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Reinventing Governance

Reinventing Governance

From: 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. ; ; ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Relatives

From: 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 … 58 $5.80 Add
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Research Backwater

Research Backwater

From: 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 … 31 $3.10 Add
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Resistance Movement

Resistance Movement

From: 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 … 35 $3.50 Add
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Resisting Least Resistance

Resisting Least Resistance

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar Sands

Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar Sands

Part 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 … 8 $0.80 Add
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Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

From: 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 … 21 $2.10 Add
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Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title

Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

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 … 4 $0.40 Add
Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire

High-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 … 220 View
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Savoring the Biosphere

Savoring the Biosphere

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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 … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Scientific Salvation

Scientific Salvation

From: 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 … 30 $3.00 Add
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Sculpted by River and Story

Sculpted by River and Story

From: 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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach to Tar Sands Resistance

Secondary Targeting: A Strategic Approach to Tar Sands Resistance

Part 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 … 11 $1.10 Add
Secret Life of Your Microbiome

Secret Life of Your Microbiome

Why 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 … ; 387 View
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Seeing With New Eyes

Seeing With New Eyes

From: 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, … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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Seeking Social Licence for the Site C Dam

Seeking Social Licence for the Site C Dam

A 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 … 12 $1.20 Add