Pollution
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From ![]() Chapter 8Transportation of Radioactive Materials |
This chapter includes the following sections: Nightmare in the Emergency Room – Packaging Radioactive Material – Transport Regulations – Transport – Risks and Concerns | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Chapter 9Radiation in War |
This chapter includes the following sections: Nuclear Roulette: Three Case Studies – Radiation at Sea – “Depleted Uranium” – Nuclear Weapons – Nuclear War … | Dale Dewar; Florian Oelck | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() ChinaA New Model of Development From: Ecological Footprint |
What’s the trajectory for China? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() Communicate, Communicate . . .From: Fighting Dirty |
The story of Jeff Whan, retired IBM executive and anti-dump activist. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() ConclusionFrom: Standing on High Ground |
This section outlines the financial and enviromnetal costs for the pipeline, calling for further nonviolent action to confront corporations and the government from those who fought agaisnt the TMX. | Adrienne Drobnies; Rosemary Cornell; Tim Bray | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Conclusion:Cars, Canadians and the Twenty-first Century From: Car Nation |
Looks at the interconnectedness of the car to the great political, environmental and economic questions of our time as a testament to the automobile’s continuing centrality in both our … | Dimitry Anastakis | 8 | 2008 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Croplands, Forests, and OceansHow Much Biocapacity Do We Have? From: Ecological Footprint |
This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() David vs. GoliathFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter explores how, as the public consultation process developed, so did opposition from local citizens. In this instance, Goliath is the dump currently owned by Waste Management of Canada … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 4 | 2017 | $0.40 Add |
![]() Ecological FootprintManaging Our Biocapacity Budget |
Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a … | 290 | View | ||
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From ![]() Ecological HinterlandHow much Biocapacity Does a City Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() End Overshoot!Communication Is Key From: Ecological Footprint |
Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() EpilogueFrom: Fighting Dirty |
Epilogue. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 5 | 2017 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Epilogue: The Ocean TodayFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In the epilogue, Trethewey looks ahead to the … | Laura Trethewey | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
![]() Fighting DirtyHow a Small Community Took on Big Trash |
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 208 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() First Stirrings of AngerFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter highlights the community’s suffering following the transformation of the newly renamed Richmond Landfill post-1988. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From ![]() FootprintA Conversation From: Ecological Footprint |
What does this all mean, and how does this relate to your life? The authors reveal how this is shaping their thinking. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |









