Environmental Studies
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From  Hotel of Last ResortFrom: Fighting For Space |
In 1993, Liz Evans and Mark Townsend were trying to secure housing for some of the neighbourhood’s most difficult tenants. A community ravaged by drug abuse and disease that every level of … | Travis Lupick | 34 | 2017 | $1.02 Add |
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From  NEW! How To Be White at the End of the World |
In this chapter, Boyd explores how class, social power, and race contribute to how a person is impacted by the climate crisis. Boyd discusses the concept of "an equitable distribution of … | Andrew Boyd | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! How We Get From Here to ThereFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: The Movements’ Theories of Change – The Context – How We Understand and What We Value – How We Take Action – How We … | Jen Gobby | 49 | 2020 | $4.90 Add |
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From  In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social FixesFrom: Techno-Fix |
In Search of Solutions I: Counter-Technologies and Social Fixes discusses the limitations of technologies that attempt to counter the negative effects of previous technologies and also shows why … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 24 | 2011 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! InterludeA Walk in the Spring |
A poem by thirteen-year-old David Suzuki written in 1949 titled "A Walk in the Spring." | David Suzuki | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Making Common CauseInequality, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … | Seth Klein | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Messaging That Encourages Action |
In Chapter 3 Kaufman focuses how we talk about action in content to combating the climate crisis and explores how messaging effects the actions and willingness for others to join the fight. The … | Cynthia Kaufman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Mining in the Wake of GenocidesFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Mining in the Guatemalan Mafia State – When You Benefit from Destruction: United Church of Canada Pension Fund and Goldcorp | Jackie McVicar; Sandra Cuffe | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Nature Education and PromotionFrom: The Culture of Nature |
The chapter examines the growing desire to educate the public, in particular school-aged children, about the preservation and conservation of nature and the environment. The chapter includes 15 … | Alexander Wilson | 40 | 2019 | $4.00 Add |
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From  Net-Zero ChallengeFrom: Getting to Zero |
Indentifies how Canada, in contrast to several other countries, has failed to develop a credible plan of action for reducing greenhouse gas emissions to net-zero by 2050. Proposes that an … | Tony Clarke | 18 | 2018 | $1.80 Add |
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From  Niall Ferguson in Conversation with Rudyard GriffithsMay 6, 2020 From: The World After Covid |
Niall Ferguson and Rudyard Griffiths discuss history and possible political, social, economic, and cultural consequences of the pandemic. Topics include historical precedence, public response, … | Rudyard Griffiths | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Not In My Backyard |
The Politics of Race, Place, and Waste in Nova Scotia | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From  On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … | Richard Heinberg | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton GasPart One: Dispossession at Home |
In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who … | Ingrid Waldron | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  One PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk? Where are … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksWater and Sewage |
North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
