Environmental Studies

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Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin

Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

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 … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye

Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye

Peace River Biodiversity

From: Damming the Peace

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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Black Hole Sun
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Black Hole Sun

From: Being and Swine

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. ; ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Blackwater

Blackwater

From: Dry Run

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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Blinders

Blinders

From: About Face

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 … 7 $0.70 Add
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Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe

Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe

From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

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 … 22 $2.20 Add
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Blue Communities Take Root in Canada

Blue Communities Take Root in Canada

From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

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 … 25 $2.50 Add
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Blue Water

Blue Water

From: Dry Run

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 … 17 $1.70 Add
Border and Rule

Border and Rule

Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism

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 racial … 320 View
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Boxed In

Boxed In

Anxiety in the Masses

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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Breaking the Trance

Breaking the Trance

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

Media feeds were no longer resembling information distribution (fun or otherwise) they were starting to sound a lot like propaganda. Everything was now far too sweet to taste like truth and now … 16 $1.60 Add
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Bright Lights Cast Long Shadows

Bright Lights Cast Long Shadows

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 27 $2.70 Add
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Bringing it Home

Bringing it Home

From: A Finer Future

This chapter emphasizes how big picture changes need to begin on a local scale to be effective ; ; ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Bringing the Market Back In: BC Natural Resource Policies During the Campbell Years

Bringing the Market Back In: BC Natural Resource Policies During the Campbell Years

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

Examination of the origins, nature and consequences of changes to governance and policy for natural resources since 2001 under a Liberal government, specifically in relation to the forest and … 22 $2.20 Add
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British Columbia and Climate Change: Sustainable Leadership?

British Columbia and Climate Change: Sustainable Leadership?

From: British Columbia Politics and Government

Investigation of claims by the BC government to be a leader in the battle against climate change, focusing on the period between 2002 and 2008. 18 $1.80 Add