- 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.
- Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
Sky Grab Resource Type: Article Published: 2012 Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
- The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
How You Can Help Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1977
- Changing minds on a changing climate
What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds? Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
- Changing Perspectives
Annual Report of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario 1999/2000 Resource Type: Article Published: 2000
- 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.
- Community groups and First Nations demand the shutdown of Enbridge's Line 9
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 More than 80 organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted indigenous communities, as well as national organizations have released a statement letter to the Prime Minister condemning the recent National Energy Board (NEB) approval of Line 9
- Connexions
Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1979
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- Connexions
Volume 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1982
- Connexions Digest
Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990
- Connexions Digest
Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1991
- Connexions Library: Environment Focus
Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
- Defending the Oldman River
A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth Resource Type: Audio Published: 1992 An interview with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth about the struggle to defend the Oldman River in Alberta.
- Earth Day Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Ecodefense
A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition Resource Type: Book Published: 1987
- Ecological Imperialism
The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900 Resource Type: Book
- Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
- 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.
- The Encroaching Desert
Report Resource Type: Book This new report for a top-level international Commission focuses attention on the relentless spreading of the world's deserts. This report highlights the shortcomings of the Third World countries as well as the Western donors and the multilateral agencies. It draws on information gathered in the field in all parts of the world. It points to examples of remedial action and sets out the policies required to reverse the trend before it is too late.
- 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.
- Fish habitat protection waning under Harper government, analysis finds
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A statistical analysis of the Conservative government's changes to environmental laws and procedures suggests Ottawa has "all but abandoned" attempts to protect Canada's lakes and rivers.
- Gute Argumente: Verkehr
Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
- Holding The Silent Killers Of Environmental Destruction Accountable
Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 The findings of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have 15 years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to us to make a major transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to do it without effective pressure from a people-powered movement.
- How You Can Help Make A Difference
Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
- 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.
- 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.
- Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
- Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 Marxs critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
- Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marxs and Engelss original work.
- The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
Resource Type: Article Published: 2008 I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them. Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
- Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
- 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.
- 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.
- Slamming the World Bank and IMF
Resource Type: Article Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
- 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.
- State of the Ark
An Atlas of Conservation in Action Resource Type: Book
- Stupid to the Last Drop
How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care) Resource Type: Book Published: 2008 As the world teeters on the edge of catastrophic climate change, Alberta plunges ahead with uncontrolled development of its fossil fuels, levelling its northern Boreal forest to get at the oil sands, and carpet bombing its southern half with tens of thousands of gas wells.
- 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.
- WWF -- Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
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