Environmental Studies

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Step 2: Identifying Barriers and Benefits

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Uncovering barriers and benefits involves four steps. 1) Begin by reviewing relevant articles and reports. 2) Following this review, carry out observations of people engaging in the behavior you … 20 $0.40 Add
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Step Two

Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

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This chapter suggests that readers must be willing to accept and cope with the feelings of fear and grief that accompany the thought of climate change. By not allowing these negative feelings to … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Suppression of Indigenous Sovereignty in Canada’s “Consent-by-Default” Industry

Part One: Dispossession at Home

From: Capitalism and Dispossession

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In Chapter 3, author Aedan Alderson reflects on the role of dispossession in Canada’s land use planning industry by drawing on case studies that highlight the techniques, processes, and … 25 $2.50 Add
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Taking Stock of Canada’s Ecosystems

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

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At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Creation of a Global Water Justice Movement

From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

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In this reading, the author provides a history of the Global Water Justice movement. She introduces the reader to a variety of individuals from around the world who have shaped this movement. The … 27 $2.70 Add
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The Five Stages of Climate Grief

From: I Want a Better Catastrophe

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In this chapter, Boyd discusses climate grief and the six stages that accompany this process; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and gallows humour. This chapter includes an … 43 $4.30 Add
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The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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This chapter looks at the industrial food system — its origins and the problems it generates — which casts yet more doubt on the conventional wisdom that industrial agriculture is the … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Life Rural

Part One

From: Earthkeeping

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Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Machine That Can Die

From: The Biology of Wonder

In this chapter, the author explores "holistic biology," which considers both bodily and inner experiences as biological phenomena. 34 $3.40 Add
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The Paradox of Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … 6 $0.60 Add
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The Racialized Other and the Opium Act: The Early 1900s

From: Heroin

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This chapter examines socially constructed definitions of "good" vs "bad" drugs and narcotic prohibition in Canada. The unequal enforcement of drug laws and how this impacts … 18 $1.80 Add
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The Rise & Fall of Canada’s Climate Leadership

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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The Rising of the Women

From: Still Hopeful

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In Chapter Two Barlow reflects on the three interrelated but distinct stages of her own social justice journey from first working within the women’s movement with Canada, the international … 33 $3.30 Add
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The State of Our Groundwater

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. 17 $1.70 Add