Natural Resources

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Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the Ground

From: Testimonio

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Essays in this section: Interview: Yuri Melini, ILO 169 and Community Defence – Tahoe Resources’ Violent Mining Operation – The Peaceful Encampment at La Puya – Guatemalan … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Going Places

Efficiency in Vehicles

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores ways in which transportation could become more efficient. ; ; ; 4 $0.40 Add
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Part VI: Cobalt Goes Global

From: Cobalt

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Part VI contains Chapter 19: Exporting Hinterland, Chapter 20: The Family Business, and Chapter 21: The Return to Cobalt. 29 $2.90 Add
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Resistance Movement

From: Tar Sands Showdown

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Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … 35 $3.50 Add
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The Big Lie

Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate

From: Damming the Peace

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Former B.C. Environment Minister Joan Sawicki sets out her analysis that BC Hydro “overlooked” the importance of microclimate in its agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam … 9 $0.90 Add
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The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies

From: Development in Latin America

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The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929

From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces

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Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929. 17 $1.70 Add
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To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … ; 11 $1.10 Add
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What is the Work that Reconnects?

From: Coming Back to Life

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As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Winners and Losers

Strategies for Countries to Consider

From: Ecological Footprint

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If we take resource security seriously, how does it shift development strategies? How will our ability to succeed shift in a world of climate change and resource constraints? ; 17 $1.70 Add
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An Unnatural History

Earthquakes, Dams and Fracking

From: Damming the Peace

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Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. 13 $1.30 Add
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Chapter 7

Uranium Mining

From: From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

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This chapter includes the following sections: The Largest Release of Radioactivity in American History – Mining and Milling – Refining and Enriching – Health and Environmental … ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Conclusion: Rabbit Decolonizes El Dorado

From: Cobalt

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The conclusion reflects on the need to gain a deeper knowledge about the convergence of environment, resources, community, and Indigeneity as well as discusses how lessons from Cobalt can help us … 5 $0.50 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

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We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add
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Dream Change

From: Tar Sands Showdown

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This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … 40 $4.00 Add
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Encephalobiotics Turn the Mind

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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In this chapter, we more closely examine specific microbial and nutritional interventions, and the prospect that we might regain health by correcting dysbiosis and manipulating microbes. The … ; 35 $3.50 Add