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  1. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    More than 500 university faculty members from universities across Canada signed a letter to the Canadian Government calling for immediate drastic reductions in greenhouse gas emissions. The letter points out the time frame of reductions is critical.
  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. Alternative Economic Indicators
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Anderson outlines out a new conceptual framework for economics which gives attention to enviromentalism and social indicators as well as financial ones.

  4. Animal Alliance of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  5. Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
    Resource Type: Book
  6. Automotive Industries Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  7. Beyond Homelessness
    Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
    Beyond Homelessness looks at the socioeconomic, ecological and spiritual dimensions of homelessness. Going further than seeing housing as being bricks and mortar the authors see it as a search for belonging, identity and security. They argue that if we see the world as holy instead of earth as home and we understand the Gospels, faith will heal the disharmony in which we have mired ourselves.
  8. Beyond Interdependence
    The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  9. 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.
  10. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
  11. Canada and the State of the Planet
    The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1997
  12. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Here I am, watching the astonishing spectacle of a beautiful, cultured nation turning itself into a corrupt petro-state. Canada is slipping down the development ladder, retreating from a complex, diverse economy towards dependence on a single primary resource, which happens to be the dirtiest commodity known to man. The price of this transition is the brutalisation of the country, and a government campaign against multilateralism as savage as any waged by George Bush. Until now I believed that the nation that has done most to sabotage a new climate change agreement was the United States. I was wrong. The real villain is Canada.
  13. Canadian Association for Laboratory Accreditation Inc. (CALA)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  14. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
    A Guide to Selected Resources

    Resource Type: Article
  15. Canadian Federation of University Women
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  16. Canadian government 'knew of plans to dump iron into the Pacific'
    Chief executive of company responsible for controversial geoengineering test implicates several departments

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2012
    As controversy mounts over the revelations that an American businessman conducted a massive ocean fertilisation test, dumping around 100 tonnes of iron sulphate off Canada's coast, it has emerged the Canadian government may have known about the geoengineering scheme and not stopped it.
  17. Canadian Industrial Transportation Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  18. 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.
  19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  20. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1976
  21. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 5 - January 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  22. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  24. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  25. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 1 - February 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  26. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 2 - April 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  27. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  28. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  29. Canadian Organic Growers Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  30. Canadian Polar Commission
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  31. Canadian Wildlife Federation
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  32. Car Care Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  33. Changing Perspectives
    Annual Report of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario 1999/2000

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2000
  34. Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Author, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  35. Citizens for Public Justice
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  36. 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.
  37. ClimateFast
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
    ClimateFast is a group of dedicated climate activists, deeply concerned about worsening climate change. Our aim is to draw the public's attention to the crisis, and by fasting and public pledges to press our politicians into action NOW to confront this greatest threat to our children's future.
  38. The Climates of Canada
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  39. 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.
  40. Commuto Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  41. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1978
  42. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 2 - March 1979 - Native Rights/Les Droits des Autochtones

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  43. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  44. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 2 - May 1980 - Women/Femmes

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  45. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 4 - October 1980 - Health/Sante

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1980
  46. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 5 - January 1981 - Militarism/Militarisme

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  47. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  48. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  49. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  50. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1982
  51. Connexions
    Volume 8, Number 1 - Spring 1983 - Women and Men

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1983
  52. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 1 - Spring 1984 - Energy - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1984
  53. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1987
  54. Connexions Annual 1989
    A Social Change Sourcebook: Information and ideas about social and environmental alternatives

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
  55. 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.
  56. Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1994
    As we witness an apparently unending succession of environmental hazards and catastrophes, awareness is spreading that we are in the midst of a profound ecological crisis. There is still hope for reversing the trend toward environmental collapse, but only if we are able to work together worldwide to achieve profound changes.
  57. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1988
  58. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook

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

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

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

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

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1992
  64. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  65. Conservation Ontario
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  66. CSA Group
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  67. Debt and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  68. Defending the Earth
    A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    A renowned political theorist faces off against a direct-action activist to discuss: What is the connection between theory and activism? What is the role of sabotage in creating social change? How can human beings fit into a stable ecosystem?
  69. Des jeunes participent à une occupation pacifique pour la justice climatique à l'intérieur du Comité sur l'Environement de la Chambre des Communes
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Six jeunes ont entrepris une occupation pacifique à l'intrieur du Parlement canadien, à
    l'occasion d'une rencontre du Comité permanent de l'environnement et du
    développement durable dans l'édifice du centre.
  70. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
  71. Directory of Environmental Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1981
    Comprehensive environmental listsings. Mostly Southern California, but also lists national and international environmental conservation and ecological organizations. In addition to the alphabetically organized environmental listings, media and print
  72. Directory of Environmental Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  73. Earth Day Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  74. Ecological Imperialism
    The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900

    Resource Type: Book
  75. Economics for Everyone
    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2008
  76. Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2006
    Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
  77. Environment 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 environment in the Sources directory for the media.
  78. Environment: Ulli Diemer - Selected snippets & quotes from Radical Digressions
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2018
  79. Environmental history - Timeline of environmental history - Wikipedia
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    The timeline lists geological, astronomical, and climatological events in relation to events in human history which they influenced.
  80. Environmental movement
    Connexipedia Article

    Resource Type: Article
    Term that includes the conservation and green movements, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.
  81. Environmental Resource Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  82. Environmental Resource Book
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  83. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    Published: 2017
    Web portal with information about environmental issues and resources, with articles, documents, books, websites, and experts and spokespersons. The home page features a selection of recent and important articles. A search feature, subject index, and other research tools make it possible to find additional resources and information.
  84. Europe's Green Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
  85. Federation Metro Toronto Tenants' Associations
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  86. Fisheries and Oceans Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  87. For the Common Good
    Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1989
    The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
  88. 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.
  89. The Gaia Atlas of Cities
    New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  90. The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
    Entries on indigenous peoples from around the globe, focusing on three main areas: their way of life, the present crisis, and the future.
  91. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  92. Global Imperative
    Harmonizing Culture and Nature

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  93. Global Militarism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 1991
    The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
  94. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
  95. Goodmans LLP
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  96. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
  97. The Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  98. Green Future
    How to Make a World of Difference

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  99. 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.
  100. Greenhouse Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  101. Greenwash
    The Reality Behind Corporate Environmentalism

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
  102. Handbook of the Canadian Environmental Network
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  103. How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    Bond argues that bureaucrats, multinationals and banks lack the compassion and commitement to help farmers, consumers and the enviromment, and emerging nations of the South.
  104. Human Activity and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1986
  105. The Human Future Revisited
    The World Predicament and Possible Solutions

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1978
  106. Human nature
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
  107. The Hutchinson Pocket Factfinder
    Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    This sourcebook provides topical information and core reference material on over 40 subjects.
  108. 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.
  109. Keep It Simple
    A Defense of the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author, a novelist, nature photographer, and environmental activist, gives tribute to a simpler life.
  110. 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.
  111. 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.
  112. Lore
    Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
  113. Loyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  114. Many European Pesticide Approvals Are 'unlawful' Says EU Ombudsman
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Many current pesticides in the European Union appear to have been approved illegally the Ombudsman of the EU has said. This judgment was reached on Feb 22nd by the EU Ombudsman, Emily O’Reilly, following an official complaint against the European Commission’s Directorate responsible for public health and consumer safety (DG SANTE).
  115. Town of Markham
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  116. 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.
  117. 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 Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
  118. MiningWatch Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  119. The Monkey Wrench Gang
    Resource Type: Book
  120. 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.
  121. National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  122. National Union of Public and General Employees
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  123. Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC)
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  124. Nature Conservancy of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  125. New Internationalist
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    New Internationalist reports on issues of world poverty and inequality. We focus attention on the unjust relationship between the powerful and the powerless worldwide in the fight for global justice.
  126. The New Protectionism
    Protecting the Future Against Free Trade

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1994
    This book analyses the powers behind the free trade argument to present an outline of what a viable and more just future could be.
  127. No Right-Of-Way
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    The author tells the story of a small group of determined agriculturalists and environmentalists who took on industry, government and the courts for the rights of farmers to protect their land and the environment.
  128. Ontario Farm Animal Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  129. An Open Letter To Congress From US Scientists On Climate Change And Recently Stolen Emails
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    As U.S. scientists with substantial expertise on climate change and its impacts on natural ecosystems, our built environment and human well-being, we want to assure policy makers and the public of the integrity of the underlying scientific research.
  130. Organic Trade Association
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  131. Our Generation
    Volume 9 number 1

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1973
  132. Our Generation
    Volume 10 Number 3

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1974
  133. Our Stolen Future
    Are We Threatening Our Fertility, Intelligence, and Survival? A Scientific Detective Story

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1996
    The authors reveal in this work that chemicals in the environment have affected human reproductive patterns in a way that may threaten the survival of the species.
  134. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
  135. Peace Parks
    Conservation and Conflict Resolution

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2007
  136. 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.
  137. 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2013
    With humanity's huge impact on the planet's climate becoming ever clearer, the claim of 'history in the making' is truly deserved.
  138. Plenty of work to do, but still lots to be thankful for!
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    As Thanksgiving approaches and we gather with friends and family for the annual feast, we recognize in our lives that there are a number of things we can and should be thankful for.
  139. Poison Spring
    The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2014
    Vallianatos and Jenkins, after a 25-year stint at the Environmental Protection Agency, pull back the curtain on the watchdog agency's failure to guard public safety and monitor land use due to steady erosion of its enforcement practices.
  140. 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.
  141. The Politics of Pachamama
    Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    While many economies and citizens have benefitted from the state’s larger involvement in the extraction of these resources, extractivism under progressive governments, as it had under neoliberalism, still displaces rural communities, poisons water sources, kills the soil, and undermines indigenous territorial autonomy.
  142. Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
    Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1995
    This work looks at the problem of overpoplulation and the environment.
  143. The Poverty of Power
    Energy and the Economic Crisis

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1976
    Commoner argues that the environmental, energy, and economic crises are interconnected. The industries that use the most energy have the highest negative impact on the environment; the focus on non-renewable resources as sources of energy means those resources are growing scarce, thus pushing up the price of energy and hurting the economy. These problems can ultimately be addressed only by replacing capitalism with socialism.
  144. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Essays arguing for the devolution of government and putting forward workdable models, many of them tested in practice, of how we might restructure society to better represent the full diversity of its parts. Watershed stewartship, community forest boards, local currencies, and eco-constitutions are some of the ideas discussed.
  145. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1993
    Cars destroy the environment; people should embrace alternative modes of transportation like bycycling and walking to make urban areas safer and enviromentally sound.
  146. 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.
  147. 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.
  148. Saving the Oceans
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    This collection of writings from experts from around the world examines how the oceans are necessary to life on Eath, and what is being done by scientists and environmentalists to save them.
  149. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2004
    If the population growth, consumption of resources, and technological advances continue according to the trend of the twentieth century, at the expense of the earth, the outcome may be disastrous.
  150. Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  151. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1993
  152. Sources Select Environment Experts
    Spokespersons, Experts, and Resources

    Resource Type: Website
    Envioronment experts available to take media calls about their area of expertise.
  153. 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.
  154. Sources welcomes Commuto Inc.
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    Commuto is an online social bartering network where members trade in person with other members in their cities, schools, workplaces or any other communities they create.
  155. Sources welcomes the Federation of Metro Tenants' Associations
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    We are the largest and oldest Tenant organization in Canada. Our mission is to improve the lives of residential tenants through organizing outreach, education and advocacy.
  156. Spirit of the Wolf
    The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1991
  157. Stantec Inc.
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  158. State-of-the-Art Science & Environment College Takes Root
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    The University of Winnipeg's new state-of-the-art college for the environment and science will bring together researchers, faculty and students to work towards effective global stewardship. Construction is underway.
  159. 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.
  160. 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.
  161. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  162. Transport Action Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  163. Transportation Association of Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  164. Vital Signs
    The Trends that are Shaping Our Future

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
    Worldwatch Institute charts coming trends using a straightforward format. Areas addressed include military expenditures and cigarette consumption.
  165. The Wheatgrass Mechanism
    Science and Imagination in the Western Canadian Landscape

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1990
  166. Wilfrid Laurier University
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  167. World at Gunpoint
    Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Global warming (or global climate catastrophe, as some rightly call it), as terrifying as it is, isn't first and foremost a threat. It's a consequence. we'll have a better chance of succeeding if we recognize it as a predictable (at this point) result of burning oil and gas, of deforestation, of dam construction, of industrial agriculture, and so on. The real threat is all of these.
  168. 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.
  169. World Resources 1992-93
    A Guide to the Global Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1992
  170. 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.
  171. WWF -- Canada
    Media Profile in Sources

    Resource Type: Organization
  172. Youth Stage Peaceful Sit-in for Climate Justice inside House of Common's Environment Committee
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2009
    Six youth staged a peaceful sit-in inside the Canadian parliament, at a meeting of the Standing Committee on Environment and Sustainable Development, pledging to stay until the Harper government acts to combat the climate crisis.

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