Environmental Studies
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From  Going InternationalFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
This chapter explains how the author met her husband and business partner, as well as the path that led them to their work in green career development, tree planting and carbon off-set work in Africa. | Angelou Ezeilo | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  GrainsFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. These include placing a greater … | Laura Lengnick | 36 | 2015 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Human Nature or Human Ignorance?From: The Memory We Could Be |
The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
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From  Ideas & CultureFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! InterludeStein Valley |
A poem about Stein Valley. | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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From  Legal Heroin: The 1950s, 1960s and 1970sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines the division between legal and illegal heroin during 1950s-1970s. The role of law enforcement and the pharmaceutical industry are explored, as well as the Narcotic Control … | Susan C. Boyd | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Like the White Wings of AngelsFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Seven focuses on the connections Louise had been making during the Second World War while Len was away. The chapter explores Louise’s relationship with Murray and Doris Speirs, her … | Merilyn Simonds | 23 | 2022 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Looking at the Non-HumanNature Movies and TV From: The Culture of Nature |
This chapter provides a history of nature movies and television, from National Geographic to Disney to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom andincludes nine photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 42 | 2019 | $4.20 Add |
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From  Loving the WorldFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
When I think about what loving the world means to me, I feel a deep aspiration for the happiness, flourishing, and wellbeing of other people, other species, and the earth. This could be called … | Kate Davies | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! MethodsFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 41 | 2022 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Narratives of Resistance, Mobilizing, and ActivismThe Fight Against Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia |
The Fight Against Environmental Racism in Nova Scotia | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  OligarchyFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems … | Kevin MacKay | 38 | 2017 | $3.80 Add |
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From  On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Optimum PowerSustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power |
This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … | Richard Heinberg | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Overcoming the Barriers and Building More Powerful MovementsFrom: More Powerful Together |
This chapter contains the following readings: Confronting and Overcoming the External Barriers – Confronting and Overcoming the Internal Barriers – Relational Theories of Change and … | Jen Gobby | 39 | 2020 | $3.90 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksEnergy Efficiency and Renewables |
Canadians and Americans consume more energy per capita than any other nation. Environmental impacts of our consumptive lifestyles include ozone layer depletion, acid rain, smog, potential climate … | Marc Roseland | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
