … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
From Rape of the CommonsThe Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security From: Damming the Peace |
Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … | Wendy Holm | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
From Social UpheavalFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … | Tony Clarke | 39 | 2008 | $3.90 Add |
From Sustainability or Collapse?From: Techno-Fix |
Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 34 | 2011 | $3.40 Add |