Environmental Studies
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From ![]() The Corporation vs. NatureFrom: The Big Stall |
Discusses an alternative approach to dealing with climate change: abandon neo-liberal measures and shift to a zero growth economy with redistribution of existing wealth. Action requires … | Donald Gutstein | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Creation of a Global Water Justice Movement |
In this reading, the author provides a history of the Global Water Justice movement. She introduces the reader to a variety of individuals from around the world who have shaped this movement. The … | Maude Barlow | 27 | 2019 | $2.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Cult of Consumerism |
Linda Pannozzo | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add | |
![]() The Culture of NatureNorth American Landscape from Disney to the Exxon Valdez, Second Edition |
Since it was first published in 1991, few books have come close to capturing the depth and breadth of Alexander Wilson’s innovative ecocultural compendium The Culture of Nature. His work … | Alexander Wilson | 352 | 2019 | View |
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From ![]() The Death SystemFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 2 of this title entitled "Radical Transformation" outline the dramatic changes necessary to reform our civilization into one that is sustainable, and quitable. | Kevin MacKay | 42 | 2017 | $4.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Desire for LifeFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
The author discusses his scientific education, and how he felt that something was lacking in the overly mechanistic conception of life in biology. | Andreas Weber | 19 | 2016 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Dismal Arithmetic of WaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers outlines the anatomy of a water crisis, using the city of Sao Paulo Brazil as an example. He shows how limits in supply and distribution, in concert with growing … | Marq de Villiers | 12 | 2018 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Emergent AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Food production becomes exceptionally sustainable when profitability ceases to be the singular mission of the farm, and becomes instead a part of a “triple bottom line.” As important … | Gary S. Kleppel | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() The Emergent MarketFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out … | Gary S. Kleppel | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() The Enbridge Pipeline Disaster and Accidental Activism along the Kalamazoo RiverPart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 18 Sonia Grant focuses on the oil spill into the Kalamazoo River and the controversies that surrounded cleanup efforts. It discusses topics such the health impacts and gaps in … | Sonia Grant | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherThe Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything |
The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every … | Richard Heinberg | 15 | 2010 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … | Richard Heinberg | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBoomers' Last Chance? From: Peak Everything |
In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherA Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything |
Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherTalking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything |
Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() The End of the Commodities Boom and the Progressive Cycle, and the Creation of New Dependencies |
Maristella Svampa | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |














