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  1. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1977
  2. The Closing Circle
    Man, Technology & the Environment
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  3. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 4 - September 1979 - Food/La Nourriture
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1979
  4. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1981
  5. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1990
  6. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    Published: 1991
  7. Connexions Library: Environment Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  8. Earth Day Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  9. 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.
  10. The Great Unraveling: Using Science and Philosophy to Decode Modernity
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  11. The Growth Illusion
    How economic growth has enriched the few, impoverished the many and endangered the planet
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1999
    Douthwaite argues that strategies used by governments to raise national income often increase poverty and unemployment. Moreover, in the USA, Britiain, Germany and Australia, each increase in national income consumes more resources than it creates on a sustainable basis. In other words, these economies are running backwards and making their citizens worse off.
  12. Life, Money & Illusion
    Living on Earth as if We Want to Stay
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  13. MiningWatch Canada
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  14. National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
    Media Profile in Sources
    Resource Type: Organization
  15. On the hunt for illegal miners as a new gold rush hits New Zealand
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2017
    A look at the black market in gold in New Zealand and the efforts to thwart opportunists who sneak onto private farm land and national parks without permits to mine illegally.
  16. The Politics of Pachamama
    Natural Resource Extraction vs. Indigenous Rights and the Environment in Latin America
    Resource Type: Article
    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.
  17. The Poverty of Power
    Energy and the Economic Crisis
    Resource Type: Book
    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.
  18. Sounding the alarm on environmental issues comes at a steep price
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2014
    On 20 April 2014 Human Rights Watch issued an urgent call for information on the whereabouts of Thai activist Por Cha Lee Rakchongcharoen, known as "Billy". The prominent ethnic Karen activist has been involved in a lawsuit with authorities over land use at a national park in Thailand. Locals have faced intimidation from park officials, and an activist connected to Billy's network was killed in 2011 after helping Karen villagers report on alleged abuses, illegal logging, and poaching committed by park officials.
  19. 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.
  20. 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.
  21. This Changes Everything
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    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.

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