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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another A Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another Talking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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
From NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter outlines a next-generation assessment framework that incorporates international learning as well as key themes in the Canadian deliberations surrounding the assessment law and policy …	Meinhard Doelle; Robert B. Gibson	21	2021	$2.10 Add
From The Exuberance of Herring From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring.	Alejandro Frid	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway? View ECW Press	In this reading, the author provides the background on how she became involved in water activism. She goes on to discuss how government deregulation has allowed corporations to exploit water as a …	Maude Barlow	30	2019	$3.00 Add
From NEW! The Five Stages of Climate Grief From: I Want a Better Catastrophe View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Boyd discusses climate grief and the six stages that accompany this process; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and gallows humour. This chapter includes an …	Andrew Boyd	43	2023	$4.30 Add
From The Future of Power Learning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power View New Society Publishers	In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint.	Richard Heinberg	63	2021	$6.30 Add
From The Great Burning From: The Memory We Could Be View New Society Publishers	Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	13	2018	$1.30 Add
From The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and Mind From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	perils facing life on Earth are so massive and unprecedented they are hard even to take in. The very danger signals that should rivet our attention, summon up the blood and bond us in collective …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	17	2014	$1.70 Add
The Imperilled Ocean Human Stories From a Changing Sea	An exploration of the earth’s last wild frontier, filled with high-stakes stories of people and places facing an uncertain future. On a life raft in the Mediterranean, a teenager from Ghana …		238		View
From The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter looks at the industrial food system — its origins and the problems it generates — which casts yet more doubt on the conventional wisdom that industrial agriculture is the best way to …	Dana James	12	2021	$1.20 Add
From The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended Consequences From: Techno-Fix View New Society Publishers	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 …	Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann	15	2011	$1.50 Add
From NEW! The Large-Scale Solutions From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We View Between The Lines	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 …	Cynthia Kaufman	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From NEW! The Life Rural Part One From: Earthkeeping View Goose Lane Editions	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 …	Gary Saunders	19	2022	$1.90 Add
From The Limits of Farmer-Control Food Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board From: Food Sovereignty in Canada View Fernwood Publishing		Andre Magnan	20	2010	$2.80 Add