Environmental Studies
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From  PostscriptFrom: Overrun |
Postscript | Andrew Reeves | 5 | 2019 | $0.50 Add |
 PowerLimits and Prospects for Human Survival |
Weaving together findings from a wide range of disciplines, Power traces how four key elements developed to give humans extraordinary power: tool making ability, language, social complexity, and … | 416 | View | ||
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From  Power and SustainabilityFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
Debra Davidson; Ineke Lock; Kierstin Hatt | 12 | 2005 | $1.20 Add | |
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From Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
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From Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  PrefaceHow This Book Came to Be From: Standing on High Ground |
Rosemary Cornell, Adrienne Robnies, and Tim Bray, discuss how this book came to be. First of their meeting while resisting the Trans Mountain Pipeline Expansion (TMX) in 2018, and the work it … | Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray | 2 | 2024 | $0.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … | Tony Clarke | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Peak Everything |
In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From  PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
Robert MacNeil | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add | |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: Human Permaculture |
Preface – The Eagle | Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Preface |
Preface | Tom Rand | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! PrefaceFrom: Saved by Science |
Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 3 | 2020 | $0.30 Add | |
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From  PrefaceFrom: A Good War |
Seth Klein | 14 | 2020 | $1.40 Add |
