Natural Resources
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! Facing and Resisting KCA / Radius Gold and Tahoe Resources on the GroundFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Interview: Yuri Melini, ILO 169 and Community Defence – Tahoe Resources’ Violent Mining Operation – The Peaceful Encampment at La Puya – Guatemalan … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
From Going PlacesEfficiency in Vehicles From: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which transportation could become more efficient. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! Part VI: Cobalt Goes GlobalFrom: Cobalt |
Part VI contains Chapter 19: Exporting Hinterland, Chapter 20: The Family Business, and Chapter 21: The Return to Cobalt. | Charlie Angus | 29 | 2022 | $2.90 Add |
From Resistance MovementFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
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 … | Tony Clarke | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
From The Big LieWhy and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace |
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 … | Joan Sawicki | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
From The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies |
- | Maristella Svampa | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929 |
Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929. | Ed Whitcomb | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
From To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
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, … | Andrew Thomson; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
From What is the Work that Reconnects?From: Coming Back to Life |
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 … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
From Winners and LosersStrategies for Countries to Consider From: Ecological Footprint |
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? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
From An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, Dams and Fracking From: Damming the Peace |
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. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From Chapter 7Uranium Mining |
This chapter includes the following sections: The Largest Release of Radioactivity in American History – Mining and Milling – Refining and Enriching – Health and Environmental … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! Conclusion: Rabbit Decolonizes El DoradoFrom: Cobalt |
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 … | Charlie Angus | 5 | 2022 | $0.50 Add |
From Ditching our Climate-Wrecking StoriesFrom: Changing Tides |
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 … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From Dream ChangeFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
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 … | Tony Clarke | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
From Encephalobiotics Turn the Mind |
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 … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 35 | 2017 | $3.50 Add |