Environmental Studies
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From  Shrinking Body shrinking VoiceOne Person’s Journey through Anorexia From: About Face |
The readings in the third section of the book discuss food related mental illnesses including body dysmorphia and eating disorders. The readings in this section include firsthand accounts from … | Angela Rinaldis | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From  SiberpooFrom: The Whole Animal |
129 | Corinna Chong | 10 | 2023 | $1.00 Add |
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From  NEW! sihtoskâtowinPulling Together for a Just Transition From: The End of This World |
Chapter 7 lays out how to build a new political alignment capable of enacting a just transition. Topics discussed include building coordinated collective power, strategic elections and political … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall? |
In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … | Ann Edminster | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Sliding Plates and Colliding Continents |
In this chapter, Earle explores the role of plate techtonics in the Earth’s climate. Key factors include albedo, continent drift, volcanism, and the formation of mountain ranges. | Steven Earle | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsLike Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich |
Polarization is dangerous because it interrupts lines of communicationand leads to gridlock. It stops us from tackling urgent problems because without consensus we cannot take effective action. … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsThe Advocacy Trap with Roger Conner |
When we look at the miserable state of public discourse today and how we are polluting the public square, it’s plain to see that many people believe the problem derives from evil on … | James Hoggan | 9 | 2016 | $0.90 Add |
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From Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsMistakes Were Made (But Not By Me) with Carol Tavris |
The brain is designed with blind spots, optical and psychological, and one of its cleverest tricks is to confer on us the comforting delusion that we, personally, do not have any. In a sense, … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Social Democracy and a Green New DealPART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … | Aaron Saad | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Social UpheavalFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … | Tony Clarke | 39 | 2008 | $3.90 Add |
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From  SocializationChild's Play From: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter, I will start a discussion on how, in the name of discipline, safety, and humaneness, i-tech has found yet another niche. How, for better or for worse, i-tech is now the principal … | Mari K Swingle | 21 | 2019 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Socioenvironmental Conflicts and Valuation Languages |
Maristella Svampa | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add | |
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From  Soft-Path SolutionsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers continues to discuss efficiency and suggests that we should focus on increasing that instead of trying to redistribute and increase our water supply. | Marq de Villiers | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Space, the Canadian Frontier?Landscape, Identity, and Power From: Consuming Sustainability |
Jeff Masuda; Jeji Varghese | 27 | 2005 | $2.70 Add | |
 Standing on High GroundCivil Disobedience on Burnaby Mountain |
What am I doing to address the climate crisis? How far will I go to defend the earth? What price am I willing to pay for climate justice? Since 2014, hundreds of people have been arrested while … | Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray | 332 | 2024 | View |
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From  The Long-Term Approach |
Indigenous activist Arthur Manuel looks at how government decisions only take into account short term economic benefits rather than long term environmental concerns and how this differs from … | Arthur Manuel | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |
