Natural Resources
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Gravity SuspendedFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Common Threads |
By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look … | Sharon Kallis | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
From IntroductionA Meeting of Hearts, Minds and Microbiomes |
For centuries, humans have seen nature as something we must dominate, conquer, and tame, progressively eroding the natural resilience of ecosystems, with the loss of many species more vulnerable … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
From IntroductionFootprint: Why? From: Ecological Footprint |
- | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Mining Country |
Introduction | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 8 | 2021 | $0.80 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Getting to Zero |
Identifies how the 2016 wildfires in Fort McMurray should cause Canada to confront climate change. Discusses how oil sand production has increased and why this needs to change for Canada to … | Tony Clarke | 7 | 2018 | $0.70 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
- | Winona LaDuke | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Still Hopeful |
In the Introduction, author and activist Maude Barlow reflects on her 40-year career in social justice and what motivates her to continue the fight: hope. Barlow explains the motivation behind … | Maude Barlow | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
From IntroductionFrom: Overrun |
In the introduction, the author describes how he first learned about the threat of Asian carp to North American ecosystems. This chapter also provides a brief overview of the introduction of … | Andrew Reeves | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
From Introduction |
Introduction | Maude Barlow | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From Message from the Dalai LamaFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We live at a time when human actions have developed a creative and destructive power that has become global in scope. And yet we fail to cultivate a corresponding sense of responsibility. Most of … | Dalai Lama | 2 | 2014 | $0.20 Add |
From NEW! Preface |
Preface | Tom Rand | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From Preface |
Preface | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
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 PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
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: The Demon MetalFrom: Cobalt |
In the Preface author Charlie Angus provides a brief history of cobalt and its importance to digital technology, clean energy, and electric vehicles. He also discusses the darker side of cobalt … | Charlie Angus | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |