Environmental Policy
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From  Work With What You Have at HandFrom: Common Threads |
In most environmental stewardship practice, conversations about invasive and native species are inclined to dualistic thinking: invasive plant = bad. But what if invasive species could be useful … | Sharon Kallis | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From  "Ecology’s Helper"From: Overrun |
In this chapter, the author explores the spread of the Asian carp through the rivers of the Arkansas delta region. Topics discussed in this chapter also include the Green Revolution of the 1970s … | Andrew Reeves | 33 | 2019 | $3.30 Add |
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From  NEW! 1. Earth for AllFive Extraordinary Turnarounds for Global Equity on a Healthy Planet From: Earth for All |
Chapter 1 begins the book by examining the present challenges of the 21st century, and how this turbulence presents a unique moment in time where humanity can work together to create a better … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 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  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 Building for Change From the Ground UpFrom: Common Threads |
Beyond food, what if we began to make some of the things that we need for ourselves again as a cultural and social norm? And what if our cities and towns supported this behavior; what would that … | Sharon Kallis | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Chapter TwoResponding to the risk From: On Borrowed Time |
Details the evolution of seismographic and earthquake preparedness testing, as well as the work that has been done in various municipalities. | Gregor Craigie | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Climate JusticePART 1: Essential Groundwork From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 3 focuses on the concept of climate justice. | Aaron Saad | 19 | 2022 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Energy Alternatives to the Site C Dam in a Climate-Challenged WorldFrom: Damming the Peace |
Sustainable energy expert Guy Dauncey looks at alternatives to the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley for meeting the electricity needs of British Columbia, and … | Guy Dauncey | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Greening Commerce |
Topics include: The New Bottom Lines – The Drivers – Implementing Nature’s Strategies – The Trilogy – Growth, Consumption and Pollution – Creating New … | Andrés R. Edwards | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! How "Green" Lost Its Groove |
In this chapter, Grover details the ways in which an over-focus on purity is impeding the environmental movement, and reveals a lack of faith in collective action. | Sami Grover | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! InitiateFrom: Making Shift Happen |
This chapter explores the Initiate to begin changing our specific behaviours to help address specific issues within the larger fight against climate crisis. This chapter discusses the process and … | Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita | 63 | 2022 | $6.30 Add |
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From  IntroductionPeak Everything From: Peak Everything |
This book is not an introduction to the subject of Peak Oil. Instead it addresses the social and historical context in which Peak Oil is occurring, and explores how we can reorganize our thinking … | Richard Heinberg | 29 | 2010 | $2.90 Add |
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From  Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable PlanetMaking Community Policy |
For communities to move effectively toward sustainability, citizens and their governments should understand the range of policy instruments available to them and the wider context of how … | Marc Roseland | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 Add |
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From  SeperationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
No matter where we may be, we are inseparable from nature. We live in nature, we live with nature, we rely on nature, and we are part of nature. Yet our language hides this. When we use words … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
