Environmental Studies
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From  Environmental Reporting and Information SourcesFrom: Environmental Law, 5/e |
Discusses the challenge of climate change and the policy and legal responses that Canada can take. This chapter touches upon the causes and consequences of climate change, federal climate change … | Jamie Benidickson | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Gulf Coast Resistance and the Southern Leg of the Keystone XL PipelinePart II: Communities and Resistance From: A Line in the Tar Sands |
In Chapter 17 the authors examine the scope and breadth of resistance across the Gulf Region of the United States, including the Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services, Tar Sands Blockade, … | Cherri Foytlin; Yudith Nieto | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Impact Assessment for Projects on Federal Lands and Outside CanadaThe “Federal Projects” Process |
This chapter explores the process set out in the Assessment Act (IAA) for the assessment of projects on federal lands and projects outside Canada; how this process differs from the rest of the … | Jamie Kneen | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Rewiring the Brain for AddictionFrom: Fighting For Space |
Marc Lewis, the author of The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease, visits Downtown Eastside and lays out an argument for addiction as a learned habit. Lewis argues that the choice … | Travis Lupick | 19 | 2017 | $0.19 Add |
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From  The Mighty Tool of Public NarrativePsychic Numbing with Paul Slovic |
When numbers soar, our consistency with basic values and concerns collapses. Most people are caring and highly responsive when they hear of an individual’s desperate plight, yet are numbly … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Appendix CEthics and Declarations of Rights From: Coming Back to Life |
Here are documents and web links of major initiatives for the Great Turning that are close to Joanna’s and Molly’s hearts, having been the focus of our activism for many years and … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From  Breaking the TranceFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
Media feeds were no longer resembling information distribution (fun or otherwise) they were starting to sound a lot like propaganda. Everything was now far too sweet to taste like truth and now … | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Chapter 18International Solidarity Work From: Unearthing Justice |
This chapter looks at the ways in which Canadians are able to act in solidarity with communities around the world that are impacted by mining operations. It begins with the case study of El … | Joan Kuyek | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 18Crothers Woods and Beechwood Wetland |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the section of the Don River watershed where visitors will discover Crothers Woods, Beechwood Wetland, Cottonwood Flats, and Sun Valley. He discusses how … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 7 | 2020 | $0.70 Add |
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From  JessicaFrom: 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 … | Kirsten Emmott | 4 | 2019 | $0.40 Add |
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From  Judgment Days: The Environmental Review TribunalFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter focuses on the environmental review tribunal and its actions, testing after the dump’s closure,legal fights, the author’s research activities and findings, the final … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 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 Vancouver AgreementFrom: Fighting For Space |
This chapter highlights the formation Vancouver Caucus, comprising of Mayor Philip Owen, Jenny Kwan and Dr Hedy Fry, and the subsequent signing of the Vancouver Agreement. The agreement about a … | Travis Lupick | 27 | 2017 | $0.54 Add |
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From NEW! Transparency and Accountability in Decision MakingDoes the Impact Assessment Act Support Credible Decision Making? |
This chapter considers the central decision points the Assessment Act (IAA) determines the extent to which the Act codifies mechanisms to provide for transparency and accountability in decisions. … | Jason Unger | 31 | 2021 | $3.10 Add |
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From Chapter 19Taking on the Company and its Investors From: Unearthing Justice |
One of the most effective ways to inflluence a the way a company operates is to identify and engage with its shareholders. This chapter explores ways for organizers to do this. | Joan Kuyek | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From NEW! Chapter 19Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve |
Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown describes the Todmorden Mills Wildflower Preserve, "one of the most wonderful fifteen minute hikes Toronto has to offer." Following intense human use over … | Jason Ramsay-Brown | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
