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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The 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 … 15 $1.50 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Bridging 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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Boomers' Last Chance?

From: Peak Everything

In this chapter I hope to explore some of the circumstances that have made us Boomers what and who we are, and to argue that, having failed to live up to some of our expressed ideals and now … 14 $1.40 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

A 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Talking Ourselves to Extinction

From: Peak Everything

Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … 14 $1.40 Add
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The Exuberance of Herring

The Exuberance of Herring

From: Changing Tides

This chapter is based on Frid’s research collaborations with coastal First Nations and academics on herring. 19 $1.90 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 Five Stages of Climate Grief
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The Five Stages of Climate Grief

From: I Want a Better Catastrophe

In this chapter, Boyd discusses climate grief and the six stages that accompany this process; denial, anger, bargaining, depression, acceptance, and gallows humour. This chapter includes an … 43 $4.30 Add
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The Food Co-op Waves

The Food Co-op Waves

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes Black American and working-class consumer co-ops founded in the 1930s Great Depression, many of which, resembling conventional grocery stores, are still in operation while … 18 $1.80 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 Future of the Commons

The Future of the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

There is much more that can be said about the commons — in greater depth, with greater precision, from different cultural perspectives, and with the wisdom of historians, poets and artists. … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Global Indigenous Power Shift

The Global Indigenous Power Shift

From: Indigenomics

Topics discussed in this chapter include case studies of Indigenomics movements around the world including those in New Zealand, Ecuador, and Bolivia. The chapter ends with an overview of United … 8 $0.80 Add
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The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral

The Good, the Bad, and the Neutral

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

In this chapter and those following, I will continue to build on these arguments but also build further upon the argument of the importance of people: that i-tech should not replace human … 20 $2.00 Add
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The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Esports and the Business of Gaming

From: i-Minds, 2nd edition

We need more fun in our lives. But, when gaming morphs into obsession, replaces and supersedes multiple forms of physical and mental leisure activity, adversely starts to affect physical health, … 16 $1.60 Add
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The Grand Delusion

The Grand Delusion

From: Humanizing the Economy

Homo Economicus Industrialization and Social Defence 24 $2.40 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