Environmental Studies
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Responding to Chinese Investments in the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 8 Harjap Grewal focuses on the Canadian responses to Chinese investments in the tar sands, exploring topics including international trade agreements, xenophobia and the history of … | Harjap Grewal | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
From NEW! Scene 5Feminism + The Economy |
Scene 5 explores the role of feminism. Discussing unpaid labour, GDP, economic growth, and more. | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 4 | 2022 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! Self-Care |
In Chapter 8 Kaufman concludes the book by reflecting on the importance of maintaining your own mental health and happiness in the face of the climate crisis. The chapter discusses topics such as … | Cynthia Kaufman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From Step 3: Developing Strategies – IncentivesIncentives: Enhancing Motivation to Act |
Financial incentives can provide the motivation for individuals to perform an activity that they already engage in more effectively, such as recycling, or to begin an activity that they otherwise … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 12 | 2011 | $0.12 Add |
From TechniquesFrom: Common Threads |
As you begin to work with natural fibers you will realize how much of the knowledge is transferable from one fiber to another. As you pick up a new plant, first try what you already know. … | Sharon Kallis | 51 | 2014 | $5.10 Add |
From Technology and Localization: Trends at Play |
This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. | Bruce King | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
From NEW! The Climate MovementPART 4: To Shape a Coming World From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 10 focuses on the current state of the climate movement, providing a survey of its most prominent leaders, their tactics, and action they are bringing about. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
From The Community Asset Well-Being FundFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation | Mark Anielski | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
From The Emergent MarketFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out … | Gary S. Kleppel | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherThe Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything |
The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every … | Richard Heinberg | 15 | 2010 | $1.50 Add |
From The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
From The Narrowing of MindsFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. … | Mari K Swingle | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
From The Petroleum Game: New RealitiesFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Discusses the patterns of Western military and economic interventions during the twenty-first century, and petroleum’s largely hidden role in world politics. US pressures have influenced … | John Foster | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
From The Poverty of Weath: Economics and EcologyFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From The Principle of BeautyFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author provides a critique of the Darwinian notion of "nature as a survival machine." | Andreas Weber | 32 | 2016 | $3.20 Add |
From The Scrambled ParadiseFrom: Lost Feast |
In this chapter Newman describes her time travelling through Hawaii and the biodiversity she witnessed there. Newman describes how after centuries of plant and animal invasions, both purposefully … | Lenore Newman | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |