Natural Resources
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From ![]() Message from the Dalai LamaFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We live at a time when human actions have developed a creative and destructive power that has become global in scope. And yet we fail to cultivate a corresponding sense of responsibility. Most of … | Dalai Lama | 2 | 2014 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() Migrant Justice and the Tar Sands IndustryPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
Chapter 7 is an interview with Harsha Walia by John Kahn Russell. | Harsha Walia; Joshua Kahn Russell | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
![]() NEW! Mining CountryA History of Canada's Mines and Miners |
Mining has had a significant presence in every part of Canada — from the east to west coasts to the far north. This book tells the stories of those who built Canada’s mining industry. … | 226 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Mining in the Wake of GenocidesFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Mining in the Guatemalan Mafia State – When You Benefit from Destruction: United Church of Canada Pension Fund and Goldcorp | Jackie McVicar; Sandra Cuffe | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Mni WiconiFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
From Buffalo to Black Snake – The Deep North – The Seventh Generation – The Rise of the Water Protector – The Siege at River’s Edge – The Art of Indigenous … | Winona LaDuke | 64 | 2020 | $6.40 Add |
![]() NEW! More Powerful TogetherConversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders |
How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved … | 250 | View | ||
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From ![]() Moving Money From Harm to HealingFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which the global economy can move to support the planet instead of a small minority of shareholders. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() New Beginnings: Tar Sands Prospecting AbroadPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 9 MacDonald Stainsby explores the rise of “extreme” fossil energy extraction such as for oil shale and fracking for “tight” oil and natural gas. The chapter … | MacDonald Stainsby | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() New WaterFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, we’ll learn more about two sources of "new water" from technologies not typically in widespread use today throughout the US, desalination of seawater and expanded … | Jerry Yudelson | 13 | 2010 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Nonextractivism and Development |
Maristella Svampa | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NotleyA New Deal? From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the Alberta NDP government of Rachel Notley and its policies in response to climate change. Concludes that these policies guarantee that the oil industry’s extraction will continue … | Donald Gutstein | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Oil Sands Binges, RebrandsFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the relationship between the oil industry and the Alberta government. The industry’s approach shifted to accepting a cap on carbon emissions which permitted ongoing operations and … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Omaa Akiing: Here On EarthFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Winter Count – How to Be Better Ancestors – The Holy Land Is Here – The Month You Remember Me | Winona LaDuke | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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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 |
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From ![]() On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … | Richard Heinberg | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |














