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Wilderness Areas AlterLinks Topic Index Anthropocene Boosters and the Attack on Wilderness Conservation Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A number of academics, commentators, and groups argue that humans have so completely modified the Earth that concepts such as 'wilderness' or 'nature' have become meaningless, and that therefore there is no point in talking about 'preserving' wilderness or natural areas. The idea of 'nature', they say, is just a human cultural construct. Those advancing these ideas use different progressive-sounding labels, such as "pragmatic environmentalists" or "green postmodernism," but their message is that we should forget about wilderness conservation and just get on with the business of 'managing' the planet for human benefit. Not surprisingly, corporate and industry leaders have been jumping on the bandwagon. The Canadian Environmental Education Catalogue A Guide to Selected Resources Resource Type: Article Canadian Polar Commission Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Canadian Wildlife Federation Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization Connexions Digest Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1990 Connexions Digest Issue 54 - February 1992- A Social Change Sourcebook Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992 Connexions Library: Environment Focus Resource Type: Website Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use. Connexions Library: Nature Focus Resource Type: Website Published: 2009 Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on nature. Desert Solitaire A season in the wilderness Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Divine ecstasy of Nature: Selected Writings by John Muir Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 A new collection of John Muir's (1838-1914) writings promises to inspire another generation to fall in love with wild nature, to care for it, to know that wilderness is not optional but central to our survival in the centuries to come. His words survive him. "Everybody needs beauty as well as bread, places to play in and pray in, where Nature may heal and cheer and give strength to body and soul alike." Divine wilderness: John Muir's spiritual and political journey Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 For John Muir, founder of America's national parks, immersion in nature was a blessing providing direct communion with divinity,and the cause of a spiritual awakening that inspired his life's work: to preserve wilderness and communicate the beauty, wonder and fragility of nature, sharing widely the source of his own enlightenment. A Field Guide to Eastern Forests Resource Type: Book Published: 1988 A "second-generation" field guide to the ecology of the forests and fields of eastern North America. Green Cities Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space Resource Type: Book Published: 1990 Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife. The Greening of the Cities Resource Type: Book Published: 1987 Human Nature Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Dowie sympathizes with the view that 'wildenress' is a human creation. Islands of Hope Ontario's Parks and Wilderness Resource Type: Book Published: 1992 The Natural Role of Humans in the Wilderness Resource Type: Article Published: 1989 Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - June 5, 2015 Residential schools Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2015 This issue of Other Voices focuses on residential schools. As documented by the just-released report of Canada's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, residential schools were set up to forcibly 'assimilate' Native children by taking them away from their parents and communities, and depriving them of their language, culture, history, and emotional supports. Based as they were on a system of arbitrary power and cruelty, it is not surprising that they also fostered physical and sexual abuse of the children forced into the schools. We spotlight the report and the recommendations of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, as well as films, books, and survivor stories. Also in this issue: the Orwellian language and tactics being used to sell 'anti-terrorist' legislation, mind-boggling subsidies for the fossil fuel industry, and, on the other side of the ledger, stories of courage and resistance. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - August 27, 2017 Official Enemies Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 2017 Why and how do some countries become 'enemies'? How and why do governments and media work in tandem to demonize official enemies? Who are the people who live in those countries, what are their lives like, and why should we consider them our enemies? Protecting Canada's Endangered Spaces An Owner's Manual Resource Type: Book Published: 1995 Conservationist Hummel explains what needs to be done by whom and when to protect wilderness in Canada. Wetland Plants of Ontario Resource Type: Book Published: 1997 WWF -- Canada Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization

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