Energy Policy
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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  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksWater and Sewage |
North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
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From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksEnergy Efficiency and Renewables |
Canadians and Americans consume more energy per capita than any other nation. Environmental impacts of our consumptive lifestyles include ozone layer depletion, acid rain, smog, potential climate … | Marc Roseland | 16 | 2012 | $1.60 Add |
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From  PrefaceFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Outlines the author’s fascination with the tar sands, the three trips that he has taken to them, why the third trip was exponential different due to the changes in Canada, outlines the … | Tony Clarke | 6 | 2008 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Refinery Town in the Petro-StateCo-opting the Just Transition From: Unjust Transition |
Chapter One details the 2019-2020 lockout of oil refinery workers at the Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina, Canada, and the questions it raised about the possibility of a “just … | Andrew Steven; Emily Eaton; Sean Tucker | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 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 Rio to KyotoThe Road Not Taken From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … | Donald Gutstein | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Seeking Strategic Pathways to Energy SufficiencyFrom: Resilience Imperative |
Our energy diet has put us between a rock and a hot place. On one hand, we are hooked on oil and demand is increasing. On the other hand, if we do not radically reduce our fossil-fuel use, we … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 19 | 2012 | $1.90 Add |
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From Social UpheavalFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
Chapter 6 discusses the many ways in which the development of the tar sands has become a caldron that is brewing with social conflicts and tensions: (a) social conflicts: ranging from the … | Tony Clarke | 39 | 2008 | $3.90 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  Step One: Face Climate Truth |
In Chapter One the author discusses the potential for the climate emergency to become an emotional burden. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 32 | 2023 | $3.20 Add |
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From Step Three: Reimagine Your Life Story |
In Chapter Three the author describes the process of re-assessing ones relationship to the climate emergency. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 13 | 2023 | $1.30 Add |
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From Step Two: Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings |
In Chapter Two the author delves deeper into the emotions associated with climate emergency, and how to address negative feelings surrounding the topic. | Margaret Klein Salamon; Molly Gage | 24 | 2023 | $2.40 Add |
Tar Sands ShowdownCanada and the New Politics of Oil in an Age of Climate Change |
Canada’s oil patch is booming. The Alberta tar sands have become the next big oil source for the United States, replacing Saudi Arabia. Within the next 15 years, Canada will be pumping four … | 312 | View | ||
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From  The Big ShiftFrom: Getting to Zero |
Discusses the urgent need to shift from carbon intensive activities in three sectors: energy (bitumen to be declared a "sunset" industry), transportation (to shift from private internal … | Tony Clarke | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
The Big StallHow big oil and think tanks are blocking action on climate change in Canada |
This book traces the origins of the Trudeau government’s climate change plan back to the energy sector itself — in particular Big Oil. It shows how, in the last fifteen years, Big Oil … | 304 | View |
