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From ![]() Reinventing GovernanceFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores the changes in how we govern others that will allow us to create a more sustainable future for everyone. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! RelativesFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Seeds of Hope: Mino Gitigaaning – Omaakaakii: In Praise of Frogs – I Miss You – Free the Snake – How Do We Grieve the Death of a River? – Amazon Should Save the … | Winona LaDuke | 58 | 2020 | $5.80 Add |
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From ![]() Research BackwaterFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author visits the Louisiana Bayous and meets with researchers studying Asian carp. Topics include the challenges researchers face in collecting usable data to understand the … | Andrew Reeves | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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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 |
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From ![]() Resisting Least ResistanceFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 8 Harjap Grewal focuses on the Canadian responses to Chinese investments in the tar sands, exploring topics including international trade agreements, xenophobia and the history of … | Harjap Grewal | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the Tsilhqot’in court case of 2014 to outline Canada’s policy on Aboriginal vs. Crown title and how the government responded to Supreme … | Arthur Manuel | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
![]() Ring of FireHigh-Stakes Mining in Lowlands Wilderness |
In this colorful tale, Virginia Heffernan draws on her bush and newsroom experiences to illustrate the complexities of resource development at a time when Indigenous rights are becoming enshrined … | Virginia Haffernan | 220 | 2023 | View |
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From ![]() Savoring the Biosphere |
Microbes are at the origins of all life on our planet, silent partners to the evolution of every form of life and long, long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. We are only now learning of … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 22 | 2017 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() Scientific SalvationFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author travels to Minnesota to interview researchers at the Minnesota Aquatic Invasive Species Research Center (MAISRC). Topics discussed include different non-physical … | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From ![]() Sculpted by River and StoryFrom: Changing Tides |
Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … | Alejandro Frid | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach to Tar Sands ResistancePart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 26 Stephan D’Arcy examines strategies to tar sand resistance by Indigenous communities, environmental NGOs, trade unions, and community defence organizations, and how to bring it … | Stephen D'Arcy | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
![]() Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() Seeing With New EyesFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We move into the next stage of the Spiral as we realize from personal experience that it is from our connectivity that our pain for the world arises. The very distress that, when we hid it, … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 34 | 2014 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Seeking Social Licence for the Site C DamA Planner’s Perspective from the Peace River Waterfront From: Damming the Peace |
A Peace River Valley planner on the concept of social license, why it’s important for major projects, and how, in the case of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River … | Reg Whiten | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |















