Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Beyond Zero: The Time Value of Carbon From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	This chapter highlights the role of buildings and building materials in meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.	Erin McDade	9	2017	$0.90 Add
From Bhutan, Edmonton and Alberta: Models of Well-Being Economics From: An Economy of Well-Being View New Society Publishers	* Back to Edmonton: The City that Could * The Promise of Alberta * Alberta’s Preliminary Asset Accounts	Mark Anielski	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege Kyoto From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto …	Donald Gutstein	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From Big Oil Takes Control From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	Analyzes the rise of neo-liberalism think tanks in Canada and their impact on energy policy through the 1970s and 1980s. Trudeau’s Keynesian interventions such as the NEP and Petro Canada …	Donald Gutstein	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now View New Society Publishers	This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away …	Sami Grover	17	2021	$1.70 Add
From Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome View New Society Publishers	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 Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye: Peace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to …	Brian Churchill	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From NEW! Black Hole Sun From: Being and Swine View Collection: The Future of Food: How Small Farms are Responding to Climate Change and Corporate Agriculture Between The Lines	In the final chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses how we live in a black hole of overconsumption and by changing our perspective on the animal world, we can escape from that black hole.	Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes	24	2020	$2.40 Add
From Blackwater From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	However, wastewater is also another water source; after all if you live inland along a large river, your water supply started upriver as someone else’s wastewater. So, wastewater is just …	Jerry Yudelson	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Blinders From: About Face View Breakwater Books	The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these readings come from …	Kelly S. Thompson	7	2019	$0.70 Add
From Defending Our Land From: The Reconciliation Manifesto View James Lorimer and Company	Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel provides an overview of what Indigenous people face when they try to defend their lands looking specifically at the organizations Defenders of the Land and Idle …	Arthur Manuel	3	2017	$0.30 Add
From Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	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 Blue Communities Take Root in Canada From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author narrows her focus to look at water activism within Canada. The chapter explores the work of a variety of water activists across Canada. Particular focus is placed on …	Maude Barlow	25	2019	$2.50 Add
From Blue Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	With all the concern the past decade about reducing water consumption in both residential and non-residential uses, you’ll probably not find it surprising that the water field has begun to …	Jerry Yudelson	17	2010	$1.70 Add
Border and Rule Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism Fernwood Publishing	In Border and Rule, one of North America’s foremost thinkers and immigrant rights organizers delivers an unflinching examination of migration as a pillar of global governance and gendered …	Harsha Walia	320	2021	View
From Boxed In: Anxiety in the Masses From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher …	Mari K Swingle	17	2019	$1.70 Add