Environment
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Changing TidesAn Ecologist's Journey to Make Peace with the Anthropocene |
Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and … | Alejandro Frid | 220 | 2019 | View |
![]() Fighting DirtyHow a Small Community Took on Big Trash |
Fighting Dirty tells the story of how one small group of farmers, small-town residents, and Indigenous people fought the world’s largest waste disposal company to stop them from expanding a … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 208 | 2017 | View |
![]() Finding Our NicheToward a Restorative Human Ecology |
Imagine a world where humanity was not destined to cause harm to the natural world, where win-win scenarios—people and nature thriving together—are possible. No doubt contemporary … | Philip A. Loring | 168 | 2020 | View |
![]() NEW! More Powerful TogetherConversations with Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders |
How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? This is the question Jen Gobby sets out to answer in More Powerful Together. As an activist, Gobby has been actively involved … | Jen Gobby | 250 | 2020 | View |
![]() Reclaiming the Commons for the Common GoodA Memoir & Manifesto |
Commoning was a way of life for most of our ancestors. In Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good, author Heather Menzies journeys to her roots in the Scottish Highlands, where her family … | Heather Menzies | 240 | 2014 | View |
![]() NEW! The End of This WorldClimate Justice in So-Called Canada |
The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world—a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and colonial genocide—is on the horizon. In this compelling roadmap to a … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 228 | 2023 | View |
![]() There’s Something in the WaterEnvironmental Racism in Indigenous and Black Communities |
In “There’s Something In The Water”, Ingrid R. G. Waldron examines the legacy of environmental racism and its health impacts in Indigenous and Black communities in Canada, using … | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 183 | 2018 | View |
![]() NEW! To Be A Water ProtectorThe Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers |
Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. Her new book, To Be a Water Protector: Rise of … | Winona LaDuke | 320 | 2020 | View |
![]() Whose Water Is It, Anyway?Taking Water Protection into Public Hands |
The Blue Communities Project is dedicated to three primary things: that access to clean, drinkable water is a basic human right; that municipal and community water will be held in public hands; … | Maude Barlow | 161 | 2019 | View |
From ![]() A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats? |
Strategic Inadvertence and Other Shortcomings of the Environmental Justice Lens in Nova Scotia | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
From ![]() Gravity SuspendedFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter follows the author, Alejandro Frid’s personal experiences conducting dive surveys for rockfish—a genus of long-lived, marine fishes that are easy to overfish—as … | Alejandro Frid | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: To Be A Water Protector |
- | Winona LaDuke | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
This chapter examines the author’s search for their roots in Scotland and how that search helped her connect with the First Nations struggle in North America. | Heather Menzies | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() NEW! IntroductionFrom: The End of This World |
The Introduction explains the book’s main objective which is to outline how we can achieve a “just transition” as it refers to a people-powered transition from a fossil … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Finding Our Niche |
In the Preface of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces himself as a white male settler seeking to understand the implications of this identity on his ability to tell stories of positive and … | Philip A. Loring | 5 | 2020 | $0.50 Add |