Environmental Studies
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![]() Techno-FixWhy Technology Won't Save Us or the Environment |
Nanotechnology! Genetic engineering! Miracle Drugs! We are promised that new technological developments will magically save us from the dire consequences of the 300-year fossil-fueled binge known … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 464 | 2011 | View |
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From ![]() Technological Integration Versus Technological InterferenceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
At the onset of the i-tech phenomenon, most of us first noted surface changes. For example, what we perceived as an emergent shallowness of information, a subtle lack of depth and length of … | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Technological UtopiasWorld's Fairs and Theme Parks From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores World’s Fairs and theme parks, including Expo 67 (Montreal) and Expo 86 (Vancouver), to examine the process of technological development and its consequences on the … | Alexander Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() Technology and Localization: Trends at Play |
This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. | Bruce King | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Technology, Exploitation and FairnessFrom: Techno-Fix |
Technology, Exploitation and Fairness advances the thesis that many technologies are regrettably used for control and exploitation of both humans and the environment, leading inevitably to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 27 | 2011 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() Tell Me A Better StoryRegenerative Economics From: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the systemic changes to our economy that are necessary for a sustainable future. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 29 | 2018 | $2.90 Add |
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From ![]() Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water CrisisFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific … | Jerry Yudelson | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() Terrorism Entrepreneurs |
John Sorenson | 27 | 2016 | $2.43 Add | |
![]() NEW! TestimonioCanadian Mining in the Aftermath of Genocides in Guatemala |
What is land? A resource to be exploited? A commodity to be traded? A home to cherish? In Guatemala, a country still reeling from thirty-six years of US-backed state repression and genocides, … | Catherine Nolin; Grahame Russell | 268 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() “That’s How We See It”Trauma and Indigenous Resistance From: Damming the Peace |
Journalist Andrew MacLeod interviews respected First Nations leader Helen Knott about the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on her community, and in … | Andrew MacLeod | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Air up ThereFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
Debra Davidson; Josh Evan | 27 | 2005 | $2.70 Add | |
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From ![]() The Anthropocene and UsGrounds for the Augmented Left |
Untenable Futures: From Ecomodernism to Green Social Democracy – Embracing a Contingent Future | David Ravensbergen | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Attention EconomyFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Tuning in at the moment is no longer sufficient. The media want our attention extended, continued, and reengaged after necessary absences such as work and sleep. | Mari K Swingle | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and PowerFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Perhaps we made our biggest error in thinking of the world as made of “stuff ” to begin with. Fortunately — and paradoxically — our very search for mastery and knowledge … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 27 | 2014 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Big LieWhy and How BC Hydro Dismissed the Peace River Valley Microclimate From: Damming the Peace |
Former B.C. Environment Minister Joan Sawicki sets out her analysis that BC Hydro “overlooked” the importance of microclimate in its agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam … | Joan Sawicki | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Big ShiftFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … | Tony Clarke | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
















