Environmental Studies
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From  Rivers and Lakes in TroubleFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. | Marq de Villiers | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Running on emptyClimate and environment |
The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of … | James Wilt | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Scene 2Tara |
Scene 2 focuses on Tara and her decades-spanning relationship and work with her husband, David Suzuki. It discusses immigration, World War II, discrimination, marriage and married life, activism, … | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 13 | 2022 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Section C: Changemakers’ ManualFrom: Changemakers |
This chapter is a hands-on workshop for those who want to build change. There may be a need in your community that you want to respond to, or you may have already started implementing a change … | Fay Weller; Mary Wilson | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris |
The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies |
This chapter will provide an overview of how to design effective strategies. Developing a community-based social marketing strategy involves addressing two behaviors simultaneously: 1) the … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 4 | 2011 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Step ThreeReimagine Your Life Story |
This chapter asks us to reassess the purpose of our lives in the context of facing the climate emergency. We must recast ourselves as the heroes of this story and start to act accordingly. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 11 | 2020 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Stopping Monsanto: Coalition Building Against rBGH and GM WheatFrom: Frontline Farmers |
The third chapter examines the NFU’s work in building a coalition against Monsanto and genetically modified crops and bovine growth hormone. Interviews are with Peter Dowling, Lucy … | Carla Fehr | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Swinish MultitudesFrom: Being and Swine |
In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir provides a brief overview of the history of pigs in agriculture in Europe. The chapter also includes a discussion of the ways in which pigs have acted as a … | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 29 | 2020 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Technology, Exploitation and FairnessFrom: Techno-Fix |
Technology, Exploitation and Fairness advances the thesis that many technologies are regrettably used for control and exploitation of both humans and the environment, leading inevitably to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 27 | 2011 | $2.70 Add |
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From  The Beast in the Jaktorów ForestFrom: Lost Feast |
In this chapter Newman explores the history of the cow, both as a animal and a food source. | Lenore Newman | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Commons: Dispossession and ReclamationFrom: Civilizing the State |
The Commons: Dispossession and Reclamation begins with an examination of the loss of groundwater in Chennai, India, looking at the political, economic and land-use histories leading to it. The … | John Restakis | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Local GarbagemanFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter explores Richmond Township’s geology, goegraphy, and history, as well as the story of Fred Sutcliffe. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 6 | 2017 | $0.60 Add |
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From  The Physics of CreationFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, Weber examines how complex natural patterns reveal the interrelated nature of life and the anorganic environment. | Andreas Weber | 18 | 2016 | $1.80 Add |
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From  The PullFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
The process of the medium, of i-tech itself, is what is attractive; it draws us in. And this draw, or pull effect, is what has the potential to alter behavior. For example, the central concept in … | Mari K Swingle | 9 | 2019 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Story that Got Us in TroubleFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the factors that have led society to the precipice of collapse: institutionalized greed, increased stratification of wealth and unregulated economic growth. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
