Environmental Studies

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Personal Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80 Add
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Pulling the levers of power

From Lougheed to Klein

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the transition from Peter Lougheed’s government and Ralph Klein’s arrival as premier with focus paid to the political and economic … 7 $0.70 Add
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Passing the Baton

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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Scene 7 discusses staying positive, children, climate anxiety, inaction, and hope. ; ; ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Seeing With New Eyes

From: Coming Back to Life

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We move into the next stage of the Spiral as we realize from personal experience that it is from our connectivity that our pain for the world arises. The very distress that, when we hid it, … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Boomers' Last Chance?

From: Peak Everything

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In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Future of the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

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There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Light and Dark of These Times

PART 3

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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The author reflects on the light and dark of these times as she writes in the summer of 2021. Topics include: the sustainable food movement, Indigenous foodways, the good food movement, … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter examines the provisions for cumulative effects and regional assessment under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in light of established standards and suggests actions needed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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The Sex Life of Plants

From: Lost Feast

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In this chapter Newman continues to focus on the roles of bees, however, this time she explore their role in pollination, crop survival, and the dangers of decline and loss of bee populations … 23 $2.30 Add
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The Slow Money

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates … 6 $0.60 Add
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Triumph of the Sun

The Mother of All Disruptions

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores the disruptive potential of solar power to completely transform the way that we produce and use electricity as a society. ; ; ; 47 $4.70 Add
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Water Export

The Site C End-Game

From: Damming the Peace

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Investigative journalist Joyce Nelson links the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley to continental water-sharing plans. Her analysis is that the Site C dam is being … 15 $1.50 Add
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You Are Never Alone

From: About Face

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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 … 6 $0.60 Add
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ᑭᐦᒋ ᐱᑭᐢᑫᐧᐃᐧᐣ: Kihci Pikiskwewin—Speaking the Truth

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 11 Crystal Lameman focuses on the fight for the rights of Mother Earth and the rights of nature. 9 $0.90 Add
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A Possible Future: The World We Can Win

From: The Memory We Could Be

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From a climatic perspective, our transformation requires two axes: a massive reduction of emissions and a massive reduction of injustice. We must diminish vulnerabilities, reduce the drivers of … 23 $2.30 Add