Environmental Studies

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The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences

The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences

From: Techno-Fix

The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences postulates that there are always positive and negative effects of any technology. It is impossible for humans to … ; 15 $1.50 Add
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The Integrity Model

The Integrity Model

To Be or Not To Be as A Function of Our Values

From: About Face

The readings in the fourth section of the book covers the contemporary discourse surrounding addiction in Canada, and outlines a variety of possible paths forward for combatting addiction. ; 9 $0.90 Add
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The Large-Scale Solutions
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The Large-Scale Solutions

From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

In Chapter 4 Kaufman provides an overview of the large-scale societal changes that need to happen to build a just and sustainable world. This chapter discusses topics such as transforming the … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Last Tar Sands Pipeline
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The Last Tar Sands Pipeline

From: To Be A Water Protector

A Pipeline Runs Through It – Sandpiper Timeline – Not Minnesota Nice – Palisade: Let’s Be Good Neighbors – The Necessity Defense – Whispering Dirty Secrets: … 110 $11.00 Add
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The Late Paleocene World
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The Late Paleocene World

From: Runaway Climate

The Late Paleocene World (continental configuration and connections, narrow Atlantic basin, warm climate, no glacial ice) and Paleocene climate drivers (GHGs, ocean currents, Milankovitch cycles, … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Life Rural
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The Life Rural

Part One

From: Earthkeeping

Part One contains the sections: A Place in Time, Meditating in the Country, Robinsong, and I Miss My Barbers. Topics discussed include the Acadian culture and farming, the Acadian Expulsion, the … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Light and Dark of These Times
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The Light and Dark of These Times

PART 3

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

The author reflects on the light and dark of these times as she writes in the summer of 2021. Topics include: the sustainable food movement, Indigenous foodways, the good food movement, … 19 $1.90 Add
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The Limits of Farmer-Control

The Limits of Farmer-Control

Food Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board

From: Food Sovereignty in Canada

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The Machine That Can Die

The Machine That Can Die

From: The Biology of Wonder

In this chapter, the author explores "holistic biology," which considers both bodily and inner experiences as biological phenomena. 34 $3.40 Add
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The Mechanic and the Architect

The Mechanic and the Architect

From: The Big Stall

Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … 22 $2.20 Add
The Memory We Could Be

The Memory We Could Be

Overcoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future

Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … 338 View
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The Might of Memory

The Might of Memory

From: The Memory We Could Be

The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … 13 $1.30 Add
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The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

The Myth of Apathy with Renee Lertzman

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

What if the lack of involvement in climate change has come about because this care and concern is not expressed or acknowledged? If we presume there is a surplus of care and concern and a desire … 9 $0.90 Add
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The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

The Mighty Tool of Public Narrative

Psychic Numbing with Paul Slovic

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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 … 10 $1.00 Add