Environmental Studies
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From ![]() Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions |
This chapter is about why we have volcanic eruptions, how they differ in style and in size and why that’s important, and how they affect the Earth’s climate both on a short time … | Steven Earle | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined |
In this chapter, the author explores the recent rise of Certified B Corporations, which are governed by a set of criteria that includes waste management practices, energy consumption, … | Sami Grover | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() Corporate TransformationFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which the underlying corporate structure upon which our economy is built will need to reorganize and refocus towards long term sustainability. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It |
This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and … | Barbara Rodriquez Droguett; Catherine De Wolf; Kathrina Simonen | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Legal Billy Club |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines how court injunctions are used by government and industry when Indigenous people take a stand for their land rights. He uses his personal experience as … | Arthur Manuel | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Critical Development Studies Series |
Maristella Svampa | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add | |
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From ![]() Croplands, Forests, and OceansHow Much Biocapacity Do We Have? From: Ecological Footprint |
This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() Crude AwakeningFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter covers the early development of the tar sands with the following subsections: (a) black gold: the pioneers who developed the technology to extract oil from the tar sands; (b) land … | Tony Clarke | 38 | 2008 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() CSAFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model is transformative. It changes the way farmers farm, the way markets function, and the way consumers relate to the production chain. The CSA model … | Gary S. Kleppel | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing ClimateFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
The final chapter of the book looks beyond the farm and assesses ways for the entire food production system – from farm to table – to become more resilient. Everything from … | Laura Lengnick | 34 | 2015 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() Culturally Relevant CurriculumFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
This chapter reminds readers of the importance of culturally relevant curriculum materials and provides a full lesson plan example. | Angelou Ezeilo | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Culture WorksPart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 15 Christine Leclerc and Rex Weyler explore the power and devastation of the tar sands in a project called “The Enpipe Line: 70,000+ kilometres,” poetry written in … | Christine Leclerc; Rex Weyler | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Curing the Heroin User with Jail: The 1940s and 50sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses drug law enforcement in the 1940s and 1950s, examining statistics on narcotic use and convictions before World War 2 and the years following. The depiction of addicts in … | Susan C. Boyd | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
![]() Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | 272 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Dangerous opportunities |
The author describes world leaders and thinkers who posit: never let a good crisis go to waste. He continues: conflict is an essential driver of human progress, so long as it is managed … | Arno Kopecky | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |



















