Environment
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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 |
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From  Broken SpiritThe Impact of Site C on Human Health From: Damming the Peace |
Physician Warren Bell of Salmon Arm, B.C., traces the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the human values of trust, then explores the connection … | Warren Bell | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Culture and SpiritFrom: Killing the Wittigo |
In the final chapter of her book, Methot discusses indigenous spiritual and cultural practices, and how these practices can support the process of healing. | Suzanne Methot | 27 | 2023 | $2.70 Add |
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From  King RichardFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter explores developments in the battle against this expansion, and outlines some advice for community activists. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Marian Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo“Indigenous peoples’ reason for being is to be the caretakers of the air, the water, the land, and each other.” From: How We Go Home |
Marian Naranjo, of Santa Clara Pueblo, is the founder of Honor Our Pueblo Existence. She shares about the challenges the Pueblo people have had in working to steward their land in the face of … | Sara Sinclair | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Real Tragedy of the Loss of the Commons |
The cost of the Scottish Clearances through forced emmigration and the abolition of Scottish commons. | Heather Menzies | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |
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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 |
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From From Premodern Past to Digital Present |
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 |
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From Learning the Ropes and Raising a StinkFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter talks about the activism of farmer Allan Gardiner and the election of a new mayor in Greater Napanee—David Remington. Finally, it looks at effects of the expansion on the … | Poh-Gek Forkert | 8 | 2017 | $0.80 Add |
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From TransformationFrom: Changing Tides |
In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From Fractured LimestoneFrom: Fighting Dirty |
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 |
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From Reclaiming the Commons on Gabriola Isand |
The Gabriola commons is a community and community centre that exists only through the collective actions of the people. A loss of capacity building and a lot of healing will be required if such a … | Heather Menzies | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From Broken CountryThe Cumulative Impact of Site C From: Damming the Peace |
The cumulative impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the First Nations’ way of life.Why the flooding of the remaining moose habitat by the Site C … | Briony Penn | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
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From Capacity Building #1Healing and Connecting with Our Selves |
"The more I’m securely connected to myself. The more I can risk connecting with others, getting involved in the Gabriola Commons, committing to endless meetings of the Covenant Team. … | Heather Menzies | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From The Plight of Three FamiliesFrom: Fighting Dirty |
This chapter tells the story of the Shelleys, the Sutcliffes, and the Cranstons, and their struggles due to the landfill’s effects on their farms. | Poh-Gek Forkert | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From Capacity Building #2Healing, Habitats, and Reconnecting with Nature |
At its simplist, a commons is a habitat of interrelationships bound by mutuality: mutual obligation and mutual sef-interest and also, hopefully, affinity. | Heather Menzies | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
