Environmental Studies
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From  Perserving for the Long HaulFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. … | Kate Davies | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Personal Well-BeingFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness | Mark Anielski | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sandsFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … | Kevin Taft | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Petro-Capitalism and the Tar SandsPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil … | Angela V. Carter | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
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From Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental JusticePart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … | Toban Black | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Physician Addiction in CanadaStakeholders, Services and Determinants 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. | Derek Puddester | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Picture CreditsFrom: The Culture of Nature |
Picture credits | Alexander Wilson | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
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From  NEW! Pigeon PoliticsFrom: Being and Swine |
In this chapter, philosopher Fahim Amir discusses the complex relationship between human society and pigeons. The chapter includes a brief overview of the history of pigeons in urban spaces and … | Corvin Russell; Fahim Amir; Geoffrey C. Howes | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
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From Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle IslandPart III: Future Prospects From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
Chapter 23 examines resistance to pipelines across Turtle island (Canada), discussing Indigenous resistance and the anti-pipeline movement, decolonization, the resurgence of Indigenous … | Sâkihitowin Awâsis | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From Pixie Dust and Everlasting PlayFrom: About Face |
On Alcohol and Narcotics. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors … | Kathryn Eve | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Placemaking for CommunityFrom: Common Threads |
A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … | Sharon Kallis | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens; Wil Srubar | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Political InstitutionsFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
Robert MacNeil | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add | |
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From  Politics of Fear |
John Sorenson | 25 | 2016 | $2.25 Add | |
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From  Porcelain LegsFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 18 | 2023 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Portents and prophecies |
In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight … | Arno Kopecky | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
