- Animal Life
Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Animal Tracks
Peterson Field Guides Resource Type: Book Published: 1974
- Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon.
- Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
Resource Type: Book
- The Art of Robert Bateman
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981
- Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Repitles and Amphibians
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979
- Backyard Habitats
Resource Type: Article
- Beechcombings
The Narratives of Trees Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 The author traces the relatioship between English society and its trees through the ages, from the dependence of the middle ages to stewardship, to dominance, to landscape architecture, to a regret for the lost innocence of virginal forests.
- Beyond Your Doorstep
A Handbook to the Country Resource Type: Book Published: 1971
- A Bird-Finding Guide to Ontario
Where the birds are and how to get there Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- A Birdfinding Guide to the Toronto Region
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988
- The Cambridge Companion to Canadian Literature
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Broad surveys of fiction, drama, and poetry, Aboriginal writings, Francophone writings, autobiography, literary criticism, writing by women, urban writing, nature writing, travel writing, and short fiction.
- Canada: A Natural History
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Canada: A Natural History surveys the varying ecosystems of the northern part of this continent, explaining their characteristics, vividly illustrated by the photographs of Tim Fitzharris.
- Canada and the State of the Planet
The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Caribou and the Barren Lands
Resource Type: Book Calef, a wildlife biologist, studied the caribou and chronicled the vibrancy and complexity of the northern lands and environment.
- Coming Back to Life
Practices to Reconnect Our Lives, Our World Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 A guidebook for dealing with the despair that stands in the way our our changing the world.
- Connexions
Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Annual 1994
A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1994 Simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives. The bulk of the Annual is devoted to listings of grassroots groups. It also contains a series of introductory articles surveying a wide range of social and environmental issues and possibile alternatives.
- Connexions Annual Resource and Reading List
Resource Type: Article Published: 1994 A short and selective list of resources on issues addressed in the Connexions Annual, such as environment, education, peace, interntional development, women's issues, urban issues, housing, human rights, civil liberties, social change.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1988
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Digest
Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Connexions Library: Nature Focus
Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on nature.
- Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered Resource Type: Book
- Desert Solitaire
A season in the wilderness Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- A Dictionary of Biology
Resource Type: Book Published: 1961
- Digital Disconnect and its adverse impact on how (or whether) we engage with nature
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 As the Digital Schoolhouse programme starts a national roll out to schools across the UK, scientists warn that digital disconnect can mean caring less - for each other and the environment.
- Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike."
- Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment.
- The Domination of Nature
Resource Type: Book Leiss relates environmental concerns back to the fundamental problem of man's domination of his fellow man. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of the relationship between humanity and nature.
- Drawing the Line
A pamphlet Resource Type: Book Published: 1962
- The Earth Science Book
Activities for Kids Resource Type: Book Published: 1993 Activities that explain basic Earth science facts and important environmental issues. Using simple materials found around the house or in the neighbourhood, these activities are designed to teach children about the planet Earth, its composition and atmosphere, life on Earth, and much more.
- The Ecology of Freedom
The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy Resource Type: Book Published: 2005 Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
- The Encyclopedia of Trees
Canada and USA Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- A Field Guide to Eastern Forests
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A "second-generation" field guide to the ecology of the forests and fields of eastern North America.
- The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Mammals
Resource Type: Book
- A Field Guide to the Birds of Eastern and Central North America
Resource Type: Book Published: 1980
- A Field Guide to the Ferns
Peterson Field Guides Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Field Notes From a Hidden City
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 Woolfson examines the elements - geographic, atmospheric and environmental - which bring diverse life forms to live in close proximity in cities. She considers prevailing attitudes towards the natural world, urban and non-urban wildlife, the values we place on the lives of individual species and the ways in which humans and creatures live together in cities.
- Flying in the Face of Nature
A Year in the Minsmere Bird Reserve Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 The author describes conservation efforts around the world, using the Minsmere bird reserve in Britain as a starting point.
- Forest Plants of Central Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Freshwater Fishes
Peterson Field Guides Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- The future is agroecology
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The way to a sustainable, people-centred agriculture lies in agroecology - farming based on ecological principles, taking account of the interdependence of all living things.
- George Orwell: A Life
Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 A biography of George Orwell.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Great Country Walks Around Toronto
Within reach by public transit Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- Green Cities
Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
- The Green Trees Beyond
A Memoir Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 R.D. Lawrence, a self-taught biologist whose first years of life coincided with the Spanish civil war, and who later became a noted as well as self-taught Canadian biologist.
- A Guide to Bird Guides
Resource Type: Article Published: 1988 When you only have mere seconds in which to observe a bird and identify it, and you aren't already an expert ornithologist, the field guide you use, and your familiarity with it, become of prime importance. How it's arranged, the clarity of its illustrations and verbal descriptions, are crucial when you are trying to identify a bird from what has really only been a fleeting glimpse of your subject.
- A Guide to Feeding Winter Birds in Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- A Guide to the Photographic Identification of Individual Whales Based on Natural & Acquired Markings
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Guide to the Toronto Field Naturalists' Nature Reserve
Resource Type: Book Published: 1986
- Guide to the Toronto Field Naturalists' Nature Reserves
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- Healing the Wounds
The Promise of Ecofeminism Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 An anthology of writings on ecofeminism.
- Heeding nature to understand ourselves
A new genre of writing is putting centre stage the interconnectedness between human beings and the wilderness Resource Type: Article Published: 2007 A new literary tendency in the nature writing genre is to point out the interconnectedness between humans and their environment. Rather than study nature as a thing apart from man, these books challenge their readers to engage with the other species in their immediate surroundings.
- How To Spot a Fox
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Henry shares tactics that enable weekend naturalists to approach and observe foxes unobtrusively.
- Human Nature
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation.
- Humboldt, Alexander von
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article Naturalist. (1769-1859).
- Index to Illustrations of the Natural World
Resource Type: Book Published: 1977
- Insects and Spiders
An Explore Your World Handbook Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- The Invention of Nature: adventures of Alexander Humboldt, lost hero of science
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Andrea Wulf's book about the remarkable 19th century explorer and naturalist Alexander von Humboldt is welcome, opportune and a pleasure to read, packed as it is with high adventure and amazing discoveries. We have much to learn from him today in tackling the world's environmental crises; reading this book is an excellent - and enjoyable - way to begin.
- Islands of Hope
Ontario's Parks and Wilderness Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- Kropokin on Mutual Aid - Review
Resource Type: Article Published: 1956
- Landscapes of the Interior
Re-explorations of Nature and the Human Spirit Resource Type: Book Published: 1996
- The Last Barrier
Resource Type: Book
- Last of the Curlews
Resource Type: Book Published: 1954
- The Laws of Nature
A Skeptics Guide Resource Type: Article Published: 2000
- The Legacy of Luna
The Story of a Tree, a Woman, and the Struggle to Save the Redwoods Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Legacy
The Natural History of Ontario Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A comprehensive, extensively illustrated natural history of Ontario, covering bedrock, soils, birds, mammals, insects, wildflowers, forests, prehistoric life, and much more.
- Leopold, Aldo
Connexipedia Article Resource Type: Article American ecologist, forester, and environmentalist who was influential in the development of modern environmental ethics and in the movement for wilderness preservation. (1887-1948).
- Life in Lakes and Rivers
Resource Type: Book Published: 1972
- A Little Wilderness
A Natural History of Toronto Resource Type: Book Published: 1983
- The Living Planet
Resource Type: Book Published: 1984 The story of the Earth's surface and its colonization by animals and plants.
- The Living Waters
Resource Type: Book Published: 1975
- Make it a Green Holiday: Put a piece of Canada under the tree
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 This holiday season, the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has the answer for holiday shoppers struggling to find that perfect gift. Give your friends and family a Gift of Canadian Nature.
- Manifesto for the Green Mind
Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Jules Pretty sets out a plan to engage people with Nature and create more sustainable and enjoyable living for everyone. The first call to action is: "Every child outdoors every day".
- Marx and Nature
A Red and Green Perspective Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
- Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marxs critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
- Marxism and the Dialectics of Ecology
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 The recovery of the ecological-materialist foundations of Karl Marxs thought, as embodied in his theory of metabolic rift, is redefining both Marxism and ecology in our time, reintegrating the critique of capital with critical natural science. Marx's materialist conception of history is inextricably connected to the materialist conception of nature, encompassing not only the critique of political economy, but also the critical appropriation of the natural-scientific revolutions occurring in his day.
- Marx's Concept of the Alternative to Capitalism
Resource Type: Book Published: 2013 In contrast to the traditional view that Marx's work is restricted to a critique of capitalism and that he consciously avoided any detailed conception of its alternative this work shows that Marx was committed to a specific concept of a post-capitalist society which informed the whole of his approach to political economy.
- Mein Gruenes Revier
Resource Type: Book
- 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."
- Naming Nature
A Seasonal Guide for the Amateur Naturalist Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 Encouraging people to explore nature, the author describes and names different plants and animals.
- Native Wild Plants of Eastern Canada and the Adjacent Northeastern United States
Resource Type: Book Published: 1982
- The Natural History of Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 Written for the general reader, and well-illustrated, this book paints Canada's natural world in broad brush strokes but with a wealth of detail.
- A Natural History of Sex
The Ecology and Evolution of Mating Behavior Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 Biologist, Forsyth explores the diverse and often bizarre sexual behaviour of plants, animals, and humans.
- The Natural Role of Humans in the Wilderness
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- A Naturalist's Guide to Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1979
- Nature Bound
Pocket Field Guide Resource Type: Book Published: 1985
- Nature Conservancy of Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A Nature Guide To Ontario
Resource Type: Book A guide to Ontario's wildlife and special places for outdoor enthusiasts.
- Nature Hikes
Near-Toronto Trails and Adventures Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- The Nature of Coyotes
Voce of the Wilderness Resource Type: Book Published: 1994
- Nature, science & power
Questions need to be asked... Resource Type: Website Published: 2014 Here many questions will be asked, some answers attempted. This blog connects to a new book: Bold Scientists: dispatches from the battle for honest science, published in 2014 by Between the Lines.
- Nature Topic Index in Sources Directory of Experts
Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources Resource Type: Website A subject guide to experts and spokespersons on topics related to nature in the Sources directory for the media.
- Nature Walking
Resource Type: Book Nature Walking is a step back in history to the writings of Emerson the "father" of nature writing and Thoreau. Both men shared a profound love of the outdoors. To each nature is a source of inspiration and awe. They have the ability to remind us that nature is a part of our everyday lives "...nature is itself the enterprise and adventure of the day".
- The Norton Book of Nature Writing
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015
Residential schools Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017
Official Enemies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies?
- Park Ranger Guide to Rivers & Lakes
What to see and learn on America's freshwaters Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- The Philosophy of Social Ecology
Essays on Dialectical Naturalism Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Bookchin addresses questions such as 'What is nature?", "What is humanity's place in nature?", "What is the relationship of society to the natural world?"
- Das Reich der Natur in Farben
Das Meer Resource Type: Book
- Remaking Society
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989
- Rescue the Earth!
Conversations with the Green Crusaders Resource Type: Book 14 conversations with activists and thinkers concerning the understanding and redemption of the natural world in the late twentieth century.
- Rogue Primate
An Exploration of Human Domestication Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 The first domesticated animal, according to Livingston, was neither dog nor goat, but human. Humans cut themselves adrift from the rest of the world by becoming entirely dependent on ideas. Technical ideas gave them the power to manipulate nature as well as a rationalization for their destructiveness. Now humans have drawn other animals, and even the natural world itself, into the service of their belief systems. Even our understanding of nature is informed by an ideological insistence that domination is somehow 'natural'.
- The Running Sky
A Birdwatching Life Resource Type: Book Published: 2009 A series of essays in the 'nature watching' theme, about birdwatching and the author's experiences while engaged in that pursuit.
- 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.
- Saving Graces
Sojourns of a Backyard Biologist Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Senckenbergische Naturforschungsinstitut und Naturmuseum
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Skills for Simple Living
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Special Places
The Changing Ecosystems of the Toronto Region Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Special Places explores the changing ecosystem of the Toronto area over the past century, looking at the environmental conditions that influence the whol region and at the surprising range of plants and animals you can find in many of its natural spaces.
- Spring sprung, grass riz, wonder where birdies is
Resource Type: Article Published: 1977 Some days, when you go outside, an icy wind sneaks up on you and quickly tears away your warm illusions about winter being over. This, you think, shivering, is supposed to be spring? Still, whether we're ready to believe it or not, spring is upon us, and if we go out and look for it, we'll come across signs that establish that fact much more firmly and decisively than the passing moods of the weather.
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book Published: 1963 A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Televison's Profound Impact on Nature
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989
- Tiere erlebt und belauscht
Resource Type: Book
- Toronto Ravines - Ours to Preserve
Resource Type: Article Published: 1982 Toronto's ravines are a treasure; it's up to us to preserve them.
- Toronto Rocks
The Geological Legacy of the Toronto Region Resource Type: Book Published: 1998 Toronto’s urban geology.
- Toronto The Wild
Field Notes of an Urban Naturalist Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Toronto as a natural world and and ecosystem.
- Toronto's Ravines
Walking the Hidden Country Resource Type: Book Published: 2000
- Trees in Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1995
- Trees of Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 2001
- The Urban Landscape
A Study of Open Space in Urban Metropolitan Areas Resource Type: Article Published: 1971
- Urban Natural Areas
Resource Type: Book
- Urbanization Without Cities
The Rise and Decline of Citizenship Resource Type: Book The author argues that there should be participatory democracy so there could be balance ecologically between city and country.
- Waiting for Aphrodite
Resource Type: Book Published: 1999
- Weeds of Canada
Resource Type: Book Published: 1970
- Wetland Plants of Ontario
Resource Type: Book Published: 1997
- Why the zoo shot its tigers
Resource Type: Article A discussion of the practice of - and motivation behind - culling and conservation in the one of the worlds foremost science and conservation zoological facilities, the London Zoo.
- Wildflowers of North America
A Guide to Field Identification Resource Type: Book Published: 1984
- Wolfshatz und Adlerfang
Resource Type: Book
- The World Without Us
Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
- The Year of the Turtle
A Natural History Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 An account of one year of observing turtles in a New England locality.
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