Natural Resources

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
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
From The Environmental NGO Industry and Frontline Communities Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 5 Dave Vasey reflects on the deep historical narrative of activism, examining the relationship between environmental non-governmental organizations (ENGOs) and tar sands campaigns, and …	Dave Vasey	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From Sculpted by River and Story From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	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
From The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author provides the background on how she became involved in water activism. She goes on to discuss how government deregulation has allowed corporations to exploit water as a …	Maude Barlow	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From NEW! The Fight for Water Justice From: Still Hopeful View ECW Press	In Chapter Four Barlow focuses on the fight for water justice and her own activism. The chapter focuses on topics such as the commercialization of Canadian water, the North American Free Trade …	Maude Barlow	41	2022	$4.10 Add
From The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929 From: Rivals for Power: Ottawa and the Provinces View James Lorimer and Company	Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929.	Ed Whitcomb	17	2017	$1.70 Add
From The Future of the Commons From: Think Like a Commoner View New Society Publishers	There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. …	David Bollier	8	2014	$0.80 Add
From The Glorious Gate From: Overrun View ECW Press	This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes.	Andrew Reeves	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and Mind From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	perils facing life on Earth are so massive and unprecedented they are hard even to take in. The very danger signals that should rivet our attention, summon up the blood and bond us in collective …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	17	2014	$1.70 Add