Environmental Policy
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From  Chapter SixThe big one coming to the bee hive state From: On Borrowed Time |
This chapter explores Salt Lake City, which, while not an obvious location, presents with a substantial earthquake risk and needs to prepare its infrastructure for such an event. | Gregor Craigie | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined |
In this chapter, the author explores the recent rise of Certified B Corporations, which are governed by a set of criteria that includes waste management practices, energy consumption, … | Sami Grover | 13 | 2021 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Human Nature or Human Ignorance?From: The Memory We Could Be |
The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 37 | 2018 | $3.70 Add |
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From  NEW! MethodsFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 41 | 2022 | $4.10 Add |
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From  Optimum PowerSustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power |
This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … | Richard Heinberg | 51 | 2021 | $5.10 Add |
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From  Rape of the CommonsThe Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security From: Damming the Peace |
Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … | Wendy Holm | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Remaking the Economy, Then and NowFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 6, Klein examines the practically of fundamentally retooling our entire economy by reexamining how it has been done before during the Second World War. Klein focuses much of this … | Seth Klein | 64 | 2020 | $6.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Social Democracy and a Green New DealPART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … | Aaron Saad | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 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  The dynamics of democracyFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft offers a brief analysis of how a modern democracy functions through its institutions which go far beyond elected legislative bodies. | Kevin Taft | 7 | 2017 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Trouble with FishingFrom: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author travels to Illinois to meet with commercial fishermen who fish the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Topics discussed include the methods that fishers use to attempt to … | Andrew Reeves | 28 | 2019 | $2.80 Add |
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From  NEW! UNDRIP, Decision Making, and the Role of Indigenous Peoples |
This chapter explores establishment of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Rediscovery of a Post-colonial Canada (UNDRIP) and its impact following its adoption … | Sara Mainville | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From "Eat ’em to Beat ’em"From: Overrun |
This chapter explores the possibility of controlling invasive species by using them as a food source. Topics include the process of food production and the communication and marketing efforts … | Andrew Reeves | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! 6. The Food TurnaroundMaking the Food System Healthy for People and Planet From: Earth for All |
Chapter 6 examines the challenges of food security and the future of agriculture, discussing topics including our current effects on the earth’s biosphere, the need for a new agricultural … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From A theory of the deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft introuces the concepts of institutional capture and deep state and links them together to outline a theory of the deep state, as background for a … | Kevin Taft | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  A Thriveable Future |
Topics include: The SPIRALS Framework – Scalable – Place-making – Intergenerational – Resilient – Accessible – Life-affirming – Self-care – Moving … | Andrés R. Edwards | 17 | 2010 | $1.70 Add |
