Sustainability

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Sculpted by River and Story

Sculpted by River and Story

From: Changing Tides

Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … 11 $1.10 Add
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The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water

The Fight Against Corporate Control of Water

From: Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

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 … 30 $3.00 Add
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The Five Stages of Climate Grief

The Five Stages of Climate Grief

From: I Want a Better Catastrophe

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 … 43 $4.30 Add
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The Future of Power

The Future of Power

Learning to Live Happily Within Limits

From: Power

In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. 63 $6.30 Add
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 8 $0.80 Add
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The Great Burning

The Great Burning

From: 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 … 13 $1.30 Add
The Great Greenwashing

The Great Greenwashing

How 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 … 298 View
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The Greatest Danger - The Deadening of Heart and Mind

The Greatest Danger – The Deadening of Heart and Mind

From: 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 … ; 17 $1.70 Add
The Imperilled Ocean

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
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The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises

The Industrial Food System: Contradictions and Crises

From: Growing and Eating Sustainably

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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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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 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 Life Rural

The Life Rural

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 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 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