Environmental Studies

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5. Privatizing the Atmosphere

Introduction Durban Declaration on Carbon Trading (Durban Group) Cap and Trade Schemes (Chris Williams) The Obscenity of Carbon Trading (Kevin Smith) Why Carbon Markets Can't Save the World (Andrew Simms) Six Agruments Against Carbon Trading (Larry Lohmann)

From: The Global Fight for Climate Justice

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A Question of Spirit

From: About Face

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On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these … 8 $0.80 Add
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Affective Neuroscience

From: The Biology of Wonder

This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. 30 $3.00 Add
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Agreements for Fairness and Ecology

From: Fair Future

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Big Oil and Think Tanks Besiege Kyoto

From: The Big Stall

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Examines the business led campaign to discredit the Kyoto Accord in the 1990s and 2000s. Big business lobbied for a "made in Canada" solution while funding a massive anti-Kyoto … 20 $2.00 Add
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Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … 17 $1.70 Add
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Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and Walleye

Peace River Biodiversity

From: Damming the Peace

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B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … 16 $1.60 Add
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Canada’s Carbon Record

From: About Canada: The Environment

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Canadian Diplomatic Efforts to Sell the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 4 Yves Engler discusses Canadian diplomacy in the decades of its rapidly growing tar sands and its push for carbon-heavy oil globally. It discusses topics including international … 9 $0.90 Add
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Careers

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

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The author delves into how her organization, Greening Youth Foundation, has created career opportunities for diverse youth, especially in the US National Park Service and other federal agencies, … 15 $1.50 Add
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Chapter 4

East Point Park

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

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Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes East Point Park and its Bird Sanctuary, overlooking Lake Ontario from atop Toronto’s Scarborough Bluffs. He outlines the impressive diversity of … 3 $0.30 Add
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Radiation in Medicine

From: From Hiroshima to Fukushima to You

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This chapter includes the following sections: Early Use of Radium – X-Rays – Radiopharmaceuticals – CT Scans – PET Scans – SPECT Scans – Other Scans – … ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Chapter 5

Rough Terrain, 1973-2016

From: Mining Country

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This chapter discusses mining in Canada at the end of the 20th century, and into the early 21st century. Topics discussed in this chapter include increasing resistance to new mines from … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Chapter 5

Nature’s Intelligence

From: Renewal

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This chapter explores the concept of intelligence and the ways in which the natural world displays a systemic ability to solve problems and overcome obstacles. 16 $1.60 Add
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Chapter 5

In Serious Condition

From: Saved by Science

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