Energy Policy
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From  NEW! Defending Indigenous Rights against the Just SocietyFrom: 1968 in Canada |
This chapter traces the historical importance of, and interrelations between, developments in federal “Indian policy” and investments in fossil fuel extraction, and Indigenous … | Andrew Gemmell | 27 | 2021 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Energy and the Future of FarmingFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
We can and should energize our modern food production system with solar and other renewable energy sources, as has been done for most of the past 10,000 years. To be sure, the sun will always … | Gary S. Kleppel | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  From Environmental Crisis to Business TransitionFrom: The Big Stall |
Discusses how corporations came to recognize climate change as a profitable opportunity, and how public policy shifted from regulation of carbon emissions to measures that corporate leaders … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Resistance MovementFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 7 discusses the building of a social movement of resistance against the massive and rapid development of the tar sands for crude exports to the US: (a) campaign networks: the various … | Tony Clarke | 35 | 2008 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Access to EnergyHow Form Overtook Substance and Disempowered the Poor in Nova Scotia |
Examination of the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal decision in Boulter to illustrate the denial of equal access to energy to disadvantaged communities. | Claire McNeil; Vincent Calderhead | 28 | 2014 | $2.80 Add |
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From Dream ChangeFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This final chapter discusses the need to start changing the dream of the good life based on accumulating wealth and power, including our model of industrialization, and developing strategies for … | Tony Clarke | 40 | 2008 | $4.00 Add |
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From  Energy, Climate, the Earth and Justice |
OBJECTIVES Cognizing the Environment, Earth and Huymanity Law and Environmental Justice Legal Environmental Justice Early Environmental Justice Movements Ecological Justice: The Earth Commons … | Margot A. Hurlbert | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 Add |
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From The New GospelFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes neo-liberal environmental policies which avoided any negative impact on corporations during the 2000s. The British Columbia carbon tax is used as a case study to show how it is business … | Donald Gutstein | 14 | 2018 | $1.40 Add |
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From The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From ParisBig Oil Gets Its Deal From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From NotleyA New Deal? From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the Alberta NDP government of Rachel Notley and its policies in response to climate change. Concludes that these policies guarantee that the oil industry’s extraction will continue … | Donald Gutstein | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
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From NEW! Standing on Guard for Our WatersOttawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil From: 1968 in Canada |
The discovery of massive quantities of recoverable oil on the north slope of Alaska in July 1968 and competing shipping alternatives to transit the hydrocarbons south, through or adjacent to … | Christopher Kirkey | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From Welcome to the Clean Growth CenturyFrom: The Big Stall |
Analyzes Justin Trudeau’s environmental policies and his alliance with Rachel Notley. Liberal Party policies speak about capitalizing on the opportunities of a low carbon economy, but fail … | Donald Gutstein | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The NDP in a world made for oilFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the rise of Rachel Notley’s NDP party in Alberta with focus on the change in policy towards the oil industry that occurred during the … | Kevin Taft | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From Two Degrees Too Late (A Shell Game)From: The Big Stall |
Examines why climate scientists believe it is imperative to limit warming to no more than 2 degrees celsius. Discusses why turning to natural gas, as is advocated by energy corporations and many … | Donald Gutstein | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Learning Into the FutureListen Deeply with Otto Scharmer and Anne Giardini |
When Scharmer joined the MIT Learning Center founded by Peter Senge, he focused on what they call learning from the emerging future as opposed to the past, “and only then did I start to tap … | James Hoggan | 12 | 2016 | $1.20 Add |
