Environmental Studies
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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 |
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From Opioid AddictionProactively Addressing Legal Concerns With Child Custody From: 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. | David Frenkel; Lisa Gelman | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Optimum PowerSustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power |
This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … | Richard Heinberg | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
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From  OriginsFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Other Effects of Tobacco Products/ Nicotine |
Chapter Eight includes the following topics: Depression and Anxiety – Fires/Burns – Infectious Diseases – Injuries and Motor Vehicle Accident Collisions – Miscellaneous … | James G. Wigmore | 92 | 2023 | $9.20 Add |
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From Other Nicotine Delivery Systems |
Chapter Six includes the following topics: Heated Tobacco Products (Heat not Burn (IQOS)) – Cigars/Cigarillos/Little Cigars – Pipes/Chillums – Hookahs/Water Pipes – … | James G. Wigmore | 126 | 2023 | $12.60 Add |
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From  Our Drug Policy Is Killing People: Decriminalizing and Legalizing Heroin UseFrom: Heroin |
This chapter explores the process to decriminalize and legalize Heroin. The social movements for drug policy and drug law reform are discussed. | Susan C. Boyd | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
