Environmental Studies

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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
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

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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. 27 $2.70 Add
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Running on empty

Climate and environment

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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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 … 20 $2.00 Add
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Scene 2

Tara

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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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, … ; ; ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Section C: Changemakers’ Manual

From: Changemakers

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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 … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open Minds

Mistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris

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

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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, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Step Three

Reimagine Your Life Story

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

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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. ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Swinish Multitudes

From: Being and Swine

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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 … ; ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Technology, Exploitation and Fairness

From: Techno-Fix

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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 … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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The Beast in the Jaktorów Forest

From: Lost Feast

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In this chapter Newman explores the history of the cow, both as a animal and a food source. 19 $1.90 Add