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Building a Better World

From: A Finer Future

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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 … ; ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Celebrations of Honor and Respect

From: Common Threads

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This chapter explores developing events that are both environmentally aware and nurturing for humanity. 30 $3.00 Add
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Industrial Use of Radiation

From: From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

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This chapter includes the following sections: Improper Disposal of Radioactive Devices: Three Case Studies – Radioactive Gauges – Nuclear Well Logging – Industrial Radiography … ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Heritage, History, and Zombie Mines

From: Mining Country

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This chapter discusses abandoned mines throughout Canada and efforts to contain pollution and reclaim devastated land. ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Chapter Five

Market Interventions – Accelerating Clean Technologies

From: The Case for Climate Capitalism

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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 … 43 $4.30 Add
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Cars, Canadians and the Twenty-first Century

From: Car Nation

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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 … 8 $0.80 Add
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End Overshoot!

Communication Is Key

From: Ecological Footprint

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Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? ; 11 $1.10 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Five Axioms of Sustainability

From: Peak Everything

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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) … 14 $1.40 Add
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Overcoming the Barriers and Building More Powerful Movements

From: More Powerful Together

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This chapter contains the following readings: Confronting and Overcoming the External Barriers – Confronting and Overcoming the Internal Barriers – Relational Theories of Change and … 39 $3.90 Add
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Part V: Catastrophe and Collapse

From: Cobalt

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Part V contains Chapter 16: Fire, Racial Backlash, and Epidemic, Chapter 17: The War Comes Home, and Chapter 18: The Final Battle. 55 $5.50 Add
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Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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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 … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own Words

From: Testimonio

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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 … ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Rape of the Commons

The Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security

From: Damming the Peace

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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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Social Upheaval

From: Tar Sands Showdown

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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 … 39 $3.90 Add
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Sustainability or Collapse?

From: Techno-Fix

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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 … ; 34 $3.40 Add