Environmental Studies

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What Then Must We Do?

What Then Must We Do?

From: The Memory We Could Be

Many of us stumble at the very first question: what can I do? But our failure to find a straightforward answer lies partly in our misdirected question: there isn’t much that individuals … 13 $1.30 Add
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What We Are Up Against
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What We Are Up Against

Science and Politics

From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

In Chapter 1, Kaufman provides an overview of the scientific and political challenges climate activists face in the fight for climate justice. The chapter discusses topics including the … 16 $1.60 Add
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What We Don’t Know About Fracking

What We Don’t Know About Fracking

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers explores the risks and unknowns surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. He explores whether the economic potential is real and whether it is … 19 $1.90 Add
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What We're Up Against

What We’re Up Against

The New Climate Denialism in Canada

From: A Good War

In Chapter 2, Klein examines the present day political, economic, and cultural barriers we face in our efforts to begin to meaningfully fight climate change and climate emergences. The chapter … 32 $3.20 Add
What You Won’t Do For Love
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What You Won’t Do For Love

A Conversation

What if we could love the planet as much as we love one another? "Warm, wise, and overflowing with generosity, this is a love story so epic it embraces all of creation. Yet another reminder … ; ; ; 106 View
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When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern Technology

When Things Bite Back: Some Unintended Consequences of Modern Technology

From: Techno-Fix

When Things Bite Back explores, in depth, some of the many unintended environmental and social consequences of modern technologies, ranging from environmental pollution, global warming, species … ; 38 $3.80 Add
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Where Do I Start

Where Do I Start

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 … 4 $0.40 Add
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Where Does Agroecological Food Come From

Where Does Agroecological Food Come From

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

This chapter begins by considering food produced by the industrial food system that has been called “food from nowhere”. In contrast, agroecological food comes from “somewhere” — it is … 38 $3.80 Add
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Where to From Here? Trudeau's Climate Policy & Beyond

Where to From Here? Trudeau’s Climate Policy & Beyond

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Where Will Everyone Go?
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Where Will Everyone Go?

From: Runaway Climate

Where Will Everyone Go?: Current situation and what the future holds. 11 $1.10 Add
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Who Owns Water?

Who Owns Water?

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers discusses international law surrounding water use as well as legislation passed on a national level. 15 $1.50 Add
Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Taking Water Protection into Public Hands

The Blue Communities Project is dedicated to three primary things: that access to clean, drinkable water is a basic human right; that municipal and community water will be held in public hands; … 161 View
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Why Impermanence Matters

Why Impermanence Matters

From: Common Threads

Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … 14 $1.40 Add
Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems

Wigmore on Nicotine and its Drug Delivery Systems

The Medicolegal Aspects of Our Most Addictive and Dangerous Legal Drug

Wigmore on Nicotine is the third book in the author’s trilogy of the forensic toxicology and medicolegal aspects of alcohol, cannabis, and now nicotine. Maintaining the same high standards … 882 View
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Wild Kin
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Wild Kin

Part Three

From: Earthkeeping

Part Three contains the sections: The Lovely Duckling, Turtle Tale, So Excellent a Fish: Capelin, Gift from the Sky, God’s Dead Dog & Other Roadkills, Caribou Caper, COVID-19 Moment, and … 43 $4.30 Add
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Will Canada’s Future Be Dammed? Site C Could Be the Tip of the Iceberg

Will Canada’s Future Be Dammed? Site C Could Be the Tip of the Iceberg

From: Damming the Peace

David Schindler, one of the world’s foremost water ecologists, explains the role of major dams, like Site C in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, in Canada’s climate change strategy. He … 11 $1.10 Add