Environmental Studies
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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 |
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From  NEW! Part V: Catastrophe and CollapseFrom: Cobalt |
Part V contains Chapter 16: Fire, Racial Backlash, and Epidemic, Chapter 17: The War Comes Home, and Chapter 18: The Final Battle. | Charlie Angus | 55 | 2022 | $5.50 Add |
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From  Pixie Dust and Everlasting PlayFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol and Narcotics. 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 … | Kathryn Eve | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle E – Support ResearchFrom: Building Community |
Asking the Right Questions and Separating Facts from Fiction – Research Corner – Citizen Science and Citizen Technical Advisors – Local Community-University Partnerships – … | James S. Gruber | 30 | 2020 | $3.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Q’eqchi’ People Fight Back against Hudbay Minerals, in Their Own WordsFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Formal Human Rights Violation Complaint – Testimonio: Maria Magdalena Cuc Choc, Taking Claims to Canadian Courts – Mynor Padilla, Hudbay Mineral’s Former … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Rape of the CommonsThe Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security From: Damming the Peace |
Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … | Wendy Holm | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Rebel, rebel |
After a year of accompanying V330ancouver’s Extinction Rebellion group, the author asks: is civil disobedience not only a moral choice, but also the most powerful way of shaping world … | Arno Kopecky | 41 | 2021 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Remaking the Economy, Then and NowFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 6, Klein examines the practically of fundamentally retooling our entire economy by reexamining how it has been done before during the Second World War. Klein focuses much of this … | Seth Klein | 64 | 2020 | $6.40 Add |
