Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Of Systems and Process From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View New Society Publishers	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
From NEW! Offering and Tending to the Land From: The Story is in Our Bones View New Society Publishers	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
From Oil Sands Binges, Rebrands From: The Big Stall View James Lorimer and Company	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 State How 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
From Old Wives From: The Whole Animal View Arsenal Pulp Press	129	Corinna Chong	4	2023	$0.40 Add
From Oligarchy From: Radical Transformation View Between The Lines	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
From NEW! Omaa Akiing: Here On Earth From: To Be A Water Protector View Fernwood Publishing	Winter Count – How to Be Better Ancestors – The Holy Land Is Here – The Month You Remember Me	Winona LaDuke	17	2020	$1.70 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Five Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Population, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Fifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts (post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From On the Frontiers of Capital Nuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures From: The Culture of Nature View Between The Lines	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
From NEW! On the Shubenacadie River: The Grassroots Grandmothers and the Fight against Alton Gas Part One: Dispossession at Home From: Capitalism and Dispossession View Fernwood Publishing	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
From NEW! Once upon a time in deutschland From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	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
From One Planet Ecological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	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
From One Size Doesn’t Fit All for Addiction Treatment From: About Face View Breakwater Books	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