- After the Crash
The Emergence of the Rainbow Economy Resource Type: Book
- Agroecology Case Studies
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The thirty-three case studies shed light on the tremendous success of agroecological agriculture across the African continent. They demonstrate with facts and figures how an agricultural transformation respectful of farmers and their environment can yield immense economic, social, and food security benefits while also fighting climate change and restoring soils and the environment.
- Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Centennial College
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Community Workshops for the Environment
An Organizer's Manual Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A guide to organizing ecology workshops.
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks
Resource Type: Article Published: 2000 The story of Ontario's right-wing Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
- Cruise industry chafes at regulation that would help clean up Alaska's air
Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The cruise ship Sapphire Princess will emit the same amount of sulphur dioxide as 13.1m cars as it takes its guests from Whittier, Alaska to Glacier Bay and eventually Vancouver.
- Downstream and Upstream Ecologists
The People, Organizatons, and Ideas Behind the Movement Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Mercier discusses the environmental movement and identifies specialized ecologists of different spectrums.
- Earth Day Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ecodefence: Disrupting Illegal Activities
Resource Type: Article Published: 1985 What to do when you witness environmental crimes.
- 100 Wörter des Jahrhunderts
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- EnvironmentSources.com
Resource Type: Website Published: 2017 Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
- Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Fish habitat protection waning under Harper government, analysis finds
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A statistical analysis of the Conservative government's changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has "all but abandoned" attempts to protect Canada's lakes and rivers.
- Fisheries and Oceans Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 All of this ecological destruction has been driven by Americas most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
- Indigenous Women: The Frontline Protectors of the Environment
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Indigenous women, while experiencing the first and worst effects of climate change globally, are often in the frontline in struggles to protect the environment.
- Inuit Tapiriit Kanatami
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Lack of regulation behind West Virginia water disaster
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 A chemical spill at the Etowah River Terminal, near Charleston, West Virginia, resulted in nearly 300,000 people in the state losing access to drinkable water. Since then, several reports have been released detailing the decades-long lack of regulation by state or federal agencies of the site responsible.
- Leaked TTIP papers reveal 100% corporate sellout
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Secret documents leaked to Greenpeace from the EU-US TTIP negotiations show that environmental protection, climate change mitigation, consumer protection, public health and sustainability are sacrificed throughout to corporate profit and commercial interests.
- Life, Money & Illusion
Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 The failure to reduce green house gas emissions, the success of efforts to curb ozone depletion, causes related to prosperity and social justice are just some the topics covered. By using the example of Kerela, India, Nickerson shows how a society by working together can become car-free, religious and bigotry free, have a high level of health care and literacy and be able to sustain itself on a fraction of the money on which we depend.
- Living with the Land
Communities Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
- Managing Wastes
A Guide to Citizens' Involvement Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Second editon of booklet first published in 1984, outling how citizens can involve themselves in decision-making about waste management.
- The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them. Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Neskantaga First Nation Battles American Mining Goliath Cliffs in Toronto Mining Court
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 The Neskantaga First Nation is taking their fight for proper First Nation consultation in the Ring of Fire to the Toronto Mining Court.
- On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - February 12, 2015
SYRIZA Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This week we're featuring the 40-point program which SYRIZA, the Greek coalition of the radical left, put forward to win the Greek election. Oliver Tickell writes about the mass media's latest campaign of pro-war propaganda, this time revolving around supposed "Russian aggression" in Ukraine, while Paul Edwards looks at another form of war propaganda, Clint Eastwood's 'American Sniper'. The Topic of the Week is Water Rights. Related items include the film "Blue Gold: World Water Wars," the featured website International Rivers, and articles on water-related struggles, past and present, including articles on the Walkerton water disaster and the Cochabamba water war.
- Paradise Lost at Sea
Rethinking Cruise Vacations Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 Klein's book looks at the hidden realities of cruise ships. The cruise lines prefers to keep some of the ugly truths from media scrutiny: cruise ship safety, sexual assaults, onboard crime and injury and death from accidents at sea. He also questions their claims of environmental protection and its impact on local communities to protect their marine nature. Further exposed are the health risks and medical care and the dark side of life below deck. He concludes by summarizing the issues and challenges that must be faced by all who use curise ships.
- Poison Spring
The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Vallianatos and Jenkins, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pull back the curtain on the watchdog agency's failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices.
- The Politics of Pachamama
Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the states larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
- The Polluters
The Making of Our Chemically Altered Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 2010 Provides an account of the American chemical industry and its effect on the environment.
- The Rising Seas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Ryan Reynolds and a host of other Canadian celebrities have joined forces to protect nature
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Ryan Reynolds, Jason Priestley, William Shatner and Rachel Blanchard, star in A Force for Nature - a 30 minute television journey through some of our most magnificent but threatened landscapes.
- Saskatchewan Institute of Applied Science and Technology
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Sounding the alarm on environmental issues comes at a steep price
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 On 20 April 2014 Human Rights Watch issued an urgent call for information on the whereabouts of Thai activist Por Cha Lee Rakchongcharoen, known as "Billy". The prominent ethnic Karen activist has been involved in a lawsuit with authorities over land use at a national park in Thailand. Locals have faced intimidation from park officials, and an activist connected to Billy's network was killed in 2011 after helping Karen villagers report on alleged abuses, illegal logging, and poaching committed by park officials.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society. The Canadian Marine Environment Protection Society monitors and reports on the population status of Arctic marine mammals.
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- State of the Ark
An Atlas of Conservation in Action Resource Type: Book
- Toronto Council Moves to Protect City's Water from Pipeline Spills
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Toronto City Council's motion asking for emergency shut-off values on either side of the City of Toronto's major watercourses reflects increased resident pressure on the city to defend us all against environmental hazards.
- Toward Sustainable Communities
Resources for Citizens and their Governments Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 The way our urban communities develop will largely determine our success or failure in overcoming environmental challenges and achieving sustainable development. Toward Sustainable Communities offer practical suggestions and innovative solutions to a wide range of municipal and community problems.
- Unity for the Climate
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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