Environmental Studies
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From NEW! Chapter 9L'Amoreaux North Park and Passmore Forest |
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 LeadershipFrom: A Good War |
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 ChangeFrom: Back to the Well |
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! |
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 ConclusionPandora's Gift From: Intrinsic Hope |
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! ConclusionWorlds at Stake From: Worlds at Stake |
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 |
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 ProjectsFrom: Common Threads |
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 PlanningBedZED, Masdar City, and Peter Seidel From: Ecological Footprint |
Architectural examples that have been informed by this thinking | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Growing a Finer FutureFrom: A Finer Future |
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 RosesFrom: Lost Feast |
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 WorldFrom: Coming Back to Life |
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 IndexFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 6 | 2019 | $0.60 Add |
From Learning the Ropes and Raising a StinkFrom: Fighting Dirty |
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 AbroadPart I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
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 FreeFrom: About Face |
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 |