Environmental Studies

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A Fine and Baffling Interplay

From: Woman, Watching

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Chapter Fifteen explores more of Louise’s challenges later in life. This chapter discusses the move away from amateur ornithology and its professionalization, her continuation of publishing … 21 $2.10 Add
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About the Authors

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

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Chapter 13

The Leslie Street Spit and Tommy Thompson Park

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

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Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the novel ecosystem of Toronto’s Leslie Street Spit (Tommy Thompson Park), a five-hundred-hectare constructed peninsula built from decommissioned … 8 $0.80 Add
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Concluding thoughts

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Implementing a community-based social marketing strategy requires careful preliminary research, strategy development, piloting, implementation and evaluation. However, this attention to detail is … 7 $0.70 Add
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Confront the Myth of Growth

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter debunks the myth that indefinite growth is necessary for our economy to sustain itself. ; ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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Dealing with PTSD, Anxiety, Chronic Pain and Harm Reduction

From: About Face

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On 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 in these … 6 $0.60 Add
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Ecological Morals as Mutuality in Beauty

From: The Biology of Wonder

In the concluding chapter, Weber proposes a series of biocentric values. 15 $1.50 Add
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Environmental Contradiction

The Need for an Eco-Socialist Paradigm on the Brazillian Left

From: Challenging the Right, Augmenting the Left

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The Brazilian Pink Tide’s Ecological Record – The Radical Left’s Own Environmental Contradictions – The Brazilian Left Needs a New Paradigm – Grassroots Resistance … 11 $1.10 Add
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The COVID-19 Pandemic and How a Recognized Emergency makes the Impossible Possible

From: A Good War

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In the Epilogue, Klein shares his own reflections on the pandemic and the lessons we can learn from it regarding climate action and mobilization. 8 $0.80 Add
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Is Site C Really Past “The Point of No Return”?

From: Damming the Peace

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What was meant by former B.C. premier Christy Clark’s promise to bring the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley to the “point of no return,” … 14 $1.40 Add
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Judiciously use REWARDS

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter focuses on the risk Reward issue. By focusing on how to create rewards for certain behaviours or by increasing the size or visibility of existing rewards, you can boost your … ; ; ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Learning Into the Future

Power and Love with Adam Kahane

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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Adam Kahane’s work has shown him it is increasingly vital for people to work together, not just with friends and colleagues, but also with strangers and opponents, even enemies, in order to … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Lessons and Challenges

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … 6 $0.60 Add
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Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

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In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … 12 $1.20 Add