1. Air pollution may be damaging children's brains - before they are even born
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   Aside causing respiratory and cardiovascular damage, air pollution has also an impact on the brains and nervous systems of unborn children whose mothers suffer high levels of exposure.
2. Alien Invasion
   How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 2001
   An examination of the devasting results of seven years of social and economic destruction inflicted the by the right-wing fanatics who ruled Ontario under the premiership of Mike Harris.
3. Blueprint for a Green Economy
   Resource Type: Book
   Published: 1989
   A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
4. The Canada Metals story: A chronology
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 1980
   The ongoing struggle against lead pollution in South Riverdale.
5. Canada's Toxic Chemical Valley
   Resource Type: Article
   Published: 2015
   About the effects of "Chemical Valley" in the Aamjiwnaang-Sarnia area.
6. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
   A Guide to Selected Resources
   Resource Type: Article
   
7. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Pilot Copy, February 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
8. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1976
   
9. Canadian Information Sharing Service
   Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
   Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
   Published: 1977
   
10. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
    
11. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
12. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
13. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
    
14. Canadian Lung Association
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
15. Chevron Whistleblower Videos Show Deliberate Falsification Of Evidence In Ecuador Oil Pollution Trial
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Chevron lost the lawsuit filed against the company by Indigenous villagers who say Texaco, which merged with Chevron, left hundreds of open, unlined pits full of toxic oil waste in the Amazon rainforest. Nevertheless, the company attempts to retry the case.
    
16. Chevron Wins Latest Round in Ecuador Pollution Case
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In the latest twist in a 21-year-old environmental pollution case, a U.S. federal judge Tuesday ruled that the victims of massive oil spillage and their U.S. attorney could not collect on a nine-billion-dollar judgement by Ecuador’s supreme court against the Chevron Corporation.
17. China: Mass protests challenge polluters
    Resistance to rapid industrialization by poisonous industries led to pitched battles between residents and police in many cities
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    In spite of a media blackout, protests in the Chinese city of Maoming against a PX (paraxylene) plant have proceeded for the past week. In March 2014 a thousand citizens took to the streets in protest, followed a few days later by 20,000 occupying the area around the government building.
18. Chinese authorities must come clean on air pollution film ban
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the decision by the Cyberspace Administrative and Central Propaganda Department of China to ban the online documentary Under the Dome and the closing down of a number of websites.
19. The Citizen's Guide to Lead: Uncovering a Health Hazard
    Resource Type: Book
    
20. A Citizens' Streambank Restoration Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    
21. The City in History
    Its Origins, Its Transformations, and Its Prospects
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1961
    Beginning with an interpretation of the origin and nature of the city, Mumford follows the city's development from Egypt and Mesopotamia through Greece, Rome, and the Middle Ages to the modern world.
22. The Closing Circle
    Man, Technology & the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1971
    Commoner argues that economic life must be structured to conform to the principles of ecology, as opposed to the goal of unlimited growth that underpins capitalist economies.
23. Coal companies trying to revive 'zombie' open cast mines in Wales
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A tangle of undercapitalised companies are coming forward to cash in on old deep coal mines in Wales - by digging them all out from above from huge open cast pits. But local communities, alarmed at the noise, pollution and destruction of landscape, increasingly see coal as an industry that's best consigned to the scrapheap.
24. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
    
25. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
    
26. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
    
27. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
    
28. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
    
29. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
30. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
    
31. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
32. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
    
33. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
34. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
    
35. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
    
36. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
    
37. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
38. Coughing up coal
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2014
    India is rivaling China -- in its plans to consume coal. India is aggressively expanding construction of coal fired power plants to meet growing energy needs. Emissions from coal power plants were linked to 80,000 - 150,000 premature deaths in India between 2011 and 2012 alone and to a wide range of diseases from cancers, to respiratory and cardiovascular disorders. Singrauli -- an industrial hub in north central India -- embodies the tragic human toll that a largely unregulated coal industry can extract.
39. Dirty Water, Dirtier Practices
    Ecuador's Battle with Texaco's Legacy Pollution
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Texaco (now owned by Chevron) left polluted soil and ground water after 20 years of oil extraction in the Amazon in Ecuador. The legal claims and counter-claims over responsibility and reparation continue.
40. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
41. The Everyday Activist
    365 Ways to Change the World
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A positive, practical guide to healing the world - one day at a time. Packed with ideas and facts from leading campaign organizations, this handbook shows how the smallest actions can make a difference to your community and in the wider world.
42. Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Throughout Exxon’s global operations, the company knew that CO2 was a harmful pollutant in the atmosphere years earlier than previously reported. Exxon corporate documents from the late 1970s state unequivocally "there is no doubt" that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels was a growing "problem" well understood within the company.
43. Fear of the light: why we need darkness
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Light pollution conceals true darkness from 80% of Europe and North America. What do we lose when we can no longer see the stars?
44. Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
45. Flak
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 1976
    Made when the director was 16, Flak is an improvised political drama about a group of young men living next door to a polluting factory, which they want to do something about. Influences include Michelangelo Antonioni's The Red Desert, John Cassavetes's Shadows and Robert Kramer's Ice. The film features four of Mann's older friends in a story about political talk and apathy. The Hot Docs screening is the film's first in 30 years.
46. Food for Wealth or Health
    Towards Equality in Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    
47. Fracking kills newborn babies - polluted water likely cause
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A new study in Pennsylvania, USA shows that fracking is strongly related to increased mortality in young babies. The effect is most pronounced in counties with many drinking water wells indicating that contamination by 'produced water' from fracking is a likely cause. Radioactive pollution with uranium, thorium and radium is a 'plausible explanation' for the excess deaths.
48. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Weller takes readers on a tour of the Great Lakes region, tracing its natural history from the time before human habitation. He describes how the region has been affected by uncontrolled development to the point where it now contains one of the planet's most intensive concentrations of industrial and agricultural activity.
49. GE's PCBs: Who Will Tell the Fish
    Against The Current vol. 99
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2002
    Against prevailing scientific wisdom, an August 2001 General Electric press release declares that "there is no credible evidence that PCB exposure causes disease in people."
50. Get a Life!
    How to make a good buck dance around the dinosaurs and save the world while you're at it
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    Simultaneoulsy a textbook on new careers and lifestyles for aspiring entrepreneurs and a strategy for social, economic and environmental renewal.
51. The Great Lakes Primer
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An introduction to the environmental problems faced by the Great Lakes.
52. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
53. Guadeloupe and Martinique threatened as pesticide contaminates food chain
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    Chemical once used on banana crops threatening livelihoods and public health by polluting soil and sea.
54. Hungry City: How Food Shapes Our Lives
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Hungry City details the transformation of the food industry and it's not so benevolent impact on humanity. Obesity, diabetes and heart disease are the by-products of a system that is characterized by over consumption in one part of the world and starvation in others. Output and the complex international infrastructure that supports are controlled by profit. Steel also documents how production of food is controlled by fewer companies accountable to no one but themselves. Her examples include the following: 90% of milk in the United States comes from one breed of cow; the same proportion of commercial eggs from a single breed of hen; British supermarkets have reduced the 2000 varieties of apples down to two. The food chain becomes vulnerable to disease, contamination or terrorism. As well as a guide to the the history of the food chain from farm to plate to landfill it is also a warning on the waste and destruction of our current food systems.
55. In China's Inner Mongolia, mining spells misery for traditional herders
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    China's relentless drive for minerals is wreaking havoc on pastoral lifestyles.
56. In search of the unseen: an investigation into plastics in our oceans
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    One of the biggest threats facing marine life is the 'microplastic' particles found in ocean ecosystems from bottom to top of food chains. Just back from a voyage of environmental exploration in the tropical Atlantic sampling the waters to build up a global picture of this ubiquitous pollutant, Ana Stanic writes of the joys and trials of life on the waves, and the need to keep our oceans clean.
57. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    The technology used in Canada's tar sands will be used to open up other potential oil deposits that could more than double all know oil reserves. The disaster threatens to keep expanding.
58. Lakehead University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
59. Lead poisoning - fighting industrial pollution in Kenya is a dangerous business
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    Lead poisoning from industrial pollution has imposed a terrible toll on Kenyans, and single mother Phyllis Omido is no exception -- lead from a nearby metal refinery badly damaged her own son's health. But it was when she decided to fight back against the polluters that a whole new realm of threats and dangers opened up.
60. Life in Lakes and Rivers
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1972
    
61. Mercury Poisoning
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1976
    Quaker involvement with the issue of mercury poisoning at White Dog and Grassy Narrows Reserves.
62. Native pollution nightmare
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1992
    
63. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    
64. Our transportation future
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1990
    The billions of dollars proposed to be spent on roads would be better invested in electrifying the main rail lines in Canada.
65. Pentagon's War on the Earth
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    We are waging war. We are the Nation of War. We destroy. We kill. Everyone fears us. Fewer and fewer admire us. But our fighting forces -- and their attendant industries which manufacture the bombs, bullets, and ballistic delivery devices -- also wage a war on the clean air, clean water, and clean soil many Americans falsely regard as protected by legislation fought for by those trying to protect our environment.
66. Poisoned Skies
    Who'll Stop Acid Rain?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
67. Poisoners of the Seas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    
68. Poisons in Public
    Case Studies of Environmental Pollution in Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1980
    
69. The Political Economy of Health
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1889
    
70. 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.
71. Resistance in China Today
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    Cases of Resistance in China continue to grow. Protests both large and small are extremely frequent. These range from workers’ protests against unpaid wages and demands for labor rights to protests against corrupt officials and environmental abuses. While these struggles have often been brought to a swift end through repression, they have also frequently led to protestors being granted concessions.
72. Seven News
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1970
    Seven News (7 News) was a community newspaper published in the area of Toronto east of downtown which at the time was known as Ward 7. Seven News was published from 1970 to 1985. Seven News is no longer publishing, but all issues of the paper have been scanned and are available on the Connexions website.
    Ward 7 covered the area of Toronto east of downtown, from Sherbourne Street to Logan Avenue, south of Bloor-Danforth, including Don Vale, Cabbagetown, Regent Park, Riverdale, St. Jamestown.
73. Simon Fraser University
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
74. The State of the World Atlas
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    
75. Technics and Civilization
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1963
    A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
76. This Changes Everything
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2015
    Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Klein’s book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montana’s Powder River Basin to the Alberta Tar Sands, from the coast of South India to Beijing and beyond. Interwoven with these stories of struggle is Klein’s narration, connecting the carbon in the air with the economic system that put it there. Klein suggests that we can seize the existential crisis of climate change to transform our failed economic system into something radically better.
77. Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    
78. Transport Action Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
79. Under the Dome
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2015
    A self-financed Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China. It is narrated by Chai, who presents the results of her year-long research mostly in the form of a lecture.
80. University of Waterloo
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
    
81. World Out of Balance
    Our Polluted Planet
    Resource Type: Book
    The author gives a history of environmental damage and describes present and future solutions. The book is aimed at the general reader.
82. 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.
    
83. The worst polluters in the U.S. for 1988
    Resource Type: Article
    

Experts on Pollution in the Sources Directory

1. International Maritime Organization