Environmental Studies

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From NEW! Chapter 9 L'Amoreaux North Park and Passmore Forest From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests View James Lorimer and Company	Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown uses L’Amoreaux North Park and Passmore Forest, located in Toronto’s Highland Creek watershed, to illustrate how the growth of the city has impacted both …	Jason Ramsay-Brown	6	2020	$0.60 Add
From Civil Society Leadership From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 10, Klein shifts his focus from the political sphere to that of role of civil society primarily through social movements to bring change and mobilize the masses. Focusing on issues of …	Seth Klein	16	2020	$1.60 Add
From Climate Change From: Back to the Well View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World Goose Lane Editions	In this chapter, de Villiers explores the impacts of climate change on our global water supply, including who will be most affected and to what degree.	Marq de Villiers	15	2018	$1.50 Add
From NEW! Climate Hyprocrites Unite! From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now View New Society Publishers	In this chapter Grover ties together the themes of the book, and suggests how climate activists can best accomplish their goals.	Sami Grover	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From Conclusion Pandora's Gift From: Intrinsic Hope View New Society Publishers	Intrinsic hope is a choice we can each make every moment of our lives. We can’t choose the circumstances of our birth and we may not have much choice about the circumstances of our death, …	Kate Davies	5	2018	$0.50 Add
From NEW! Conclusion Worlds at Stake From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	The Conclusion offers the author Saad’s final thoughts on where we might find ourselves in the struggle against climate change and what role or roles we may play in the fight against it.	Aaron Saad	6	2022	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Dangerous opportunities From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	The author describes world leaders and thinkers who posit: never let a good crisis go to waste. He continues: conflict is an essential driver of human progress, so long as it is managed …	Arno Kopecky	14	2021	$1.40 Add
From Designing Group Projects From: Common Threads View New Society Publishers	When I am building a project I try to have entry points for all three (head, heart, hand) so that people can enter from whichever is their comfort zone: • Someone comes into the project …	Sharon Kallis	12	2014	$1.20 Add
From Footprint in Architecture and City Planning BedZED, Masdar City, and Peter Seidel From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	Architectural examples that have been informed by this thinking	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	12	2019	$1.20 Add
From Growing a Finer Future From: A Finer Future View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores the future of sustainable agriculture and the ways that we can ensure everyone has enough to eat.	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	28	2018	$2.80 Add
From Honey and Roses From: Lost Feast View ECW Press	In this chapter Newman explores the history of honey and mead and how it has maintained a presence and connection to society for millennia’s.	Lenore Newman	15	2019	$1.50 Add
From Honoring Our Pain for the World From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked, “What do we most need to do to save our world?” His questioners probably expected him to identify the best strategies to pursue, but Thich Nhat …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	30	2014	$3.00 Add
From Index From: Thirty Years of Failure View Fernwood Publishing	-	Robert MacNeil	6	2019	$0.60 Add
From Learning the Ropes and Raising a Stink From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter talks about the activism of farmer Allan Gardiner and the election of a new mayor in Greater Napanee—David Remington. Finally, it looks at effects of the expansion on the …	Poh-Gek Forkert	8	2017	$0.80 Add
From New Beginnings: Tar Sands Prospecting Abroad Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	In Chapter 9 MacDonald Stainsby explores the rise of “extreme” fossil energy extraction such as for oil shale and fracking for “tight” oil and natural gas. The chapter …	MacDonald Stainsby	11	2014	$1.10 Add
From Not Today, But Someday, I Will Break Free From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Morphine. 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 in these …	Amanda Murphy	3	2019	$0.30 Add