- Another world is possible if...
Resource Type: Book Published: 2004 Susan George suggests that we can create a new and better world -- if we act together to bring about changes. She discusses the ifs and hows.
- A Call For A Fair Shares Agreement: Will Justice Prevail in Paris?
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 For most people the word justice conjures up images of superheroes and supreme courts. It seems a grand notion with little bearing on the practicalities of daily life. And when applied to the climate crisis it seems even less comprehensible. But the shocking thing about climate justice is that not only can it be calculated -- it can be achieved.
- Canadian Information Sharing Service
Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1978
- Canadian Institute of Planners
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- A Carbon-Free Future
An Interview with Arjun Makhijani Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
- Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Author, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- 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.
- Connexions
Volume 6, Number 3 - September 1981 - Atlantic Development/Le Developpement Atlantique Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1981
- 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.
- Deep Green Resistance: Strategy to Save the Planet
Resource Type: Book Published: 2011 The authors maintain that industrial civilization is incompatible with life. Technology can't fix it, and shopping no matter how green wont stop it. To save this planet, we need a serious resistance movement that can bring down the industrial economy. Deep Green Resistance evaluates strategic options for resistance, from nonviolence to guerrilla warfare, and the conditions required for those options to be successful. It provides an exploration of organizational structures, recruitment, security, and target selection for both aboveground and underground action. Deep Green Resistance also discusses a culture of resistance and the crucial support role that it can play.
- The Domination of Nature
Resource Type: Book Leiss relates environmental concerns back to the fundamental problem of man's domination of his fellow man. In doing so, he argues for a reconsideration of the relationship between humanity and nature.
- Earth Day Canada
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered
A Catalyst Guide to Socially Conscious Investing Resource Type: Book Published: 1989 Economics as if the Earth Really Mattered offers hundreds of suggestions of how average people can invest their money and/or their time in building a new economy in harmony with life-affirming values. Subjects covered include boycotts and sharehold action, socially responsible investment funds, social change revolving loan funds, small-scale investing, worker ownership, alternative exchange systems, and seeds for the future.
- The Enemy of Nature
The End of Capitalism or the End of the World? Resource Type: Book Published: 2007 We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy you. Capitalism and its by-products -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing a part in the destruction of our ecosystem.
- 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.
- Fair Taxation in a Changing World: Highlights
Report of the Ontario Fair Tax Commission Resource Type: Book Published: 1993
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe
Resource Type: Book Published: 2006 A readable account of the development of the science of global warming, alongside shocking vignettes that demonstrate the rapidly altering effects climate change is having on our world.
- For Workers' Climate Action
Climate Change and Working-Class Struggle Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A new collection of articles and reviews on the fight against dangerous climate change, capitalism and workers' organisation and struggle. Urges the left to reach out to climate activists to make the case that being "anti-capitalist" is important but not enough.
- Getting Serious About Keeping Fossil Fuels in the Ground Means Getting Serious About a Just Transition
Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 If the climate movement is going to get serious about keeping fossil fuels in the ground, the movement needs to get serious about cultivating a real vision for a just transition. If were going to see coal-fired power plants and oil refineries and chemical plants shut down we need to have a real vision about what the future looks like for those workers, their families and their communities.
- Global Thoughts, Local Actions
Resource Type: Book Published: 1985 A wealth of information for those seeking ways to link global problems to everyday life.
- Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth Resource Type: Book Published: 1991 Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
- How to Promote a Just Transition and Break out of the jobs vs. environment trap
A Superfund for Workers Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 A strategy has been emerging to protect workers and communities whose livelihoods may be threatened by climate protection policies. Protecting those who lose their jobs due to necessary environmental policies has often been referred to as a "just transition."
- How to Save the World
Strategy for World Conservation Resource Type: Book Published: 1980 "How To Save The World" discusses, "Why the world needs saving now and how it can be done". Allen breaks his work down into seven chapters, devoting each to an important aspect of the global predicament. Securing the food supply, saving forests, preserving wildlife and presenting a strategy for conservation are all discussed as methods to improve the relationship between mankind and nature.
- Indictment of Russians over US election meddling is case of pot calling the kettle black
Resource Type: Article Published: 2018 WorldNetDaily writer and former US Department of Defense official F. Michael Maloof recalls past US foreign policy adventures in light of claims of Russian interference in the 2016 US presidential election.
- Inhance Mutual Funds
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Is Capitalism Sustainable?
Political Economy and the Politics of Ecology Resource Type: Book Published: 1994 The book concludes that world-scale capitalism may be viable for some time, but its costs (cultural, ecological, increased conflict) will be great.
- 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.
- Klein vs. Klein
Resource Type: Article Published: 2015 This Changes Everything is a book capacious enough to allow Naomi Klein two positions at once. But a real climate-justice movement will at some point have to make choices.
- 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.
- Marxism as if the planet mattered
A Return to Marx's Ecological Critique Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels held that capitalism inevitably tears apart the natural conditions that sustain life. They argued capitalism's exploitation of working people, and the unsustainable exploitation of nature, were linked and part of the same process.
- National Round Table on the Environment and the Economy
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- None of the world's top industries would be profitable if they paid for the natural capital they use
Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 The notion of "externalities" refers to costs imposed by businesses that are not paid for by those businesses. Roberts argues that, although the term is useful in folding ecological concerns into economics, it has its downsides.
- Odious Debts
Loose Lending, Corruption and the Thirld World's Environmental Legacy Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- Our Generation
Volume 23 Number 1 Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1992
- Paving Paradise
Is British Columbia Losing Its Heritage? Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- The Politics of Extractivism
Book Review of "Geopolítica de la Amazonía: Poder hacendal-patrimonial y acumulación capitalista" by Alvaro García Linera Resource Type: Article Published: 2013 García Linera's work is most certainly an expression of the dramatic changes in Bolivia and the "cultural and democratic revolution" Morales and his MAS party claim to have inaugurated.
- 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.
- Searching for Sustainability
Book Review Resource Type: Article Published: 2014 Review of "State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?" by the WorldWatch Institute.
- Socialist Register 1997
Volume 33: Ruthless Criticism of All that Exists Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical) Published: 1997
- Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com
Sources News Release Resource Type: Article Published: 2009 Sources welcomes Chris Chopik, Professional Speaker, Writer, and Founder of www.EvolutionGreen.com.
- Spirit of the Wolf
The Environment and Canada's Future: Volume 1 Resource Type: Book Published: 1991
- 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
Capitalism vs the Climate Resource Type: Book Published: 2014 Klein says that climate change cannot be confronted unless we confront capitalism. She says that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better.
- The Toronto Board of Trade
Media Profile in Sources Resource Type: Organization
- Towards Workers' Climate Action
Book review Resource Type: Article Published: 2016 A review of a book and a pamphlet by Paul Hampton, both on the urgent need for workers' action on climate change.
- The tragedy of liberal environmentalism
Resource Type: Article Published: 2017 The tragedy of liberal environmentalism is that it occupies the political discourse as the most pragmatic, the most possible way to a better future, but implementing this watered down, technical environmental politics is not at all smooth, or easy. It is rather Sisyphean. This is the tragic political circumstance of our times: What is framed as easy, as the most compatible with the status quo, is actually so very, very hard.
- Wealth, Illth, And Net Welfare
Resource Type: Article Published: 2011 Wellbeing should be counted in net terms -- that is to say we should consider not only the accumulated stock of wealth but also that of "illth;" and not only the annual flow of goods but also that of "bads." The fact that we have to stretch English usage to find words like illth and bads with which to name the negative consequences of production that should be subtracted from the positive consequences, is indicative of our having ignored the realities for which these words are the necessary names.
- Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity
Tackling climate change in a neoliberal world Resource Type: Book Published: 2015 Paul Hampton, a Marxist trade union researcher in Britain, addresses the role of workers in the climate justice movement, as well as the tasks of revolutionaries.
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