Environment

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A Field in Good Heart

A Field in Good Heart

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Tending to the garden provides insight and new connections for the author. 5 $0.50 Add
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A History of Violence

A History of Violence

From: There's Something in the Water

Indigenous and Black Conquest, Dispossession, and Genocide in Settler-Colonial Nations 16 $1.60 Add
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats?

A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats?

From: There's Something in the Water

Strategic Inadvertence and Other Shortcomings of the Environmental Justice Lens in Nova Scotia 20 $2.00 Add
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Alienation

Alienation

From: Finding Our Niche

In the first chapter of Finding Our Niche, Alienation, Loring introduces the eco-modernist philosophy that humans are inherently destructive of and separate from nature, and explains how that … 26 $2.60 Add
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An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

Common cause projects can at the same time tackle the global and local activist divide, bringing members of national and international groups together with local, grounded activists. 14 $1.40 Add
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An Historical Frame for Current Activism

An Historical Frame for Current Activism

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

If we want to come home to the Earth, reviving our sense of connection to it, we must first come home to ourselves, healing our relationship with ourselves, and those around us. 9 $0.90 Add
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An Unnatural History

An Unnatural History

Earthquakes, Dams and Fracking

From: Damming the Peace

Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. 13 $1.30 Add
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Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings

From: The Story is in Our Bones

This chapter describes the connection between deforestation and the loss of Indigenous land rights. Using the resilience and interconnectivity of trees as a metaphor, Lake outlines how various … 22 $2.20 Add
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At an Impasse

At an Impasse

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

This chapter covers the author’s struggle of feeling lost and directionless, trying to find meaning and focus in searching for answers. It also talks about her decision to search for her … 4 $0.40 Add
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At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

From: Changing Tides

This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … 10 $1.00 Add
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Author’s Note and Foreward

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue. ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Beautiful Protest

Beautiful Protest

From: Changing Tides

This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation

Blaine Wilson, Tsartlip First Nation

“When I was twenty-five, thirty, there was more salmon and I was fishing every other day. Now I’m lucky to go once a week.”

From: How We Go Home

Blaine Wilson, of Tsartlip First Nation on Vancouver Island, is a hunter and fisherperson, one of the few remaining who know how to live off the land. He describes his childhood and family at … 12 $1.20 Add