Natural Resources

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Peak Everything Waking Up to the Century of Declines New Society Publishers	A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of …	Richard Heinberg	240	2010	View
From Peter Lougheed and the Rise of the Oil Sands From: Oi's Deep State View James Lorimer and Company	Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against …	Kevin Taft	9	2017	$0.90 Add
From Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil …	Angela V. Carter	13	2014	$1.30 Add
From Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice Part II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands …	Toban Black	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle Island Part III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	Chapter 23 examines resistance to pipelines across Turtle island (Canada), discussing Indigenous resistance and the anti-pipeline movement, decolonization, the resurgence of Indigenous …	Sâkihitowin Awâsis	14	2014	$1.40 Add
From Placemaking for Community From: Common Threads View New Society Publishers	A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive …	Sharon Kallis	32	2014	$3.20 Add
From Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	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 …	Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens; Wil Srubar	16	2017	$1.60 Add
From Postscript From: Overrun View ECW Press	Postscript	Andrew Reeves	5	2019	$0.50 Add
From Preface How This Book Came to Be From: Standing on High Ground View Between The Lines	Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Robnies, and Tim Bray, discuss how this book came to be. First of their meeting while resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) in 2018, and the work it …	Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray	2	2024	$0.20 Add
From Preface From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the …	Tony Clarke	6	2008	$0.60 Add
From Preface From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Preface: Framing the Shot From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of …	Alex Harris	9	2018	$0.90 Add
From NEW! Preface From: The Case for Climate Capitalism View ECW Press	Preface	Tom Rand	8	2020	$0.80 Add
From Preface From: From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You View Between The Lines	Preface	Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck	4	2014	$0.40 Add
From Preface by Joanna Macy From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	This is a guidebook. It maps ways into our innate vitality and determination to take part in the self-healing of our world. It presents a form of group work that has grown steadily since the …	Joanna Macy	3	2014	$0.30 Add
From Preface by Molly Young Brown From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	Living within a society that denies the pain it causes engenders deep conflict within us, but the taboos against speaking of it, or even seeing it, are subtle, strong and complex. Being nice …	Molly Young Brown	5	2014	$0.50 Add