- 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.
- Aga Khan Foundation Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- Bikes vs Cars
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2015 Bikes vs Cars is a documentary about the bike and what an amazing tool for change it can be. It highlights a conflict in city planning between bikes, cars and a growing reliance on fossil fuels.
- Building the Green Movement
Resource Type: Book Rudolf Bahro has emerged from the West German Green Party as a political and social thinker with substantial international influence. In Building the Green Movement, he sets forth his views on North-South relations, the peace movement, his increasing disaffection with parliamentary politics, his ideas on the renewal of communities, and his insistence on the need for spiritual resurgence.
- 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.
- 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.
- Canadian Institute of Resources Law
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Polar Commission
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Canadian Wildlife Federation
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
- Connexions Digest
Volume 12, Number 2 - Issue 48 - Winter 1988-89 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1989
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- COP21, Paris: 'Another world is possible, necessary and urgent'
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The greatest danger of the Paris conference is that the global South will be bullied into to accepting a terrible deal rather than leave with none at all. That gives civil society an essential role - to support the resistance of developing country representatives inside the summit to an unjust and ineffective agreement imposed on them by the rich, powerful, high-emitting nations.
- Corporate money preventing all-out campaign to stop global warming
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Highly-regarded former Toronto Mayor David Miller says he is "very excited" about becoming the new President and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund-Canada in September. But there are questions about whether the WWF is effective in its work and, moreover, why the WWF and other members of the global environmental movement have made such little progress combatting the most serious threat to earth - climate change.
- CUSO-VSO
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Debt and the Environment
Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- 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.
- Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900 Resource Type: Book
- 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.
- 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.
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Hungry for Climate Leadership - Day 9 of Fast for Climate Justice on the Hill
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 It's Day 9 and the Fasters are hungry, but determined to convey the urgency of the crisis to our elected officials and asks them to end fossil fuel subsidies, put a price on carbon and develop a National Renewable Energy Plan.
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC)
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Saving the Tropical Forests
Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 The book provides a vision of hope for the tropical rainforests of the world. In Latin America, Africa, India and South East Asia, growing numbers of people are developing techniques and projects specifically designed to promote the wise use and preservation of remaining forest lands. The authors believe that action must be based on the development and improvement of existing alternatives to destruction or it will fail.
- Slamming the World Bank and IMF
Resource Type: Article Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1997
- Sources welcomes Canadian Voice of Women for Peace
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Sources welcomes a new member: Canadian Voice of Women for Peace, a non-partisan Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) comprised of a network of diverse women with consultative status at the United Nations ECOSOC.
- Stantec Inc.
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- The State of the World Atlas
Resource Type: Book Published: 1981
- 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.
- This Changes Everything
Resource Type: Film/Video Published: 2015 Directed by Avi Lewis, and inspired by Naomi Kleins book This Changes Everything, the film presents portraits of communities on the front lines, from Montanas 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 Kleins 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.
- The Vanishing Forest
Resource Type: Book While loggers, ranchers, road and dam builders destroy forests for short-term gains, the world is losing what could be its long-term economic base. Deforestation threatens irreversible climatic changes and the loss of gene pools. Not an ecological treatise, this report focuses on the suffering endured by the people immediately dependent on dwindling forest land and how this process is affecting their health and livelihood.
- Waterlogged Wealth
Resource Type: Book The traditional response to swamps, marshes and bogs has been to drain them. But wetlands are not wastelands. Coastal marshes are among the world's most productive ecosystems. Maltby examines the value of swamps and marshes, as well as the threats against them, showing how short-sighted this approach is and indicating that positive alternatives are available.
- What a Way to Treat Your Mother: Women and the State of the Planet
Resource Type: Article Published: 1991 Our planet is in crisis.
- 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.
- World Resources 1992-93
A Guide to the Global Environment Resource Type: Book Published: 1992
- The World Trade Organization
A Citizen's Guide Resource Type: Book Published: 1999 Shrybman argues that the WTO not only aggravates envrionmental and social problems, but takes away the tools that governments need to address them.
- WWF -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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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