Environmental Studies

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Degrowth
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Degrowth

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 8 explores the idea of degrowth, as opposed to the role of perpetual economic growth which had led to the current ecological crisis. 20 $2.00 Add
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Democracy and Civil Disobedience

Democracy and Civil Disobedience

From: Damming the Peace

Legendary B.C. broadcaster and former politician Rafe Mair sets out the argument that the fight to stop the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley is a conflict about … 13 $1.30 Add
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Designing Group Projects

Designing Group Projects

From: Common Threads

When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone: • Someone comes into the project … 12 $1.20 Add
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Designing Out Disorder
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Designing Out Disorder

From: Messy Cities

Cara Chellew writes about defensive urbanism, and the ways that attempts to control public space reduces its flexibility, threatening its social and political dimensions. 6 $0.60 Add
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Developing Strategies - Revisited

Developing Strategies – Revisited

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

The preceding seven chapters introduced a series of behavior change tools that can be incorporated into a communitybased social marketing strategy. To showcase how to utilize these tools, a … 7 $0.70 Add
Development in Latin America

Development in Latin America

Toward a New Future

In Development in Latin America, Maristella Svampa explores the contemporary development and resistance dynamics of capitalist development — the workings (on people and societies) of the … 122 View
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Did You Hang Up Your Towel?

Did You Hang Up Your Towel?

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 10 $1.00 Add
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Dimensions of the Ecoterritorial Turn

Dimensions of the Ecoterritorial Turn

From: Development in Latin America

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Dissociation

Dissociation

From: Radical Transformation

Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems … 12 $1.20 Add
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Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories

From: Changing Tides

We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … 8 $0.80 Add
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Diversity in Agriculture

Diversity in Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

For the farmer, biodiversity is both domestic and wild, and a farm can be a place where biodiversity flourishes or from which it is excluded. The way farmers relate to biodiversity distinguishes … 14 $1.40 Add
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Dream Change

Dream Change

From: Tar Sands Showdown

This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … 40 $4.00 Add
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Driving into the World: From the Oil Crisis to the Millenium
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Driving into the World: From the Oil Crisis to the Millenium

From: Car Nation Canada

In this chapter, Anastakis describes the history of Canada’s auto industry from early 1970s to 2000. He covers the history of key manufacturing firms, including incoming Japanese and Swedish … 14 $1.40 Add
Dry Run

Dry Run

Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … 312 View
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Duped and How

Duped and How

A Case Study: Foreign-Funded Radicals

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Never has there been a greater disparity between what scientists say we should be concerned about and what members of government and the oil and gas industry are doing. In this case study I … 15 $1.50 Add