Environmental Studies

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Rethinking Waste

Rethinking Waste

From: There's Something in the Water

Mapping Racial Geographies of Violence on the Colonial Landscape 13 $1.30 Add
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Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism
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Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change Denialism

PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. 22 $2.20 Add
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Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title

Tsilhqot’in Case and Crown Title

From: The Reconciliation Manifesto

Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel examines the Tsilhqot’in court case of 2014 to outline Canada’s policy on Aboriginal vs. Crown title and how the government responded to Supreme … 4 $0.40 Add
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Rights of Nature
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Rights of Nature

A Systemic Solution

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In this chapter, Lake describes the Rights of Nature movement, presenting it as the most effective way to address dysfunctional environmental, legal, colonial, and economic frameworks. 36 $3.60 Add
Ring of Fire

Ring of Fire

High-Stakes Mining in Lowlands Wilderness

In this colorful tale, Virginia Heffernan draws on her bush and newsroom experiences to illustrate the complexities of resource development at a time when Indigenous rights are becoming enshrined … 220 View
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Rio to Kyoto

Rio to Kyoto

The Road Not Taken

From: The Big Stall

Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. 27 $2.70 Add
Runaway Climate
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Runaway Climate

What the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe

56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway … 256 View
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Running on empty

Running on empty

Climate and environment

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of … 20 $2.00 Add
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Sacrificial Lives

Sacrificial Lives

From: There's Something in the Water

New Environmental Racism Gets Under the Skin 19 $1.90 Add
Saved by Science
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Saved by Science

The Hope and Promise of Synthetic Biology

How can we accelerate the development of vaccines? How do we feed three billion people when 12 million died of hunger in 2019? Does synthetic biology hold the answer? With all the advances in … 226 View
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Saved From Drowning in a Video Game Addiction

Saved From Drowning in a Video Game Addiction

From: About Face

The readings in the second section of the book discuss other forms of addictions that are not narcotics based. These include sex, video games, gambling and social media. The readings in this … 5 $0.50 Add
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Saving Ecosystems

Saving Ecosystems

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … 16 $1.60 Add
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Savoring the Biosphere

Savoring the Biosphere

From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome

Microbes are at the origins of all life on our planet, silent partners to the evolution of every form of life and long, long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. We are only now learning of … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Scaling Up - How Local Farms Will Feed America

Scaling Up – How Local Farms Will Feed America

From: Emergent Agriculture

The shifting agricultural paradigm requires that every region of the country produce the diversity of products that it is capable of producing — that monoculture and exclusive production … 15 $1.50 Add