Environmental Studies

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Neoliberalism and the World-Saving Market

PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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Chapter 4 reflects on the current neoliberal system and its primarily market-oriented solutions to tackle climate change. 22 $2.20 Add
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Nonextractivism and Development

From: Development in Latin America

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Origins

From: The Memory We Could Be

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To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … 8 $0.80 Add
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Design: A How-To Guide

From: Human Permaculture

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Definition of Design for Permaculture – The Nine Steps of Design – Three Examples of Design – Discovering My Personal Niche ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Greening the City

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … 16 $1.60 Add
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Part II: Settlement

From: Cobalt

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Part II contains Chapter 5: Boom Town, Chapter 6: Cobalt as Colony, Chapter 7: Women and the Domestication of Frontier, and Chapter 8: The Myth of the Gunless Frontier. 56 $5.60 Add
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Placemaking for Community

From: Common Threads

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A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … 32 $3.20 Add
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Power in the Holocene

The Rise of Social Inequality

From: Power

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In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … 67 $6.70 Add
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Preface by Molly Young Brown

From: Coming Back to Life

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Living within a society that denies the pain it causes engenders deep conflict within us, but the taboos against speaking of it, or even seeing it, are subtle, strong and complex. Being nice … 5 $0.50 Add
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Ready to Rally

Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, … 40 $4.00 Add
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Reawakening

From: Changing Tides

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In this chapter Frid explores how members of the Wuikinuxv village on Oweekeno Lake are reclaiming their agency by reconnecting to their cultural memory and long history from before colonization. … 8 $0.80 Add
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Regenerative Design

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö … 18 $1.80 Add
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Religious Fundamentalism vs. the Environment

From: Canada after Harper

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Joyce Nelson finds a close link between this political inaction and the adherence to religious fundamentalism by the Prime Minister and his closest allies. 21 $2.10 Add
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Rethinking Waste

From: There's Something in the Water

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Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape 13 $1.30 Add
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Rio to Kyoto

The Road Not Taken

From: The Big Stall

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Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … 16 $1.60 Add