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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific …	Jerry Yudelson	20	2010	$2.00 Add
From “That’s How We See It” Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	Journalist Andrew MacLeod interviews respected First Nations leader Helen Knott about the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on her community, and in …	Andrew MacLeod	17	2018	$1.70 Add
From The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	Perhaps we made our biggest error in thinking of the world as made of “stuff ” to begin with. Fortunately — and paradoxically — our very search for mastery and knowledge …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	27	2014	$2.70 Add
From The Big Lie Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	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
NEW! The Case for Climate Capitalism Economic Solutions for a Planet in Crisis ECW Press	A warming climate and a general distrust of Wall Street has opened a new cultural divide among those who otherwise agree we must mitigate climate risk: anti-market critics such as Naomi Klein …	Tom Rand	274	2020	View
From NEW! The Climate And Inequality Crises in Canada From: More Powerful Together View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter contains the following readings: Climate Crisis and Oil and Gas Development in Canada – Ongoing Impacts of Settler Colonialism in Canada – Social Movements in Canada	Jen Gobby	14	2020	$1.40 Add
From The Commons as a Different Way of Seeing and Being From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	Our tacit metaphysical commitments are the very basis for our “free market” economic and political structures. What’s so intriguing is that many scientists are starting to see …	David Bollier	20	2014	$2.00 Add
From NEW! The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The …	John Restakis	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From The Creation of a Global Water Justice Movement From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author provides a history of the Global Water Justice movement. She introduces the reader to a variety of individuals from around the world who have shaped this movement. The …	Maude Barlow	27	2019	$2.70 Add
From The Enbridge Pipeline Disaster and Accidental Activism along the Kalamazoo River Part II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 18 Sonia Grant focuses on the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River and the controversies that surrounded cleanup efforts. It discusses topics such the health impacts and gaps in …	Sonia Grant	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another The Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every …	Richard Heinberg	15	2010	$1.50 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on …	Richard Heinberg	19	2010	$1.90 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Boomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another A Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Talking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies From: Development in Latin America View Fernwood Publishing		Maristella Svampa	12	2019	$1.20 Add