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From Movement Building From: Getting to Zero View James Lorimer and Company	Discusses how a major, well organized social movement demanding climate justice is required for a meaningful response from corporations and government. Identifies how this can be achieved and …	Tony Clarke	25	2018	$2.50 Add
From NEW! Nothing Happens Haphazardly From: Woman, Watching View ECW Press	Chapter Eight explores Louise’s journey writing her "Little Bird Book." The chapter follows the writing and publishing of her first book and Len’s homecoming from the war.	Merilyn Simonds	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Atmospheric Change and Air Quality From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter …	Marc Roseland	11	2012	$1.10 Add
From NEW! Part VI: Cobalt Goes Global From: Cobalt View House of Anansi Press	Part VI contains Chapter 19: Exporting Hinterland, Chapter 20: The Family Business, and Chapter 21: The Return to Cobalt.	Charlie Angus	29	2022	$2.90 Add
From NEW! Principle F – Delegate and Empower From: Building Community View New Society Publishers	Devolution and Empowerment – Research Corner – Case Study: Community-Led Sustainable Development in Northern Ghana – Case Study: Climate Change and the Minnehaha Creek …	James S. Gruber	20	2020	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Project Impact Assessments Triggering and Coverage From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter focuses on two questions. First: how effectively are the purposes of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) likely to be met given the triggering process and coverage of projects under the …	Stephen Hazell	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Resistance Movement From: Tar Sands Showdown View James Lorimer and Company	Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various …	Tony Clarke	35	2008	$3.50 Add
From NEW! Scene 4 The Amazon From: What You Won’t Do For Love View Coach House Books	Scene 4 focuses on David and Tara’s work in the Amazon. It discusses climate, the developing world, Indigenous advocacy, Canada’s role in climate change, government, and advocacy.	David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis	10	2022	$1.00 Add
From Seven: Saving a Prehistoric Fish From: The Imperilled Ocean View Goose Lane Editions	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
From NEW! sihtoskâtowin Pulling Together for a Just Transition From: The End of This World View Between The Lines	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
From Step 3: Developing Strategies – Forgetting Prompts: Rembering to Act From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior View New Society Publishers	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
From NEW! Swimming Upstream From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now View New Society Publishers	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
From Technological Utopias World's Fairs and Theme Parks From: The Culture of Nature View Between The Lines	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
From The Big Lie Why and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	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
From The Death System From: Radical Transformation View Between The Lines	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
From The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies From: Development in Latin America View Fernwood Publishing	-	Maristella Svampa	12	2019	$1.20 Add