Environment
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From ![]() A Field in Good Heart |
Tending to the garden provides insight and new connections for the author. | Heather Menzies | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() A History of Violence |
Indigenous and Black Conquest, Dispossession, and Genocide in Settler-Colonial Nations | Ingrid R.G. Waldron | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From ![]() NEW! A Just Fossil Fuel Phase-OutFrom: The End of This World |
Chapter 3 focuses on the oil and gas industry, as it represents a much larger share of fossil fuel production by emissions than coal and has a stronger political influence, and because the … | Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest | 21 | 2023 | $2.10 Add |
From ![]() A Mountain of GarbageFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter traces developments in this case, and the work of citizens to fight against the landfill expansion. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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 ![]() AlienationFrom: 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 … | Philip A. Loring | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
From ![]() An Economy of Fair Trade and Right Relations |
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. | Heather Menzies | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() An Historical Frame for Current Activism |
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. | Heather Menzies | 9 | 2014 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, 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. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() An Unwavering ActivistFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter focuses on Mary Lynne Sammon, a key activist in this struggle. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Ancient Trees and Ancestral Warnings |
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 … | Osprey Orielle Lake | 22 | 2024 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() At an Impasse |
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 … | Heather Menzies | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
From ![]() At the Edge of Geologic EpochsFrom: 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 … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() NEW! Author’s Note and Foreward |
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. | Casey Camp-Horinek; Osprey Orielle Lake | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() Beautiful ProtestFrom: 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 … | Alejandro Frid | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() 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 … | Sara Sinclair | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |