Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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Oil’s Deep StateHow the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa |
Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? … | Kevin Taft | 256 | 2017 | View |
OverrunDispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis |
Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government … | Andrew Reeves | 387 | 2019 | View |
Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | Richard Heinberg | 416 | 2021 | View |
Radical TransformationOligarchy, Collapse, and the Crisis of Civilization |
Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization’s impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, … | Kevin MacKay | 264 | 2017 | View |
NEW! RenewalHow Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy |
Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the … | Andres R. Edwards | 210 | 2020 | View |
Resilient AgricultureCultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate |
Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious … | Laura Lengnick | 370 | 2015 | View |
NEW! Resilient Agriculture, 2nd EditionCultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate |
Real world stories from the frontlines of climate change, resilience, and the future of food. CLIMATE CHANGE PRESENTS an unprecedented challenge to food and farming in the U.S. and beyond. … | Laura Lengnick | 368 | 2022 | View |
NEW! Saved by ScienceThe Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology |
How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in … | Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 226 | 2020 | View |
Secret Life of Your MicrobiomeWhy Nature and Biodiversity are Essential to Health and Happiness |
The Secret Life of Your Microbiome presents a revolutionary new paradigm, backed by vast science; we’re deeply connected to the biodiversity of nature through our microbiomes — the … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 387 | 2017 | View |
NEW! Still HopefulLessons from a Lifetime of Activism |
“Canada’s best-known voice of dissent.” — CBC In this timely book, Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that … | Maude Barlow | 240 | 2022 | View |
Tar Sands ShowdownCanada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change |
Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four … | Tony Clarke | 312 | 2008 | View |
Techno-FixWhy Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment |
Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 464 | 2011 | View |
NEW! TestimonioCanadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala |
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 268 | 2021 | View |
The Big StallHow big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada |
This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … | Donald Gutstein | 304 | 2018 | View |
The Biology of WonderAliveness, Feeling, and the Metamorphosis of Science |
In The Biology of Wonder author Andreas Weber proposes a new approach to the biological sciences that puts the human back in nature. He argues that feelings and emotions, far from being … | Andreas Weber | 336 | 2016 | View |