Environmental Studies
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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 |
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From  What is the Work that Reconnects?From: Coming Back to Life |
As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From  What We Don’t Know About FrackingFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores the risks and unknowns surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. He explores whether the economic potential is real and whether it is … | Marq de Villiers | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Where to From Here? Trudeau’s Climate Policy & BeyondFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Winners and LosersStrategies for Countries to Consider From: Ecological Footprint |
If we take resource security seriously, how does it shift development strategies? How will our ability to succeed shift in a world of climate change and resource constraints? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! 7. The Energy Turnaround“Electrifying Everything” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 7 focuses on energy consumption and a clean energy future, discussing clean power technologies, fairness of pushing expensive clean energy, fossil fuel industry’s power, the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  A Mountain of GarbageFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter traces developments in this case, and the work of citizens to fight against the landfill expansion. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  A Plague of Humans |
In this chapter Earle turns to the role of humanity in changing our planet’s climate. Important forces include agriculture, fossil fuel consumption, and total population. | Steven Earle | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! A Strong Wall around MeFrom: Woman, Watching |
Chapter Nine looks at the remaking of Louise and Len’s life and relationship after the war. The chapter discusses the 1946 publication of The Loghouse Nest, Len finding work, and … | Merilyn Simonds | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, Dams and Fracking From: Damming the Peace |
Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Another End of the World is Possible |
In this chapter, Boyd explains why he tackles the climate crisis with " tragic optimism and a pair of not-at-all-rosy “can-do pessimism” goggles." | Andrew Boyd | 9 | 2023 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Apocalypse |
Describes the Lac-Mégantic disaster in detail: from the runaway train’s final moments before derailment to the inferno that killed forty-seven people, spilled six million litres of … | Bruce Campbell | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
