Environmental Studies
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From ![]() Of Systems and ProcessFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
We want to teach children not only how to use technologies, but how to choose technologies, and how to make them. We also want to teach them the caveats including biological hijacking and … | Mari K Swingle | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Offering and Tending to the Land |
This chapter describes the reciprocal relationship Indigenous cultures have traditionally cultivated with the land, presenting such relationships as a model for ecological protection and restoration. | Osprey Orielle Lake | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() Oil Sands Binges, RebrandsFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the relationship between the oil industry and the Alberta government. The industry’s approach shifted to accepting a cap on carbon emissions which permitted ongoing operations and … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
![]() Oil’s Deep StateHow the petroleum industry undermines democracy and stops action on global warming — in Alberta, and in Ottawa |
Why have democratic governments failed to take serious steps to reduce carbon emissions despite dire warnings and compelling evidence of the profound and growing threat posed by global warming? … | 256 | View | ||
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From ![]() Old WivesFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 4 | 2023 | $0.40 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 ![]() NEW! Omaa Akiing: Here On EarthFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
Winter Count – How to Be Better Ancestors – The Holy Land Is Here – The Month You Remember Me | Winona LaDuke | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 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 ![]() On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … | Richard Heinberg | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts(post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything |
Will industrial production survive in the post-hydrocarbon era? The answer will of course depend on how much energy humans will have at their disposal. The total amount, as well as the per capita … | Richard Heinberg | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() On the Frontiers of CapitalNuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores the impact of the atomic age on the environment and landscape. The chapter includes 17 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 39 | 2019 | $3.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton GasPart One: Dispossession at Home |
In Chapter 5, author Ingrid Waldron examines the success of the grassroots activism of the Mi’kmaq grandmothers of the Sipekne’katik First Nation near Shubenacadie, Nova Scotia who … | Ingrid Waldron | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Once upon a time in deutschland |
This chapter details the author’s German heritage and Germany’s postwar journey of coming to terms with its sins; the point is to see what other nations might learn about dealing with … | Arno Kopecky | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() One PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk? Where are … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() One Size Doesn’t Fit All for Addiction TreatmentFrom: About Face |
The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. | Kathryn Dalton | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
















