Sustainability
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherTalking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From  NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act |
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 |
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From  The Exuberance of HerringFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. | Alejandro Frid | 19 | 2019 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Five Stages of Climate Grief |
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 |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Good, the Bad, and the UglyFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 8 | 2024 | $0.80 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
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 |
The Great GreenwashingHow Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You |
Saving the planet is big business. Realising this, savvy companies are hopping on the sustainability bandwagon. Some may have altruistic ends in mind, but most want to make a quick buck. As … | John Pabon | 298 | 2024 | View |
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From  The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and MindFrom: Coming Back to Life |
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 OceanHuman 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 | ||
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From  The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises |
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 |
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From  The Inherent Unavoidability and Unpredictability of Unintended ConsequencesFrom: 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 … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 15 | 2011 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! The Large-Scale Solutions |
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 |
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From  NEW! The Life RuralPart 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 … | Gary Saunders | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  The Limits of Farmer-ControlFood Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board |
Andre Magnan | 20 | 2010 | $2.80 Add |
