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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Notley A New Deal? From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	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
From Oil Sands Binges, Rebrands From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	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
Oi’s Deep State How the Petroleum Industry Undermines Democracy and Stops Action on Global Warming- in Alberta, and in Ottawa James Lorimer and Company	Why doesn’t the government act on climate change? An Alberta insider’s perspective. Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite …	Kevin Taft	258	2017	View
From NEW! Omaa Akiing: Here On Earth From: To Be A Water Protector View Fernwood Publishing	Winter Count – How to Be Better Ancestors – The Holy Land Is Here – The Month You Remember Me	Winona LaDuke	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From NEW! On Becoming an Environmental Activist From: Bit Player on Big Stages View Sutherland House	In this chapter, Turene discusses his experiences with environmental activism in Manitoba, beginning in 1991.	Roger Turene	14	2025	$1.40 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Five Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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 On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Population, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Fifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts (post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Will industrial production survive in the post-hydrocarbon era? The answer will of course depend on how much energy humans will have at their disposal. The total amount, as well as the per capita …	Richard Heinberg	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From One Planet: Ecological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk? …	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	25	2019	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Overcoming the Barriers and Building More Powerful Movements From: More Powerful Together View Fernwood Publishing	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
Overrun Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis ECW Press	Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government …	Andrew Reeves	387	2019	View
From Part 1: Resistance from Turtle Island Jim Leyden, Watchman From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	Jim Leyden shares his experience as a Sixties Scoop survivor and activist, highlighting the racist and unjust treatment he faced during his jail sentence for opposing the TMX pipeline.	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	10	2024	$1.00 Add
From Part 1: Resistance from Turtle Island April Thomas, Secwépemc Matriarch From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	April Thomas highlights the environmental damage the TMX pipeline poses to the Thompson River and unceded Secwépemc’ulecw lands. She describes her own experience of rights violations …	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	12	2024	$1.20 Add
From Part 1: Resistance from Turtle Island Billie Pierre, Nlaka’pamux Land Defender From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	This section includes Billie Pierre’s court statement and reflections following her arrest after blocking heavy machinery with her vehicle to halt logging ahead of TMX pipeline construction.	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	8	2024	$0.80 Add
From Part 2: Resistance from a place of spirit Tama Ward, Storyteller and Educator From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	This section includes Tama Wards court statement detailing her decision to block access to the TMX pipeline construction and the events of that day.	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	7	2024	$0.70 Add