- Abandon Affluence
Resource Type: Book
This work reviews the most recent evidence on major global problems, examining resource and energy scarcity, environmental destruction, Third World underdevelopment, international conflict, and the deteriorating quality of life. The author argues these problems are ultimately generated by the West's commitment to affluence and growth inherent in its economic system. Only fundamental social change, not technical solutions, can provide the solution.
- The ABCs of the Economic Crisis
What Working People Need to Know
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2009
Rich, powerful people created the economic crisis of 2008-09, while hundreds of millions of working people suffer the consequences -- lost homes, lost jobs, rising insecurity, and falling living standards. How could this happen?
- An Anti-Capitalist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2003
An extended argument about what the anti-capitalist movement should stand for.
- Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
In November 2014, cellulosic biofuel company KiOR filed for bankruptcy, having shut down their refinery in Columbus, Mississippi earlier that year. There have been many unsuccessful biofuel ventures of this type, but KiOR's stands out for several reasons.
- Blueprint for a Green Economy
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
- Breakfast of Biodiversity
The Truth About Rain Forest Destruction
Resource Type: Book
- Cathy's Crawly Composters
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Author, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Cohousing and Sustainabliity
Resource Type: Article
How co-housing promotes social, economic and ecological sustainability.
- 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 Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1990
- Creating an Ecological Society
Toward a Revolutionary Transformation
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2017
Because it aims squarely at replacing capitalism with an ecologically sound and socially just society, Creating an Ecological Society is filled with revolutionary hope. Fred Magdoff and Chris Williams, who have devoted their lives to activism, Marxist analysis, and ecological science, provide informed, fascinating accounts of how a new world can be created from the ashes of the old.
- Crossing a chasm slowly, in ten small steps? Sustainable living demands big changes
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
A call to re-engineer our infrastructure, re-imagine society and re-think the ways we live for disruptive, transformative change - rather than tinkering at the margins of 'normality'. Transitioning to sustainability will require profound changes in our everyday ways of living, particularly in westernised countries. It requires changes that are much more significant than simply doing the things that we currently do, but more efficiently.
- Deep Ecology
Living as if Nature Mattered
Resource Type: Book
- The Earthscan Action Handbook
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1990
A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
- 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.
- For Our Common Future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Most Canadians seem brainwashed by two myths: (1) Work is scarce; not enough work for everyone; and (2) Money is scarce; Canada cannot afford full employment.
- From the Editor: Green Living
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
To satiate North America's addiction to high energy consumption, the popular solution is war.
- Global Imperative
Harmonizing Culture and Nature
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
- The Great Turning
From Empire to Earth Community
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2006
- A Green City Program
For San Francisco Bay Area Cities & Towns
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
Ideas for green, sustainable cities.
- The Growth Illusion
How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1999
Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
- Inhance Mutual Funds
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Investing in a Sustainable Future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1991
The Cerro Gordo community.
- Let's Stop Kidding Ourselves About the NDP
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
Canadian socialists are terribly reluctant to give up their illusions about the NDP.
- 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.
- Local Places In the Age of the Global City
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1996
The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
- Mud, Mud
The Potential of Earth-based Materials for Third World Housing
Resource Type: Book
Mud is the most widely used building material in the world, yet it is almost invariably ignored by governments, development banks and aid agencies. In the Third World, virtually all houses are far below the most minimal standards of health and hygiene. Today, mud perhaps offers the only practical prospect for building the five hundred million houses which will be needed in the next twenty years.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2014
This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth – to trace its history and understand why it has become so unchallengeable and powerful.
- The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2001
Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
- One Palestinian Man's Mission to Make Urban Agriculture More Sustainable
Resource Type: Film/Video
Published: 2017
Video that introduces Said Salim Abu Naser, a proponent of sustainable agriculture living and working in Gaza City, Palestine, along the Mediterranean Coast.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - March 26, 2015
Sustainability, ecology, and agriculture
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
This issue features a number of items related to sustainability, ecology, and agriculture, including Vandana Shiva's article "Small is the New Big," the Council of Canadians' new report on water issues, "Blue Betrayal," the film "The Future of Food," the Independent Science News website, which focuses on the science of food and agriculture, and the memoir "Journey of an Unrepentant Socialist" by Brewster Kneen, a former farmer and long-time critic of corporate agriculture.
- Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - September 24, 2015
Voter Suppression
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 2015
Featuring information and articles related to the October 19, 2015 Canadian election. The topic of the week is Voter Suppression, with articles about voter suppression in Canada and the United States.
- Our Common Future
A Reader's Guide
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1987
Explains the concept of sustainable development, presses the necessity of a more equitable international economic system, and lays bare the links between trade, environment, and development.
- Our Common Future: A Reader's Guide
The Brundtland Report Explained
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1989
This beautifully illustrated work is a readable account of the world's development issues, as culled from the "Brundtland Report". The message that new sources of money must be found to support the pursuit of sustainable development becomes much more digestable through the beautiful photographs.
- Regeneration
Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City
Resource Type: Book
- Sharing as our common cause
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2014
A call for sharing underpins many existing initiatives for social justice, environmental stewardship, true democracy and global peace. On this basis, STWR argues that sharing should be more widely promoted as a common cause that can help connect civil society organisations and social movements under a united call for change.
- Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
Sources News Release
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2009
Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com.
- Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1991
- Stoves and Trees
Resource Type: Book
Stoves and Trees examines wood stoves and shows how people buy, collect and use wood in the Third World. It finds that while most forests are cleared to supply farmland, not fuelwood, stoves can make dwellings safer and healthier for women and their families.
- The Suburban Nation
The Rise of Sprawl and the Decline of the American Dream
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2000
The choice is ours: either a society of homogeneous pieces, isolated from one another in often fortified enclaves, or a society of diverse and memorable neighbourhoods, organized into mutually supportive towns, cities and regions.
- Sustainable Development Experts and Information in the Sources Directory
Resource Type: Website
- 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.
- War on the seabed: the shellfishing battle
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2013
In the fertile inshore waters of the west coast of Scotland, a battle is brewing between small-boat fisherman and industrial trawlers.
- What Do We Do Now? Building a Social Movement in the Aftermath of Free Trade
Resource Type: Article
Published: 1989
We have the potential to create a social movement in this country that goes beyond single-issue organizing to work toward an integrated vision of a more just and caring society.
- Whole Earth Discipline
An Ecopragmatist Manifesto
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2010
Brand's solution to tackling global warming is dense cities, nuclear power, GMO crops -- these are pragmatic solutions, using innovation to maximize efficiency. They will require environmentalists to accept risks and compromises.
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