Environmental Studies
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From  NEW! Advice for Action |
In Chapter 5 Kaufman offers advice for understanding how social change happens. This chapter discusses topics including personal lifestyle changes, shifting community culture, protests, … | Cynthia Kaufman | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  NEW! AfterwordFrom: Still Hopeful |
In the Afterword Barlow reflects on the process of making this book. The chapter discusses topics including reflections on the exploitation of natural resources for profit, violence and … | Maude Barlow | 3 | 2022 | $0.30 Add |
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From  Afterword |
Afterword | Maude Barlow | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
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From  AG-GAG |
- | John Sorenson | 27 | 2016 | $2.43 Add |
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From  Are Dams Really that Bad?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Barrick Gold, the University of Toronto, and the Corporate Capture of the Canadian GovernmentPart Two: Dispossession Abroad |
In Chapter 7, author Sakura Saunders presents a historical account of how Canadian civil actors have attempted to compel the Canadian government to hold Canadian mining companies to account for … | Sakura Saunders | 28 | 2022 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Beautiful ProtestFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … | Alejandro Frid | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Becoming Indigenous |
- | Linda Pannozzo | 28 | 2016 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Boxed InAnxiety in the Masses From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Anxiety and its little buddy stress are on the rise in adults and, most troubling, increasingly also in children, adolescents, and youth. We are all now consistently revving at much, much higher … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Building a Better WorldFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines ways in which the construction industry can change in order to be more sustainable. This includes more efficient construction methods and materials as well as retrofitting … | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Carbon PricingEconomists vs. the Public Interest From: The Big Stall |
Reviews competing economic theories about tackling pollution. Explains Edmund Pigou’s work on "externalities" and neo-liberal ideas. An analysis of the two major policy proposals … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Catalysts for Change |
Topics include: Greening Campuses – The Food Revolution – The Green Economy – Mainstreaming Green – Open Source – Initiatives, Confluence, Scope and Approach – … | Andrés R. Edwards | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Celebrations of Honor and RespectFrom: Common Threads |
This chapter explores developing events that are both environmentally aware and nurturing for humanity. | Sharon Kallis | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Changing the Political WeatherFrom: The End of This World |
Chapter 6 imagines a shared vision of the future by 2025 and how we will bring apart a large interconnected social movement towards a just transition. Topics discussed include tactics for … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 23 | 2023 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Chapter 5Social Impacts From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter explores the social impacts that the operation of a mine can have on communities. These impacts last throughout the operation of the mine and range from the displacement of … | Joan Kuyek | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 5Gates Gully |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown uses Gates Gully (Belamy Ravine), which cleaves through the Scarborough Bluffs, to illustrate how local history, natural heritage, art, and culture intersect … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
