Environment

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
Finding Our Niche Toward 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 …		168		View
From Finding Our Path From: Finding Our Niche View Fernwood Publishing	The seventh and final chapter of Finding Our Niche, Finding Our Path, begins with the assertion that evidence for how to live within the harmony and limits of nature is all around us, and that it …	Philip A. Loring	24	2020	$2.40 Add
From First Stirrings of Anger From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter highlights the community’s suffering following the transformation of the newly renamed Richmond Landfill post-1988.	Poh-Gek Forkert	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From Fractured Limestone From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter details Steve Medd’s role in this story and environmental issues caused by the landfill. The issue of "fractured limestone" is explored.	Poh-Gek Forkert	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From From Premodern Past to Digital Present From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	The disappearance of commons across the globe pushes the author to act on her expriences in Scotland, throwing her support behind the Idle No More movement.	Heather Menzies	9	2014	$0.90 Add
From From the Lab to the Trenches From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	The author talks about how he came to join the fight between a small but determined group of rural folks and the biggest garbage company in the world, which happened when he agreed to work as a …	Poh-Gek Forkert	4	2017	$0.40 Add
From Gardening, Agroecology and Forming Relationships with the Land From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers	Alliances are being formed, facilitating scale-up. New food assembly and distribution hubs are being created for farmers producing on a larger scale but still using more responsible …	Heather Menzies	10	2014	$1.00 Add
From Glossary From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good View New Society Publishers		Heather Menzies	4	2014	$0.40 Add
From Goodbye Local Garbageman, Hello Mega-dump From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter looks at the messy aftermath of Fred Sutcliffe’s decision to submit an application to the provincial Ministry of the Envrionment to expand his dumpsite.	Poh-Gek Forkert	7	2017	$0.70 Add
From Grass Roots From: Fighting Dirty View Between The Lines	This chapter follows developments in the fight around the turn of the century. It touches on political fights and journalism.	Poh-Gek Forkert	12	2017	$1.20 Add
From Gravity Suspended From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	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! Green Infrastructure for All From: The End of This World View Between The Lines	Chapter 4 focuses on how for the energy transition to be just, green, and decolonial, it will also have to undo the theft of land and life that currently underlies the economy of so-called …	Angele Alook; Bronwen Tucker; Crystal Lameman; David Gray-Donald; Emily Eaton; Joël Laforest	21	2023	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Green schemes, fossil dreams The Trudeau government’s inconclusive climate legacy From: The Trudeau Record View James Lorimer and Company	This chapter examines the Trudeau government’s response to the climate crisis, including the international and domestic agreements to reduce emissions, the national carbon pricing system, …	Hadrian Mertins-Kirkwood	16	2024	$1.60 Add
From NEW! How We Get From Here to There From: More Powerful Together View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter contains the following readings: The Movements’ Theories of Change – The Context – How We Understand and What We Value – How We Take Action – How We …	Jen Gobby	49	2020	$4.90 Add
From NEW! Science and Indigenous Knowledge as the Evidentiary Basis for Impact Assessment From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter considers the Impact Assessment Act’s (IAA) approach to science and Indigenous knowledge by setting out the roles that science and Indigenous knowledge play in establishing the …	Martin Olszynski	25	2021	$2.50 Add
From Introduction From: Damming the Peace View James Lorimer and Company	In the Introduction, author Wendy Holm describes the Site C dam project in B.C. and summarizes the impacts and effects of the project which are analyzed and critiqued in other chapters of the …	Wendy Holm	5	2018	$0.50 Add