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  1. After Malheur, the end of the beginning: war for America's public lands rages on
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Those who value public lands - for economic, environmental, recreational and aesthetic values - owe a debt of gratitude to Harney County, Oregon, writes Peter Walker. A violent branch of the Sagebrush Rebellion came to town, and the community told it to go away: the decisive factor in the occupiers' defeat. But the greater war for America's public lands has only just begun.
  2. Among the Pipeline Fighters in Central Iowa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Iowans protest the Bakken pipeline, fighting against Big Carbon and 21st century petro-capitalism.
  3. The Arctic Turns Ugly
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Runaway global warming is far and away humankind's biggest nightmare, and the Arctic is the likely perpetrator. If it happens, it'll blister agricultural foodstuff before it can reach the outstretched arms of the multitudes.
  4. Berta Cáceres: her fight for human rights in Honduras continues
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Last week the environmental and human rights activist Berta Cáceres was murdered by gunmen in an early morning attack on her home which may have been carried out by or in collusion with state agents. Now her friend and colleague Gustavo Castro, himself wounded in the attack and the only witness to Berta's murder, has been detained for questioning.
  5. Berta Cáceres, Honduran eco-defender, murdered
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Berta Cáceres, Honduran indigenous and environmental rights campaigner, has been murdered, days after she was threatened for opposing a hydroelectric project. Her death has prompted international outrage, and a flood of tributes to a courageous defender of the natural world.
  6. Chipko movement
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Movement dedicated to the conservation, restoration and ecologically-sound use of India's natural resources. Known for practising Gandhian methods of satyagraha and non-violent resistance, such as hugging trees to protect them from being felled.
  7. Confronting the Climate Change Crisis
    An Ecosocialist Perspective
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2008
  8. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
  9. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
  10. 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
  11. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 1 - Spring 1987 - A Digest of Resources and Groups for Social Change
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1987
  12. Connexions
    Volume 11, Number 2 - Winter 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  13. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
  14. Connexions Digest
    Issue 50 - December 1989 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1989
  15. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  16. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  17. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  18. Connexions Digest
    Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  19. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  20. Directory of Environmental Organizations
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1991
  21. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  22. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  23. Ecuador's Bitter Choice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Becker analyzes the politics behind the decision to extract petroleum from Ecuador's ecologically fragile Yasuní National Park.
  24. The Environmental Movement at the Crossroads
    Gang Green or New Green?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    There is a growing culture of resistance in the environment movement
  25. 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.
  26. Facing Down the Machine
    Mike Roselle Draws a Line
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Federal and state governments have long targeted the civil rights of environmentalists. In the mid-1980s swaths of new laws were passed that targeted the acts of direct action oriented environmental protests.
  27. FAO: Plantations are not forests!
    Since 1948 the UN's Food and Agriculture has been clinging to an outmoded definition of 'forests' that includes industrial wood plantations
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The FAO definition considers forests to be basically just 'a bunch of trees', while ignoring other fundamental aspects of forests, including their many other life-forms such as other types of plants, as well as animals, and forest-dependent human communities. Equally, it ignores the vital contribution of forests to natural processes that provide soil, water and oxygen.
  28. Fishers and plunderers: The tragedy of the commodity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Overfishing, pollution and warming water have pushed the world’s oceans into crisis. If nothing is done the results will be catastrophic for marine systems and the billions of humans who rely on them. To stop this destruction our society has to be organized in a completely different way.
  29. 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.
  30. The Fuelwood Trap
    Policy and Planning in the SADCC
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    The vast majority of the 60 million people in SADCC countries rely on woodfuel for domestic use. As supplies diminish, the quality of life is deteriorating while the environment becomes more and more degraded. This book looks at the demands to be made on politicians and planners and describes not simply the costs and effects of the problem but also suggests major ways forward.
  31. Get Active
    Resource Type: Website
    A guide to organizing and carrying out campaigns on social and environmental issues, prepared by Greenpeace Australia.
  32. The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    All of this ecological destruction has been driven by America’s most popular exports: capitalism and imperialism. William Hawes talked about using science and philosophy to decode modernity.
  33. How Corporations and Law Enforcement Are Spying on Environmentalists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    In August 2010, the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Domestic Terrorism Analysis Unit distributed an intelligence bulletin to all field offices warning that environmental extremism would likely become an increasing threat to the energy industry. The eight-page document argued that, even though the industry had encountered only low-level vandalism and trespassing, recent "criminal incidents" suggested that environmental extremism was on the rise.
  34. How Tides Canada Controls the Secret North American Tar Sands Coalition
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Mainstream environmental groups are being positioned to make a bad deal on the Tar Sands.
  35. How to Blow Up a Pipeline
    Learning to fight in a world on fire
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2021
  36. Katrina, Climate Justice and Fish Dinners: Social Justice Lawyer Colette Pichon Battle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Colette Pichon Battle gave up a great job working as a corporate immigration lawyer in Washington DC to live in a tent in front of her flooded family home 50 miles from downtown New Orleans. She is now a much honored director of a small but powerful non-profit climate justice human rights firm advocating all along the Gulf Coast. Why the big change in her life? Katrina, climate justice and fish dinners.
  37. Kenya's 'Erin Brockovich' defies harassment to bring anti-pollution case to courts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2018
    Phyllis Omido is leading a landmark class action demanding a clean-up and compensation from a lead-smelting factory accused of poisoning local residents - including her own son.
  38. The Last Frontier
    Fighting Over Land in the Amazon
    Resource Type: Book
    This richly detailed study of the Amazon region spells out the mismanagement, corruption, and resulting chaos and brutality of successive Brazilian government development schemes. The present situation in the Amazon and how it came about are vividly portrayed, often in the words of the people interviewed. We learn of the problems and resistance of the indigenous peoples, the conflicts between landowners and peasants, and the ecological damage large scale ranching and mining are causing.
  39. The Late Great Lakes
    An Environmental History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1986
    Ashworth presents five common misunderstandings about the Great Lakes and advocates for improvements, remedial action and ecosystem strategies.
  40. My Friend Was Murdered for Trying to Save the Amazon
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Paulino paid with his life for trying save his tribe's forest, the Arariboia Indigenous Territory, in the north-east Amazon.
  41. Natural Disasters
    Acts of God or Acts of Man?
    Resource Type: Book
    The authors argue that natural disasters are not so natural. Surveying the rising damage caused around the world by floods, draught, cyclones, earthquakes and tidal waves, they conclude that these events are "disaster triggers," magnified by the three major contributors to disasters in the Third World: poverty, environmental degradation, and rapid population growth. This book offers new directions and planning for a more sustainable world community.
  42. A New Wave of Climate Insurgents Defines Itself as Law-Enforcers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Grassroots movement organizations from every continent will hold a global week of action called Break Free From Fossil Fuels in May 2016. They envision tens of thousands of people mobilizing worldwide to demand a rapid transition to renewable energy. Events will include nonviolent direct actions targeting extraction sites or infrastructure; pressure on political targets to shift policies around fossil fuel development; and support for clean energy alternatives.
  43. Newspaper Owned By Fracking Billionaire Leaks Memo Calling Pipeline Opponents Potential "Terrorists"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has produced a report titled, "Potential Domestic Terrorist Threats to Multi-State Diamond Pipeline Construction Project," dated April 7, 2017. The DHS field analysis report points to lessons from policing the Dakota Access pipeline, saying they can be applied to the ongoing controversy over the Diamond pipeline, which, when complete, will stretch from Cushing, Oklahoma to Memphis, Tennessee. While lacking "credible information" of such a potential threat, DHS concluded that "the most likely potential domestic terrorist threat to the Diamond Pipeline … is from environmental rights extremists motivated by resentment over perceived environmental destruction."
  44. Oil and Water
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    A collection of articles charting how leaked documents and public records reveal a troubling fusion of private security, public law enforcement, and corporate money in the fight over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
  45. Our Generation
    Volume 23 Number 1
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1992
  46. The RCMP versus the 'anti-petroleum movement'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's political police serve the oil industry, citing lobbyists and rightist demagogues to slander environmental activists as potential terrorists.
  47. Searching for Sustainability
    Book Review
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
  48. A Tale of Two Citations: Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" and Michael Harrington's "The Other America"
    Contrasting Lessons for Activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2019
    Looking at the forgotten, more radical aspects of Carson's "Silent Spring." Compares it with other, less radical works that were more easily co-opted by governments looking to appease new social and environmental movements.
  49. Tar sands campaigners are Canada's new 'terrorists'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Canada's Harper government has targeted as a new crime being a member of an 'anti-Canadian petroleum movement', and equating such a stance with terrorism.
  50. Targeting Earth First!
    Dave Foreman and the First Greenscare Case
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    The war on environmentalism.
  51. Thinking Like a Mountain
    Toward a Council of All Beings
    Resource Type: Book
    This book of readings, meditations, poems, and workshop notes helps us realize that environmental defence is nothing less than self-defence. It provides a context for ritual identification with the natural environment and so brings a process of community therapy in defence of Mother Earth.
  52. Tony Mazzocchi Lives: Blue-Green Organizer Takes Up 'Just Transition' Mantle
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Union and environmental activist Alex Lotorto believes environmentalists should be working more closely with organized labour and following the advice of some of labour's more enlightened leaders.
  53. Toward Unity Among Environmentalists
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
  54. Tree sitting
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    A form of environmentalist civil disobedience in which a protester sits in a tree, usually on a small platform built for the purpose, to protect it from being cut down.
  55. 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.
  56. 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.
  57. Wendell Berry's Radical Skepticism
    The celebrated farmer and poet shares a message of love in a time of unrest
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    When the celebrated writer, farmer, and elder statesman of the local food movement sat down in front of a sold-out audience at Johns Hopkins University last week, the crowd seemed even more eager than usual to soak in Berry's wisdom in this particularly fraught national moment. The event was a public conversation between Berry and Eric Schlosser, investigative journalist and author of Fast Food Nation, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Center for a Livable Future at the Bloomberg School of Public Health. And many in the audience -- made up of people who care about the work the Center does to study the intersections between food systems, the environment, and human health -- were likely feeling a great deal worried about the fate of the issues about which they care deeply.
  58. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
  59. 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.
  60. Why We Need A "No Compromise" Climate Movement
    Between Empire And Its Subjects
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    Successful campaigns against strip mining in the Appalachians have included peaceful legal tactics like petitioning, letters to the editor, education, marches and protests, as well as civil disobedience, industrial sabotage, armed defense of Appalachians’ property and other tactics that are viewed as insurrectionary and violent by today’s mainstream environmentalists.
  61. Women and the Environment in the Third World
    Alliance for the Future
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This book contains well documented case studies and interviews with leading women conservationists from the Third World, and gives a clear account of women's problems in relation to land, water, forests, energy and human settlements. It also looks at the lack of response from international organizations and at ways in which women can organize to meet environmental, social and economic challenges.
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