Environmental Studies
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From  Seven: Saving a Prehistoric FishFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey discusses the … | Laura Trethewey | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! sihtoskâtowinPulling Together for a Just Transition From: The End of This World |
Chapter 7 lays out how to build a new political alignment capable of enacting a just transition. Topics discussed include building coordinated collective power, strategic elections and political … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – ForgettingPrompts: Rembering to Act |
Numerous actions that promote sustainability are susceptible to the most human of traits: forgetting. Fortunately, “prompts” are effective in reminding people to engage in sustainable … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 12 | 2011 | $0.12 Add |
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From  NEW! Swimming Upstream |
This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … | Sami Grover | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Technological UtopiasWorld's Fairs and Theme Parks From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores World’s Fairs and theme parks, including Expo 67 (Montreal) and Expo 86 (Vancouver), to examine the process of technological development and its consequences on the … | Alexander Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
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From  The Big LieWhy and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace |
Former B.C. Environment Minister Joan Sawicki sets out her analysis that BC Hydro “overlooked” the importance of microclimate in its agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam … | Joan Sawicki | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  The Death SystemFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 2 of this title entitled "Radical Transformation" outline the dramatic changes necessary to reform our civilization into one that is sustainable, and quitable. | Kevin MacKay | 42 | 2017 | $4.20 Add |
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From  The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies |
- | Maristella Svampa | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  The First World War and the Twenties, 1911–1929 |
Describes Ottawa’s efforts to supersede provincial powers especially concerning natural resources from 1911-1929. | Ed Whitcomb | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Forest IndustryFrom: Climate@Work |
- | John Holmes | 17 | 2013 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Pear KingFrom: Lost Feast |
In this chapter Newman reflects on the history of her favorite fruit, the pear. She explores the act of domestication, the shift from small scale local production and the evolution to the … | Lenore Newman | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient SystemsPART 2 |
This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as … | Laura Lengnick | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
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From  The Road Up Ahead |
- | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From  To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
