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  NEW! Science and Indigenous Knowledge as the Evidentiary Basis for Impact Assessment |
This chapter considers the Impact Assessment Act’s (IAA) approach to science and Indigenous knowledge by setting out the roles that science and Indigenous knowledge play in establishing the … | Martin Olszynski | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Hundred Block RockFrom: Fighting For Space |
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Bud Osborn was part of a grassroots group of addicts who transformed how the City of Vancouver treats people addicted to drugs. He helped pioneer North … | Travis Lupick | 25 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Hungry for SomethingFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Three follows Louise’s time as a nurse during the First World War at a Russian POW camp on the Eastern Front. The chapter follows her first meeting and later marriage to Russian … | Merilyn Simonds | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Hyper-National OrganizationsFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
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From  i-Addiction and i-LifeThe Beginnings of a New World From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
The realm of i-tech is not just a new space that allows for the extension of boundaries of communication and the maintenance of distal relationships; it is a new space, or rather a new world, one … | Mari K Swingle | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
i-Minds, 2nd editionHow and Why Constant Connectivity is Rewiring Our Brains and What to Do About it |
The way we use i-technology is affecting our health and happiness. While programs, devices, information, and constant connectivity can offer us ease, liberation, and efficiency, they can also … | 528 | View | ||
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From i-Tech and HealthcareTo Care or i-Care From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
It is time to have closer look at i-tech in caretaking, healthcare, and perhaps in caring in its larger sense too. Let’s start with healthcare. | Mari K Swingle | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From i-Trust and i-PrivacySocial, Economic, and Political Manipulation From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
A huge issue that permeates all angles of the i-tech industry is that of trust. Both primary branches — the entertainment branch (e.g., the gaming industry), the social communication branch … | Mari K Swingle | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
 NEW! I Want a Better CatastropheNavigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor |
An existential manual for tragic optimists, can-do pessimists, and compassionate doomers WITH GLOBAL WARMING projected to rocket past the 1.5°C limit, lifelong activist Andrew Boyd is thrown … | 422 | View | ||
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From  Ideas & CultureFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
Robert MacNeil | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add | |
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From  NEW! IdeologyPART 1: Essential Groundwork From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 2 examines how ideology affects how we process and attempt to tackle the climate crisis. | Aaron Saad | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
 I’m Right and You’re an IdiotThe Toxic State of Public Discourse and How to Clean it Up |
The most pressing environmental problem we face today is not climate change. It is pollution in the public square, where a smog of adversarial rhetoric, propaganda and polarization stifles … | 275 | View | ||
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From  ImagineFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the HANDY study, which identifies the factors that precipitate societal collapse, and asks whether we are headed for such a collapse. This chapter also imagines a … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From NEW! Transparency and Accountability in Decision MakingDoes the Impact Assessment Act Support Credible Decision Making? |
This chapter considers the central decision points the Assessment Act (IAA) determines the extent to which the Act codifies mechanisms to provide for transparency and accountability in decisions. … | Jason Unger | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Implementation of a Two-Eyed Seeing Treatment Model in an Indigenous Residential Treatment ProgramFrom: About Face |
The final section of the book discusses a variety of organizations that work to help people suffering from addictions. | Carol Eshkakogan; Teresa Naseba Marsh | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
