Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Energy SuperpowerFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter concerns the promotion of Canada as “the world’s next energy superpower,” largely because of the development of the tar sands, with these themes: (a) corporate … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
From NEW! Enough Already |
This chapter explores the disconnect between the reality of the environmental crisis, and the rhetoric of events such as Earth Day, which typically focuses on individual actions rather than … | Sami Grover | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
From NEW! Envisioning the AlternativesFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Decarbonizing – Decentralizing and Democratizing – Decolonizing – Reconnecting with Land and Each Other – Possible Tensions … | Jen Gobby | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Existential Crisis Scenario Planning |
In this chapter, Boyd discusses the collapse of civilization and the threat of human extinction. Boyd examines these possibilities and argues that the current situation demands realistic … | Andrew Boyd | 62 | 2023 | $6.20 Add |
From Extractive EconomyFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses Canadian economic history, focusing on the analysis that inteprets Canada as an extractive economy. Situates PMs Harper and Trudeau’s policies in this context. Examines the … | Tony Clarke | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
From Farm SubsidesFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
This chapter is primarily concerned with the ways in which farms subsidize us. First, most of the farmers who fall into this category of subsidizers own small to medium-sized farms, and they … | Gary S. Kleppel | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! Genocide’s Legacy on the Land and Dominant Economic ModelFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Profiting from Genocide: The World Bank and IDB’s Bloody History in Guatemala – The Genocidal Chixoy Dam Project – Testimonio: Sebastian Iboy Osorio … | Cyril Mychalejko; Nathan Einbinder | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
From Global warmingWhat industry knew and when they knew it From: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft analyzes the history of the science around global warming paying particular attention to the organizations and people involved with studying the … | Kevin Taft | 20 | 2017 | $2.00 Add |
From Heroin Criminalization: The 1920s and 30sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses the criminalization of heroin in the 1920s and 1930s. Emily Murphy’s role in creating a racialized and sexualized construction of drug use is examined, as well as the … | Susan C. Boyd | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
From Instrinsic and Extrinsic HopeFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
We have the means to uncover the intrinsic hope that is inherent in all life. We can use our pain and suffering to uncover the positivity and love of intrinsic hope. We can acquire an emotional … | Kate Davies | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
From International Trade Agreements and the Ontario Green Energy ActOpportunities and Obstacles From: Climate@Work |
- | John Shields; Stephen McBride | 16 | 2013 | $1.60 Add |
From KeystoneFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In Keystone, the third chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the ecological concept of a keystone species, as well as what happens when keystone species are removed, called ecological … | Philip A. Loring | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From NEW! Mass Movements: Our Only HopeFrom: Future on Fire |
Chapter 3 examines how mass movements, the actions of millions of everyday people have played a role in changing our society for the better and can become the method to bring real change and … | David Camfield | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Mni WiconiFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
From Buffalo to Black Snake – The Deep North – The Seventh Generation – The Rise of the Water Protector – The Siege at River’s Edge – The Art of Indigenous … | Winona LaDuke | 64 | 2020 | $6.40 Add |
From Models of Resource JusticeFrom: Fair Future |
- | Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 31 | 2005 | $3.10 Add |
From Nature as HealerFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
In this chapter, the author shares her personal story of a health crisis and the role of nature in helping her recover. She reflects on the role of nature in her childhood, weaving in broader … | Angelou Ezeilo | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |