Sustainability
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From ![]() Triumph of the SunThe Mother of All Disruptions From: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores the disruptive potential of solar power to completely transform the way that we produce and use electricity as a society. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 47 | 2018 | $4.70 Add |
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From ![]() Turning Activists into Terrorists |
John Sorenson | 40 | 2016 | $3.60 Add | |
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From ![]() Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and HowFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Project Impact AssessmentsTriggering and Coverage |
This chapter focuses on two questions. First: how effectively are the purposes of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) likely to be met given the triggering process and coverage of projects under the … | Stephen Hazell | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From ![]() UNESCODownstream Impact on the Athabasca Delta From: Damming the Peace |
Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the linkages between the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, fracking in the adjacent Moberly Field, and the potential impact on … | Andrew Nikiforuk | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
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From ![]() Urban Water CrisesFrom: Dry Run |
Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From ![]() Visible from SpaceFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at Hydro-Quebec, criticisms, and environmental concerns. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() WaterA Human Right From: Consuming Sustainability |
Michael Gismondi; Stephen Speake | 23 | 2005 | $2.30 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Weaving a New Story of MeaningFrom: The Web of Meaning |
The chapter concludes that an ecological civilization will emerge only when the symbiotic linkages between people become a more powerful force than the competitive impulses engendered by the … | Jeremy Lent | 34 | 2021 | $3.40 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Welcome to the Anthropocene |
In this chapter, Rand summarizes the challenges facing humanity if it wants to survive the 21st century. He concludes with a letter to his son, giving a vision of a future where climate change is … | Tom Rand | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() What is Europe Worth?From: Fair Future |
Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 15 | 2005 | $1.50 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! What is Still Worth Doing? |
In this chapter, Boyd explores if we have personal obligations to make environmentally considerate choices during the late stages of the climate crisis. Boyd discusses which individual … | Andrew Boyd | 74 | 2023 | $7.40 Add |
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From ![]() What is the Work that Reconnects?From: Coming Back to Life |
As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() 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 … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! What We Are Up AgainstScience and Politics |
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 … | Cynthia Kaufman | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() What We Don’t Know About FrackingFrom: 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 … | Marq de Villiers | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |


















