Environmental Studies
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From  Climate ChangeA choice for humanity |
This chapter explores how the UN’s concern for environmental issues showcases how the organization has evolved to respond to the evolving needs of humanity | Douglas Roche | 9 | 2015 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Climate Justice?Wake Up, Canada, and Smell the Coffee! From: The Fair Trade Handbook |
This chapter concerns Canadian efforts to slow climate change, or the lack thereof. Continued inaction means that Indigenous peoples will be first and most effected. The author suggests … | Monika Firl | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Colonialism: The AccelerationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Colonialism was, and remains, a wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen. Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was incalculable, as … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 36 | 2018 | $3.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Curing the Heroin User with Jail: The 1940s and 50sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter discusses drug law enforcement in the 1940s and 1950s, examining statistics on narcotic use and convictions before World War 2 and the years following. The depiction of addicts in … | Susan C. Boyd | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! DesignFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on how to Design your environment for behaviour change. The chapter focuses on how you can design a new product, service, communication strategy, policy, choice architecture, … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 32 | 2022 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Earth’s Orbital Variations |
This chapter examines the role of the Earth’s orbital variations in determining the world’s climate. The tilt of the Earth’s axis and our irregular elliptical orbit around the … | Steven Earle | 15 | 2021 | $1.50 Add |
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From  EngineersFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In Engineers, the fourth chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the concept of ecological engineers, via a discussion of Indigenous peoples in the Pacific Northwest and their creation of … | Philip A. Loring | 31 | 2020 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Facilitation TechniquesFrom: Changemakers |
Suggestions for facilitation techniques. | Fay Weller; Mary Wilson | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 Add |
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From  Fair WealthFrom: Fair Future |
- | Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 31 | 2005 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Food Secure CanadaWhere Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect |
- | Cathleen Kneen | 17 | 2010 | $2.38 Add |
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From  Fuelling AmericaFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter argues that the prime reason for the rapid development of the tar sands is to provide a secure source of oil supplies for the US. Its sections are (a) America’s oil addiction: … | Tony Clarke | 41 | 2008 | $4.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Green Infrastructure for AllFrom: The End of This World |
Chapter 4 focuses on how for the energy transition to be just, green, and decolonial, it will also have to undo the theft of land and life that currently underlies the economy of so-called … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Guilt Trip |
In this chapter, the author explores how charges of hypocracy are leveled at environmentalists who have children. | Sami Grover | 18 | 2021 | $1.80 Add |
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From  HIV Criminalization in CanadaHow the Richest Middle Class in the World Decided to Call the Police on HIV-Positive People in Order to Cover Up Their Racism, Guilt, and Anxiety about Sexuality and Their Supremacy-Based Investment in Punishment From: Conflict Is Not Abuse |
This chapter expands the foundations of Conflict and Abuse through the surprising example of Canadian HIV criminalization, showing how the “moderate” presentation of a neoliberal … | Sarah Schulman | 28 | 2016 | $0.56 Add |
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From  NEW! Hold Fast to ThisFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Five explores Louise’s relationship with Leonard "Len" Lawrence. The chapter discusses her move to Cabane, her mother’s visit to Canada, her marriage to Len, and … | Merilyn Simonds | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
