Environmental Studies

Showing 1121–1136 of 1414 results

Title & Subtitle Abstract Contributors Pages Year Purchase
From
Taking it Day By Day

Taking it Day By Day

From: About Face

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 … 3 $0.30 Add
From
Taking Stock of Canada's Ecosystems

Taking Stock of Canada’s Ecosystems

From: About Canada: The Environment

23 $2.30 Add
From
Taking Stock of Where We Are At and What Stands in Our Way
NEW!

Taking Stock of Where We Are At and What Stands in Our Way

From: More Powerful Together

This chapter contains the following readings: What’s Working and What’s Not Working in Our Movements – The Barriers to Decolonizing and Decarbonizing Canada – Note 39 $3.90 Add
From
Tar Sands, Extreme Energy, and the Future of the Climate Movement

Tar Sands, Extreme Energy, and the Future of the Climate Movement

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 28 Brian Tokar explores lessons from the past and how this can be used in fighting the tar sands, discussing topics including the “No Nukes” movement in North America, … 11 $1.10 Add
Tar Sands Showdown

Tar Sands Showdown

Canada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change

Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four … 312 View
From
Techniques

Techniques

From: Common Threads

As you begin to work with natural fibers you will realize how much of the knowledge is transferable from one fiber to another. As you pick up a new plant, first try what you already know. … 51 $5.10 Add
Techno-Fix

Techno-Fix

Why 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 … ; 464 View
From
Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference

Technological Integration Versus Technological Interference

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
From
Technological Utopias

Technological Utopias

World'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 … 38 $3.80 Add
From
Technology and Localization: Trends at Play

Technology and Localization: Trends at Play

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. 9 $0.90 Add
From
Technology, Exploitation and Fairness

Technology, Exploitation and Fairness

From: 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 … ; 27 $2.70 Add
From
Tell Me A Better Story

Tell Me A Better Story

Regenerative Economics

From: A Finer Future

This chapter outlines the systemic changes to our economy that are necessary for a sustainable future. ; ; ; 29 $2.90 Add
From
Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis

From: 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 … 20 $2.00 Add
Testimonio
NEW!

Testimonio

Canadian 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, … ; 268 View