Environmental Studies
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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 |
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From ![]() Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace 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 … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Black Hole SunFrom: 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. | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 24 | 2020 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() BlackwaterFrom: 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 … | Jerry Yudelson | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() BlindersFrom: 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 … | Kelly S. Thompson | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Defending Our Land |
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 |
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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 |
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From ![]() Blue Communities Take Root in Canada |
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 |
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From ![]() Blue WaterFrom: 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 … | Jerry Yudelson | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
![]() Border and RuleMigration, 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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From ![]() Boxed InAnxiety 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 … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Breaking the TranceFrom: 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 … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Bright Lights Cast Long ShadowsFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 27 | 2024 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() Bringing it HomeFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter emphasizes how big picture changes need to begin on a local scale to be effective | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Bringing the Market Back In: BC Natural Resource Policies During the Campbell Years |
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 … | George Hoberg | 22 | 2009 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() British Columbia and Climate Change: Sustainable Leadership? |
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. | Heather Smith | 18 | 2009 | $1.80 Add |















