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  1. Appalachia Rising
    Which Side Are You On?

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On January 9, 2014, a dangerous toxin, 4-methylcyclohexane methanol, leaked from a busted tank and into the Elk River in West Virginia. It is believed that nearly 7,500 gallons of the toxin made its way from the 40,000-gallon tank into the river. This is a story too often told in Appalachia.
  2. 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.
  3. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  4. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1989
  5. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  7. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  8. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  9. DuPont May Dodge Toxic Lawsuits By Pulling a Disappearing Act
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    First DuPont spun off much of its environmental liability into a new company known as Chemours. Now the company plans to merge with Dow.
  10. 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.
  11. 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.
  12. 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."
  13. The Great Lakes Primer
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
    An introduction to the environmental problems faced by the Great Lakes.
  14. Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
  15. 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.
  16. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
  17. Israel uses Palestinian land to illegally dump toxic waste
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    Israel dumps unknown waste and military garbage in a disposal site in Kisan village, in the occupied West Bank.
  18. Legal Ruling Will Allow Rain Forest Indigenous Peoples to Pursue Chevron in Canada
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    Ontario Court of Appeal says communities of Ecuador affected by Chevron can enforce Ecuadorian rulings in Canada.
  19. Muddying the waters
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2015
    The by-products of aluminium extraction have been poisoning the Mediterranean for almost 20 years. But the closure of the plant that produces them would cost jobs in an underemployed region.
  20. The Other Mexico
    The North American Triangle Completed

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
  21. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter June 26, 2017
    Public Safety

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 2017
    The June 26, 2017 issue of Other Voices, the Connexions newsletter is about public safety.
  22. Poor West Virginia? Think Again
    Resistance in the Valley of Death

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia has once again put Appalachia on the map. This is what it usually takes. People have to not just die at the hands of the coal and chemical industry, they have to die dramatically. The long slow death spiral West Virginia has been in for over a hundred years is not news unless they do.
  23. Regeneration
    Toronto's Waterfront and the Sustainable City

    Resource Type: Book
  24. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2010
    To extract the energy from the Alberta tar sands, the world's ugliest, most expensive hydrocrabon, we are polluting our air, poisoning our water, destroying vast areas of boreal forest, and undermining democracy.
  25. Toxic dumps in Quebec
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1989
  26. When oil is more important than life
    Oil exploitation leaves trail of pollution and death in the Peruvian Amazon

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    The dumping of oil waste into the waters of the Marañón, Corrientes, Pastaza and Tigre rivers and the Amazon forest is producing fatal consequences for the local population, mostly to the Kukama ethnic group. The responsible are well-known oil companies, but the Peruvian authorities have not acted with timeliness, making them responsible as well. For years, victims have protested against pollution and violence, but the oil business has always had the upper hand.
  27. 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.

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