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Origins

From: The Memory We Could Be

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 To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … 8 $0.80 Add
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Parallel Education Systems

The Classes of 1963-1974

From: Learning to Leave

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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Greening the City

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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 Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … 16 $1.60 Add
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Part I

Politics and People: Cases in Council-Staff Relations

From: Local Government in Practice

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 This first chapter considers the relationship between staff and elected officials, and discusses the uniqueness of local governance and politics. ; ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Policing Motherhood

The Gender and Racial Effects of Poverty

From: Telling Tales

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Portapique

From: Insurgent Love

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 This chapter explores the mass murders in Portapique, Nova Scotia, in 2020. 10 $1.00 Add
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Poverty is Rediscovered

From: When Poverty Mattered

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Power in the Holocene

The Rise of Social Inequality

From: Power

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 In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … 67 $6.70 Add
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Ready to Rally

Marshalling Public Opinion, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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 In Chapter 3, Klein examines the challenges the Canadian public face when trying to bring about climate action. Klein focuses on increasing widespread awareness through Public Education, … 40 $4.00 Add
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Regenerative Design

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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 Topics include: New Design Approaches and Objectives – Design Tools and Frameworks – Building Green Homes, Towns and Cities – BedZED – Greensburg – Växjö … 18 $1.80 Add
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Religious Fundamentalism vs. the Environment

From: Canada after Harper

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 Joyce Nelson finds a close link between this political inaction and the adherence to religious fundamentalism by the Prime Minister and his closest allies. 21 $2.10 Add
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Research Methods and Design

From: Resisting Eviction

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 In this chapter, Crosby provides a methodological blueprint for doing research with social movements. He describes his work with the Herongate Tenant Coalition as political activist ethnography, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Rio to Kyoto

The Road Not Taken

From: The Big Stall

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 Analyzes the tactic of "greenwashing" and the use of terms like "sustainable development" allowing big business to adopt the language of environmentalism but none of the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Rivers and Lakes in Trouble

From: Back to the Well

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 In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. 27 $2.70 Add
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Running on empty

Climate and environment

From: Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars?

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 The third chapter of Do Androids Dream of Electric Cars? asserts that deeply recommitting to public transit is a requirement for slowing climate catastrophe. The author demonstrates how each of … 20 $2.00 Add
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Samantha Power in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

April 30, 2020

From: The World After Covid

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 Samantha Power and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and international affairs and global politics. Topics include global social and economics inequalities, different countries’ responses … 11 $1.10 Add