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- 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.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
Published: 1977
- Coal in Our Blood
200 Years of coal mining in Nova Scotia's Pictou County
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1992
An account of the coal mining community of Pictou County, Nova Scotia.
- Coal plant threatens world's largest mangrove forest - and Bangladesh's future
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2015
As COP21 reaches its endgame, there are plans to build 2,440 coal-fired power plants around the worl. Their completion would send global temperatures, and sea levels, soaring. Yet Bangladesh, the world's most 'climate vulnerable' large country, has plans for a 1.3GW coal power plant on the fringes of its World Heritage coastal wetlands.
- 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.
- Greg Crowe, Mining and Commodities Expert
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- A History of Canadian Wealth
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1972
Myers lays bare the corruption, swindling, land deals, and bribery that are at the basis of Canadian history. This is Canada's past seen through the eyes of a muckraker.
- The Labor Wars
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1974
A survey of landmark events in the U.S. labour movement.
- The Mining Association of Canada
Media Profile in Sources
Resource Type: Organization
- Mortgaging the Earth
The World Bank, Environmental Impoverishment and the Crisis of Development
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1994
Rich provides a history of the bank particularly between 1968 and 1981 with respect to a lack of accountability and increased pressure to lend.
- The Never-Ending Curse of Coal
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2019
Last week Murray Energy, one of the largest coal mining corporations in the nation, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. That makes it the fifth coal company to do so in the last year.
- The Road to Wigan Pier
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1937
George Orwell's investigation of an English working class community in the 1930s.
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1981
- Technics and Civilization
Resource Type: Book
Published: 1963
A history of the machine and a critical study of its effects on civilization.
- Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
Resource Type: Article
Published: 2016
When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
- What Every Environmentalist Needs To Know about Capitalism
A Citizen's Guide to Capitalism and the Environment
Resource Type: Book
Published: 2011
A manifesto for those environmentalists who reject schemes of “green capitalism” or piecemeal reform. Magdoff and Foster argue that efforts to reform capitalism along environmental lines or rely solely on new technology to avert catastrophe misses the point. The main cause of the looming environmental disaster is the driving logic of the system itself, and those in power — no matter how “green” — are incapable of making the changes that are necessary.
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