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From  Culture WorksPart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 15 Christine Leclerc and Rex Weyler explore the power and devastation of the tar sands in a project called “The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres,” poetry written in … | Christine Leclerc; Rex Weyler | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
 Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | Wendy Holm | 272 | 2018 | View |
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From  Defending Mother Earth |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the qualifications of Indigenous people to weigh in on climate matters and promote clean energy policies and relates this to economic decisions in Canada. | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Deep Time – Reconnecting with Past and Future GenerationsFrom: Coming Back to Life |
People of today relate to time in a way that is surely unique in history. The technologies and economic forces unleashed by the Industrial Growth Society radically alter our experience of time, … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 23 | 2014 | $2.30 Add |
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From Democracy and Civil DisobedienceFrom: Damming the Peace |
Legendary B.C. broadcaster and former politician Rafe Mair sets out the argument that the fight to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley is a conflict about … | Rafe Mair | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Designing Group ProjectsFrom: Common Threads |
When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone: • Someone comes into the project … | Sharon Kallis | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
 Development in Latin AmericaToward a New Future |
In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the … | Maristella Svampa | 122 | 2019 | View |
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From Dimensions of the Ecoterritorial Turn |
Maristella Svampa | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add | |
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From  NEW! Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion: A Path to Social Sustainability in the Fashion IndustryFrom: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Bedi explores environmental sustainability as a complex, multi-framed field spanning the eighteenth century to the present. | Nilam Bedi | 17 | 2025 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Dream ChangeFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … | Tony Clarke | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
 Dry RunPreventing the Next Urban Water Crisis |
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … | Jerry Yudelson | 312 | 2010 | View |
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From  Duped and HowA Case Study: Foreign-Funded Radicals |
Never has there been a greater disparity between what scientists say we should be concerned about and what members of government and the oil and gas industry are doing. In this case study I … | James Hoggan | 15 | 2016 | $1.50 Add |
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From  "Eat ’em to Beat ’em"From: Overrun |
This chapter explores the possibility of controlling invasive species by using them as a food source. Topics include the process of food production and the communication and marketing efforts … | Andrew Reeves | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Ditching our Climate-Wrecking StoriesFrom: Changing Tides |
We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
 Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 290 | 2019 | View |
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From Ecological Hinterland: How much Biocapacity Does a City Need?From: Ecological Footprint |
This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
