Environmental Policy

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A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act
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A Next-Generation Assessment Framework for Examining the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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 … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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The Face of the Future

The Face of the Future

From: Not Just a Pretty Face

Green chemistry, green politics and other hopeful solutions for a healthier tomorrow. 11 $1.10 Add
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The Future of Power

The Future of Power

Learning to Live Happily Within Limits

From: Power

In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. 63 $6.30 Add
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The Glorious Gate

The Glorious Gate

From: 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. 30 $3.00 Add
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The Great Burning

The Great Burning

From: 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 … 13 $1.30 Add
The Great Greenwashing

The Great Greenwashing

How 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 … 298 View
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The Large-Scale Solutions
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The Large-Scale Solutions

From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

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 … 25 $2.50 Add
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The Long Reach of Oil’s Deep State

The Long Reach of Oil’s Deep State

From: Oi'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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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The Mechanic and the Architect

The Mechanic and the Architect

From: 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 … 22 $2.20 Add
The Memory We Could Be

The Memory We Could Be

Overcoming 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 … 338 View
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The Middle Ground

The Middle Ground

From: The Oppinionated Middle Ground

In this chapter, Cowan argues for centrist thinking in politics and public policy, tracing how the political middle has eroded from Brexit in 2016 through Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. 28 $2.80 Add
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The Might of Memory

The Might of Memory

From: 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 … 13 $1.30 Add
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The NDP in a World Made for Oil

The NDP in a World Made for Oil

From: Oi'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 … 7 $0.70 Add
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The Need for a Different Worldview

The Need for a Different Worldview

From: Techno-Fix

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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The New Gospel

The New Gospel

From: 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 … 14 $1.40 Add
The Next Generation of Impact Assessment
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The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

A Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act

Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and … ; 614 View