Environmental Policy
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From ![]() A Possible Future: The World We Can WinFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
From a climatic perspective, our transformation requires two axes: a massive reduction of emissions and a massive reduction of injustice. We must diminish vulnerabilities, reduce the drivers of … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 23 | 2018 | $2.30 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 |
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From ![]() A Triple CrisisFrom: Tar Sands Showdown |
This chapter discusses the convergence of three global and potentially deadly crises with implications for the development of the tar sands: (a) peak oil: the end of cheap, abundant supplies of … | Tony Clarke | 38 | 2008 | $3.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Advice for Action |
In Chapter 5 Kaufman offers advice for understanding how social change happens. This chapter discusses topics including personal lifestyle changes, shifting community culture, protests, … | Cynthia Kaufman | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Process of ReformReal Change? |
This chapter describe the processes leading to the enactment of the IAA, and also also traces the fate of three substantive areas of possible reform through the legislative process. The chapter … | Hugh J. Benevides | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() An Unnatural HistoryEarthquakes, Dams and Fracking From: Damming the Peace |
Investigative journalist Andrew Nikiforuk describes the impact of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley on the downstream Athabasca Delta. | Andrew Nikiforuk | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Another World Is Possible |
In Chapter 2, Kaufman provides a glimpse of what a post transition world might look like after we move away from a society built on burning fossil fuels and on exploitative of the third world, to … | Cynthia Kaufman | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From ![]() AppendixWhere to Start? Practical Tips for Getting Involved Right Now From: Ecology for the 99% |
This appendix outlines a few simple principles to help get you started in activism. | Alain Savard; Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier; Charles Simard; Clément de Gaulejac; Frédéric Legault | 6 | 2024 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Appendix: The Earth4All ModelFrom: Earth for All |
The Appendix is a breakdown of the Earth4All Model. | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() Are Dams Really that Bad?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act |
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 … | Meinhard Doelle | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() At Home in the Great LakesFrom: Overrun |
This chapter explores the current state of Asian carp in the Great Lakes and the future of the Great Lakes ecosystem. | Andrew Reeves | 29 | 2019 | $2.90 Add |
![]() Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … | 378 | View | ||
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From ![]() NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint |
This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … | Sami Grover | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |















