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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Preface by Molly Young BrownFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Living within a society that denies the pain it causes engenders deep conflict within us, but the taboos against speaking of it, or even seeing it, are subtle, strong and complex. Being nice … | Molly Young Brown | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
From ReawakeningFrom: Changing Tides |
In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! The Commons: Dispossession and ReclamationFrom: Civilizing the State |
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 Story that Got Us in TroubleFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the factors that have led society to the precipice of collapse: institutionalized greed, increased stratification of wealth and unregulated economic growth. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
From Tragedy of the White AmurFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by the United States government to regulate the transport and breeding of non-native species. | Andrew Reeves | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
From Urban Water CrisesFrom: Dry Run |
Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
From Will Canada’s Future Be Dammed? Site C Could Be the Tip of the IcebergFrom: Damming the Peace |
David Schindler, one of the world’s foremost water ecologists, explains the role of major dams, like Site C in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, in Canada’s climate change strategy. He … | David Schindler | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
From Wood: Like Never Before |
This chapter explores the role of wood in building efficient and modern buildings. | Andrew Lawrence; Francis Yang | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
From “That’s How We See It”Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace |
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 Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin |
Humans often need to see threats to the environment, and, by extension to their health and survival. Progressive losses over time can dilute urgency and awareness. So can progressive gains. One … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
From Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe |
This reading takes a country by country look at water activism in Europe. The beginnings of the Blue Community movement in Switzerland is discussed, followed by a discussion of the spread of … | Maude Barlow | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
From Chapter 3Radiation and the Human Body |
This chapter includes the following sections: Internal versus External Radiation – The Radiation Weighting Factor – How Radiation Damages Cells – The Impact of Radiation on Our … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 16 | 2014 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Chapter 4New Frontiers and the Post-War Mining Boom From: Mining Country |
This chapter discusses shifts in Canada’s mining industry in the past-war era. Topics discussed in this chapter include the history of asbestos mining in Quebec, the growth of mining in the … | Arn Keeling; John Sandlos | 40 | 2021 | $4.00 Add |
From NEW! Chapter ThreePrice and the Need for Speed |
In this chapter, Rand discusses carbon pricing as a way to limit emissions. He discusses the history of carbon pricing policies, and provides case studies of places where these policies have been … | Tom Rand | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
From Fuelling AmericaFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter argues that the prime reason for the rapid development of the tar sands is to provide a secure source of oil supplies for the US. Its sections are (a) America’s oil addiction: … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
From NEW! How We Get From Here to ThereFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: The Movements’ Theories of Change – The Context – How We Understand and What We Value – How We Take Action – How We … | Jen Gobby | 49 | 2020 | $4.90 Add |