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  1. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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. The Age of Outrage
    Values-based Action and the positive power of public protest

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    Based on direct experience and extensive research including law enforcement reports, public opinion surveys, and ongoing scanning and anaylysis of news and Internet sources, this book reveals the six key values-symbols that trigger public fear and create political and corporate change.
  3. The Alberta Environment Directory
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
  4. Algonquins vs. Frontenac Ventures
    Against The Current vol. 134

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    I recently returned from a little-publicized “political hotbed” ignited by Frontenac Ventures Corporation (FVC), a private mining company causing grave injustices against the Ardoch First Nation community in Ontario, Canada.
  5. Alien Invasion
    How the Harris Tories Mismanaged Ontario

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  6. Alternative Economic Indicators
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    Anderson outlines out a new conceptual framework for economics which gives attention to enviromentalism and social indicators as well as financial ones.

  7. Arctic Wars, Animal Rights, Endangered People
    Resource Type: Book
  8. Beyond Homelessness
    Christian Faith in a Culture of Displacement

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  9. Beyond Interdependence
    The Meshing of the World's Economy and the Earth's Ecology

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  10. Biofuel or Biofraud? The Vast Taxpayer Cost of Failed Cellulosic and Algal Biofuels
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  11. Blueprint for a Green Economy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    A set of practical proposals for financing a sustainable environment.
  12. Canada and the State of the Planet
    The Social, Economic and Environmental Trends That Are Shaping Our Lives

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
  13. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  14. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue
    A Guide to Selected Resources

    Resource Type: Article
  15. Canadian Environmental Law Association
    Resource Type: Website
    Information on legal and policy aspects of environmental issues.
  16. Canadian Environmental Network
    Resource Type: Website
    The Canadian Environmental Network (CEN) facilitates networking between environmental organizations and others who share its mandate - To Protect The Earth And Promote Ecologically Sound Ways Of Life.
  17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
  18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 3

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
  28. The Closing Circle 
    Man, Technology & the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  29. Coalition Eau Secours quebecoise pour une gestion responsable de l'eau
    Resource Type: Website
  30. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The Connexions Annual is simultaneously a reference book and an introduction to the world of social and environmental alternatives.
  44. Connexions Annual 1994
    A Sourcebook of Social and Environmental Alternatives

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First 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.
  45. Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989   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.
  46. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook

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

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

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

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

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

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

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  53. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  54. Debt and the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  55. Defending the Earth 
    A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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?
  56. A Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2008
    Contains over 8500 entries on all aspects of the environment and conservation. Embraces a broad spectrum of environmental areas including sustainable development, biodiversity, conservation, environmental ethics, philosophy, and history, resource management, sociology, and policy on the environment.
  57. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
  58. Directory of Environmental Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  59. Earth's Life Support Systems Failing
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The world has failed to slow the accelerating extinction crisis despite 17 years of national and international efforts since the great hopes raised at the 1992 Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro.
  60. Ecological Imperialism
    The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900

    Resource Type: Book
  61. Ecologically Based Municipal Land Use Planning
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2000
  62. Economics for Everyone
    A Short Guide to the Economics of Capitalism

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

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  64. The end of oil Mired in crude
    New Internationalist June 2001

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2001
    A look into the facts of the Oil business and its effects on the places it is being harvested.
  65. 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.
  66. Environmental Journalism Home Page
    Resource Type: Website
    Good collection of annotated links to Internet environmental resources, mostly American.
  67. 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.
  68. Environmental News Network
    Resource Type: Website
    Our mission is to inform, educate, enable and create a platform for global environmental action.
  69. Environmental Organization Web Directory
    Resource Type: Website
    Directory and search engine for environmental organizations.
  70. Environmental Resource Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  71. Environmental Resource Book
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
  72. EnvironmentSources.com
    Resource Type: Website
    First 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.
  73. Europe's Green Alternative
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    The authors propose a continent of autonomous regions that are economically decentralized, feminist and underpinned by nonviolent social structures.
  74. Exploited Earth
    Britain's Aid and the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Hayter's book examines British aid policy and practice and how it effects the world's forests.
  75. For the Common Good
    Redirecting the Economy Toward Community, the Environment, and a Sustainable Future

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The authors argue that America's growth-oriented, industrial economy has led to environmental problems and propose an alternative economic paradigm.
  76. Fresh Water Seas
    Saving the Great Lakes

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  77. The Gaia Atlas of Cities
    New Directions for Sustainable Urban Living

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  78. The Gaia Atlas of First Peoples
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  79. The Gentle Subversive 
    Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    Explores the evolution of Carson's ideas about nature, her love for the sea, her career as a biologist, and above all her emergence as a writer of extraordinary moral and ecological vision.
  80. Getting Started on Social Analysis in Canada
    Third Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
    See also CX2933.
  81. Global Imperative
    Harmonizing Culture and Nature

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  82. Global Militarism and the Environment
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1991
    The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
  83. Global Thoughts, Local Actions
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 1985
    A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
  84. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth

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

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  87. A Green History of the World 
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  88. Green Ontario GreenEvents Listings
    Resource Type: Website
    This was a calendar of environment-related events. Was at http://action.web.ca/home/cco/events.shtml
  89. Greenhouse Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  90. Gulf War The Gulf in flames The real cost of Desert Storm
    New Internationalist October 1992

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
    Examining the real reasons behind the Gulf War. Was it motivated by Western oil interests? Articles on arab women, oil and arms and the aftermath of Desert Storm in the arab world.
  91. Hard Core Green
    How to Kick Corporate Butt

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
  92. How EC and World Bank Policies Are Destroying Agriculture And The Environment
    A European and Third World Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  93. The Human Future Revisited
    The World Predicament and Possible Solutions

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1978
  94. Human nature
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A review of Jason W Moore's book on world-ecology, Capitalism in the Web of Life.
  95. Impossibleism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Impossibleists want unrestrained sustainable growth in the face of its inevitable impossibility. It is a mystery how they think this way, knowing as they surely do that eventually the bill will come due, and the engine will run out of gas - literally. Think about it - growth that never stops, ever. Even with limitless resources, it is simple intuition that eventually, somewhere, sometime....
  96. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  97. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  98. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  99. Lore
    Capturing Traditional Environmental Knowledge

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1993
  100. Manufactured Landscapes
    Resource Type: Film
    First Published: 2006
    Photographer Edward Burtynsky travels the world observing changes in landscapes due to industrial work and manufacturing.
  101. Marx and Nature 
    A Red and Green Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999   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.
  102. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review 
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  103. The Monkey Wrench Gang 
    Resource Type: Book
  104. National Working Group on Energy and the Environment
    Organization profile published 1984 (Spring)

    Resource Type: Organization
    First Published: 1984
    Inactive/Defunct Organization
  105. The New Protectionism
    Protecting the Future Against Free Trade

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  106. No Right-Of-Way
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  107. Oeko-Institut
    Resource Type: Website
    German institute dealing with environmental issues including transportation and climate change.
  108. Our Generation
    Volume 9 number 1

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

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

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  111. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First 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.
  112. Peace Parks
    Conservation and Conflict Resolution

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
  113. Pentagon's War on the Earth
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  114. 'The Planet Can't Keep Doing Us A Favour'
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  115. Poison Spring
    The Secret History of Pollution and the EPA

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  116. Poisoned Skies
    Who'll Stop Acid Rain?

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
    The authors chronicle the decade-long struggle to get government action against acid rain - a devastating form of pollution.
  117. The Politics of Pachamama
    Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  118. Population Growth, Resource Consumption, and the Environment
    Seeking a Common Vision for a Troubled World

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

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  120. Putting Power in its Place
    Create Community Control!

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  121. Reclaiming Our Cities & Towns
    Better Living with Less Traffic

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  122. Red and Green
    The New Politics of the Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    In order for green politics to work, we need to develop a total policy for the environment, a social policy which views capitalist industry as the destroyer of the world we live in.
  123. Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
    New Internationalist November 1998

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1998
    Why socialists and environmentalists need to work together to bring about lasting change. Discussion of how inequality and environmental destruction are directly linked. Articles on development in India, predictions for the future, working hours and global consumption.
  124. 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.
  125. Resistance in China Today
    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  126. Saving the Oceans
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  127. A Short History of Progress
    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  128. Socialist Register 1993
    Volume 29: Real Problems False Solutions

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1993
  129. Spirit of the Wolf
    The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  130. Sustainable Communities Network Event Calendar
    Resource Type: Website
  131. This Changes Everything 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First 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.
  132. Toward Sustainable Communities
    Resources for Citizens and their Governments

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992   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.
  133. Trading Freedom
    How Free Trade Affects Our Lives, Work and Environment

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  134. The Transition Initiative 
    Changing the scale of change

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    People never need communities more than when there are threats to security, food, and lives. The Transition Initiative recognizes how much we need this scale now, because of peak oil and climate change. But beyond this concrete need, the lack of a sense of community has negative psychological impacts on individuals across the 'developed' world, as people report persistent and widespread feelings of loneliness, isolation, dispossession, alienation, and depression.
  135. 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
    Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
  136. Vital Signs
    The Trends that are Shaping Our Future

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

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
  138. Why Detroit Needs Justice and CPR
    Against The Current vol. 88

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    If anyone doubts that the modern American City has become the center of all forms of oppression, consider the list of injustices that Detroit residents confront everyday in a city governed by African Americans. Although Brush Park residents were granted funds for renovation some five years ago, the city has taken the money from the senior citizens and transferred it to the big developers and city attorneys to help evict the seniors.
  139. Why Marx Was Right 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    Eagleton takes common objections to Marxism and demonstrates how and why they are wrong.
  140. World at Gunpoint
    Or, what's wrong with the simplicity movement

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  141. The World Without Us 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.
  142. Worldchanging: A User's Guide to the 21st Century
    A User's Guide for the 21st Century

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007
    A User's Guide to the 21st Century is a compendium of everything a generation of environmental activists has to offer.

Experts on Environnement in the Sources Directory

  1. American Museum of Natural History
  2. Economic Community of West African States
  3. Economic Cooperation Organization
  4. European Union
  5. Oeko-Institut
  6. Organization of American States
  7. Rainforest Action Network
  8. South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation
  9. Southern African Development Community
  10. United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO)
  11. World Bank
  12. World Meterological Organization
  13. World Rainforest Movement

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