Environmental Policy

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Every little thing

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

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Because of the magnitude of the climate crisis, change will only occur when hundreds of millions of people change their consumption habits, requiring governments pass the right laws. That’s … 11 $1.10 Add
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Industry captures the oil sands

From: Oil’s Deep State

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Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the Oil Industry’s capture of the oil sands in Alberta as a way to boost the economic interests of the province. 19 $1.90 Add
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Leverage our need for consistent IDENTITY

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter provides tools to leverage your audience’s drive to be consistent with their Identity to encourage environmental behaviours. Topics discusses include highlighting identities that … ; ; ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Notley

A New Deal?

From: The Big Stall

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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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Governing Sustainable Communities

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role … 17 $1.70 Add
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Scarcity, Yes; Conflicts, Maybe

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers asks whether water shortages lead to war, under what circumstances these conflicts occur, and where in the world they are most likely to spark. 35 $3.50 Add
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Standing on Guard for Our Waters

Ottawa's Response to the Transit of Alaskan Oil

From: 1968 in Canada

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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 … 25 $2.50 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

A Letter From the Future

From: Peak Everything

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Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced … 12 $1.20 Add
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The Need for a Different Worldview

From: Techno-Fix

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The Need for A Different Worldview suggests that a shift is needed to a different view of reality, one that is based on the fact of interconnectedness rather than the illusion of separateness, a … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Transforming our Politics

Bold Leadership, Then, There and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 12, Klein examines how we must transform our politics and our politicians, how we must vote for leaders who are willing to act and plan like Climate Change is an emergency. Klein … 28 $2.80 Add
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A Mosaic of Alternatives

From: The Memory We Could Be

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What follows is not an exact formula or a plotted route to climate safety. It is a brief map of 12 terrains of possibility, which may represent existing and potential pathways for a transition. 46 $4.60 Add
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Chapter Thirteen

Countering complacency

From: On Borrowed Time

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This chapter summarizes the measures that need to be taken to protect communities from earthquakes and tsunamis. Discusses what has actually been accomplished and how much further they ought to go. 21 $2.10 Add
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Conclusion

Forward to Victory! or Making Peace with our Planet

From: A Good War

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In the Conclusion, Klein offers his final call to action, asking his readers to begin to take steps towards a Climate Mobilization Plan for Canada, bringing us all together and for our collective … 14 $1.40 Add
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Duped and How

Summary: The Polluted Public Square

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

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I found the attacks on scientists and the volume of propaganda used to cloud environmental issues puzzling. I found myself becoming angrier about the deception and lack of fair play than I was … 12 $1.20 Add
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Empower through active OPTIMISM

From: Making Shift Happen

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This chapter focuses on how Optimism is crucial for maintaining motivation in the face of daunting environmental challenges. The chapter does this by demonstrating how to increase your audience’s … ; ; ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter considers the impacts of a proposed project on GHG emissions and carbon sinks at five critical stages of IA: triggering, information gathering, analysis, the project decision, and … 24 $2.40 Add