Environmental Policy
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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  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherThe Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything |
The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every … | Richard Heinberg | 15 | 2010 | $1.50 Add |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … | Richard Heinberg | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherA Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything |
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 … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter outlines a next-generation assessment framework that incorporates international learning as well as key themes in the Canadian deliberations surrounding the assessment law and policy … | Meinhard Doelle; Robert B. Gibson | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Face of the FutureFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
Green chemistry, green politics and other hopeful solutions for a healthier tomorrow. | Stacy Malkan | 11 | 2007 | $1.10 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Glorious GateFrom: Overrun |
This chapter discusses efforts by un United States Army Corps of Engineers to construct a barrier to prevent the Asian carp from entering the Great Lakes. | Andrew Reeves | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
 The Great GreenwashingHow Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You |
Saving the planet is big business. Realising this, savvy companies are hopping on the sustainability bandwagon. Some may have altruistic ends in mind, but most want to make a quick buck. As … | John Pabon | 298 | 2024 | View |
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From  NEW! The Large-Scale Solutions |
In Chapter 4 Kaufman provides an overview of the large-scale societal changes that need to happen to build a just and sustainable world. This chapter discusses topics such as transforming the … | Cynthia Kaufman | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From The long reach of oil’s deep stateFrom: Oil’s Deep State |
Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines the extended reach of oil’s deep state in Alberta including oil’s relationship with the World Health Organization and universities … | Kevin Taft | 19 | 2017 | $1.90 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 |
The Memory We Could BeOvercoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future |
Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 338 | 2018 | View |
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From The Might of MemoryFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 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 |
