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Workplace health issues are among the most serious and widespread of all health problems. Canadian workers and farmers are killed or injured at work in appalling numbers. Often they are exposed to noise, dust, radiation, and dangerous chemicals, at levels far above those considered 'acceptable' for the population at large. Frequently they are deliberately lied to or kept in ignorance about the hazards which they face at work. Asbestos companies, for example, knew for decades that asbestos was lethally dangerous before they admitted to their workers that the substance was in any way hazardous. Workplace health issues are becoming a major battleground as workers fight for the right to earn a living without sacrificing their health. Such issues frequently become struggles for power, specifically the right of workers to full knowledge of the substances they are working with, the right to have a significant say in managing work to minimize health risks, and the right to refuse unsafe work without being penalized. The emergence of such issues presents a significant opportunity for alliances to be made between unions, environmental groups, and health organizations.
- Connexions Annual

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Focus on Environment, Land Use, Rural issues

Recent & Selected Articles

This is a small sampling of articles related to environmental issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more articles, books, films, and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as environment, globalization, global climate change, energy, pollution, toxic wastes, drinking water, environment and agriculture, conservation, and urban environment.

  1. Gates of Delusion: Media Distortions and REAL Climate Scandals (February 22, 2010)
    Climate-related storms in a teacup have been appearing in the corporate media almost on a daily basis. This nonsense is distracting attention from a mountain of evidence that human-induced climate change is accelerating and poses a deadly threat to civilisation.
  2. Hard Core Green (January 14, 2010)
    Two uncompromised green activists and writers completely focused on winning, and utterly void of bullshit.
  3. The Dead End of Climate Justice (January 8, 2010)
    The notion of climate debt, highlighted as the principle avenue of struggle for the climate justice movement, poses some large problems. Contemporary demands for reparations justified by the notion of climate debt open a dangerous door to increased green capitalist investment in the Global South. Everything from energy to agriculture, from cleaning products to electronics, and especially everything within the biosphere, is being incorporated into this regime of climate markets. One can only imagine the immense possibilities for speculation and financialization in these markets as the green bubble continues to grow.
  4. Coal's Ruptured Landscape (January 5, 2010)
    It is more apparent now than ever before that coal mining, especially mountain top removal, is unethical and inhumane. It displays stark irresponsibility in land stewardship as well as depraved practices within a diverse region. It’s time to shake off the flawed belief that we are reliant upon coal and other fossil fuels.
  5. Doom and Gloom (December 21, 2009)
    Jermey Brecher says that the social roots of doom are part of a common pattern that we can observe repeatedly in history. People live their lives and pursue their goals by means of strategies that have been developed over time. But sometimes they discover their established strategies aren't working. No matter how hard they try, their problems remain intractable. The natural result is despair. But the awareness that other people are experiencing the same despair changes the context in which it is experienced. It opens up new possibilities. Perhaps the problems that we despair of solving as individuals can be addressed through some kind of collective action. When people begin to explore that possibility, the result may be a social movement.
  6. Academics Urge Government Climate Action (December 17, 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.
  7. Indian Waste-pickers Demand “Climate Justice” at Global Warming Summit (December 14, 2009)
    As governments struggle to develop an international plan for combating climate change, a new report from a leading Indian environment group has found that informal recycling makes a huge but unappreciated contribution towards the reduction of greenhouse gases.
  8. Targeting Earth First! (December 11, 2009)
    The war on environmentalism.
  9. Climate change: the eco-socialist solution (December 9, 2009)
    Climate change reminds us, in a phrase attributed to Lao Tzu, that “if you don’t change direction you may end up where you are heading”. The road of capitalism is now lined with horrors and we must find a new direction home. After a long absence, sustainability must be restored to the relationship between society and nature.
  10. The Climate Denial Industry Is Out To Dupe The Public. And It's Working (December 8, 2009)
    The climate denial industry consists of people who are paid to say that man-made global warming isn't happening.
  11. The Manufactured Doubt Industry And The Hacked Email Controversy (December 8, 2009)
    The fossil fuel industry has been working for years to create a smokescreen of doubt to obscure the facts of global warming.
  12. Rampaging Climate Deniers' Losing Battle (December 8, 2009)
    Because of the flimsy comprehension of science and evolution of most writers in the mass media, those who venture to write about evolution feel constrained to present "alternative" views. But "alternative" views are not necessarily credible or true. The cliimate change deniers' arguments are no less articles of faith than those of the creationists. In the case of the former, the faith is not in a god but in the free market and capitalism. Almost without exception, those who are in staunch denial are those connected to, involved in or supportive of the traditional capitalist model of economic growth, and by implication opposed to anything that might constrain this model.
  13. What’s at stake in Copenhagen (December 7, 2009)
    Tere is no chance of achieving binding greenhouse gas reductions within the current framework for an agreement. Instead the problem is being redefined to fit the business-as-usual assumptions of neoliberal economics.
  14. Why We Left Our Farms to Come to Copenhagen (December 7, 2009)
    Climate change is already seriously impacting us. It brings floods, droughts and the outbreak of pests that are all causing harvest failures. I must point out that these harvest failures are something that the farmers did not create. Instead, it is the polluters who caused the emissions who destroy the natural cycles. So, we small scale farmers came here to say that we will not pay for their mistakes. And we are asking the emitters to face up to their responsibilities.
  15. A Direct Tax On Fossil Fuel Is What The World Needs Urgently (December 6, 2009)
    A direct tax on fossil fuels is the only realistic way to achieve the necessary cuts.
  16. Canada Is Now To Climate What Japan Is To Whaling (December 3, 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.
  17. Seven Answers To Climate Contrarian Nonsense (November 30, 2009)
    Within the community of scientists and others concerned about anthropogenic climate change, those deny climate change are commonly referred to as contrarians, naysayers and denialists. Not everyone who questions climate change science fits that description, of course — some people are genuinely unaware of the facts or honestly disagree about their interpretation. What distinguishes the true naysayers is an unwavering dedication to denying the need for action on the problem, often with weak and long-disproved arguments about supposed weaknesses in the science behind global warming.
  18. Connexions Archive seeks a new home (November 18, 2009)
    The Connexions Archive, a Toronto-based library dedicated to preserving the history of grassroots movements for social change, needs a new home.
  19. Bloody Oil (November 1, 2009)
    The extraction of oil from tar sands is perhaps the most ecologically insane idea on the planet. Four First Nations representatives from Canada travelled to Britain to participate in the London climate camp – the country’s biggest annual gathering of climate activists. Organized by the Indigenous Environmental Network and supported by the New Internationalist, the group’s aim was to internationalize the campaign for a complete tar sands moratorium.
  20. Facing Down the Machine (October 30, 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.
  21. Impossibleism (October 29, 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....
  22. Earth's Life Support Systems Failing (October 13, 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.
  23. Uranium Corporation of India Limited: Wasting Away Tribal Lands (October 7, 2009)
    Radiation and health experts across the world charge that toxic materials and radioactivity released by the mining and processing operations are causing widespread infertility, birth defects and cancers.
  24. Carbon trading — privatising the world’s forests (September 20, 2009)
    The World Bank sponsored carbon offset program has faced widespread criticism for, in effect, privatising forests and allowing rich nations to evade responsibility for cutting emissions themselves.
  25. The great ‘success’ of a carbon trading failure (September 18, 2009)
    The “right to pollute” has never been more affordable. Energy companies and market speculators can buy a tonne of carbon for less than the cost of a cup of coffee. The low cost gives an incentive for companies to pollute more in the short-term and prices renewable energy alternatives out of the market.
  26. Farmers in Palestine create amazing produce in adverse conditions – and are fighting to export them (September 13, 2009)
    Palestine produces some of the finest olive oils in the world, not to mention dates, nuts, tomatoes – even wine. Now, despite the conflict, farmers are finding ways to export their produce – and show the world that their country is still the land of milk and honey.
  27. Women Recycle for Income and Environment (September 12, 2009)
    The women of this town in northern Venezuela no longer say "garbage" but rather "secondary raw material," and instead of referring to recycling, they talk about "separation at point of origin."
  28. Desert Winds Stir New Hope (September 9, 2009)
    With oil and gas reserves running dry, Egypt is eyeing wind power as a solution to its looming energy crunch.
  29. Double Jeopardy: Carbon Offsets and Human Rights Abuses (September 9, 2009)
    Whether you’re a climate change denier or doomsayer, an avid recycler or rabid consumer of plastic bottles, there is one very good but little-known reason to oppose carbon offsets: their immediate and dire human costs.
  30. Inuit Are Living on the Front Lines of Climate Change (September 8, 2009)
    Climate change is being felt in northwest Canada, and in a wide circle at the top of the world, stretching from Alaska through the Siberian tundra, into northern Scandinavia and Greenland, and on to Canada's eastern Arctic islands, a circle of more than 300,000 indigenous people.
  31. Uganda: Carbon Trading Scheme Pushing People off Their Land (August 31, 2009)
    Carbon trading schemes are causing the displacement of indigenous persons as western companies rush to invest in tree-planting projects in developing countries.
  32. Coral Reefs (August 30, 2009)
    All around the world, much of the world’s marine biodiversity face threats from human and activities as well as natural. It is feared that very soon, many reefs could die off.
  33. Health and environmental victories for South African activists (August 20, 2009)
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
  34. The Globalization of Garbage: Following the Trail of Toxic Trash (August 13, 2009)
    Despite a near universal international ban on exporting toxic or hazardous material, most of electronic waste from the United States ends up in China, India, Vietnam, or in African countries like Ghana, and Nigeria.
  35. Nature and Animal Conservation (July 26, 2009)
    Conservation of ecosystems and the species within them would help to maintain the natural balances disrupted by recent human activity. Unfortunately, despite the effort put into conservation by organizations and activists, their work can easily be undermined by those who have other interests. This occurs, for example, from habitat destruction, illegal poaching, to influencing or manipulating laws designed to protect species.
  36. Damming Magdalena: Emgesa Threatens Colombian Communities (July 21, 2009)
    Local people protest a project that attacks the region’s biodiversity and communities.
  37. Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions (May 17, 2009)
    Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
  38. A Request For More Effective Regulation of jet skis (April 28, 2009)
    Jet skis produce noise pollution, water pollution, adversely impact wildlife and aquatic plants, and pose serious safety risks.
  39. A Carbon-Free Future (March 1, 2009)
    A carbon-free future is possible and necessary.
  40. Noise Busters (March 1, 2009)
    Good neighbors keep their noise to themselves.
  41. Beyond Radical (2009)
    What conservatives could bring to the climate conversation.
  42. Forget Shorter Showers (2009)
    Why personal change does not equal political change.
  43. The Transition Initiative (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.
  44. Transitional demands (2009)
    The Transition movement aims to move us ‘from oil dependency to local resilience,’ using the power of community.
  45. Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans! (2009)
    Environmentalism can most simply be defined as the extension of the Golden Rule to include other species. Wildlife must be given top priority, because they can't protect themselves from us.
  46. World at Gunpoint (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.
  47. 20 Ways to Save Mother Earth and Prevent Climate Change (December 15, 2008)
    Capitalism's glorification of competition and thirst for limitless profit are destroying the planet.
  48. The Global Battle Against Noise Pollution (August 26, 2008)
    Studies done in several European countries have demonstrated that noise can be a major killer. Awake or even asleep your brain and body react to sounds that increase the levels of stress hormones.
  49. The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands (January 24, 2008)
    I do not accept the premise that abuse of our lands is something that we must tolerate as inevitable. It is our land. It is our children's land, and their children's land. We have a responsibility to pass these lands on to the next generation in better condition than we found them.
    Talking about promoting 'responsible' ORV use is like suggesting we ought to promote "responsible wife abuse" or "responsible child abuse."
  50. Safe streets (October 9, 2007)
    Not pedaling can kill you.
  51. Pure Propaganda - The Great Global Warming Swindle (March 13, 2007)
    The Scientists Are The Bad Guys.
  52. How green are your ethics? (January 23, 2007)
    The assumption that underlies much of the discussion on carbon neutrality is that any activity that emits CO2 - and that means virtually every human activity - is something to apologise for. All human activities must be judged by their carbon content, and the morality of an action gauged principally by its carbon count. Carbon calculators have become the moral barometers of our age.
  53. Noise Pollution: A Modern Plague (2007)
    Environmental noise pollution, a form of air pollution, is a threat to health and well-being. It is more severe and widespread than ever before, and it will continue to increase in magnitude and severity because of population growth, urbanization, and the associated growth in the use of increasingly powerful, varied, and highly mobile sources of noise. It will also continue to grow because of sustained growth in highway, rail, and air traffic, which remain major sources of environmental noise. The potential health effects of noise pollution are numerous, pervasive, persistent, and medically and socially significant.
  54. The beauty of wind farms (April 16, 2005)
    Windmills are beautiful. They harness the power of the wind to supply us with heat and light. They provide local jobs. They help clean our air and reduce climate change.
  55. The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People (July 3, 2004)
    It is clear that mountain biking is harmful to some wildlife and people. No one, even mountain bikers, tries to deny that. Bikes create V-shaped ruts in trails, throw dirt to the outside on turns, crush small plants and animals on and under the trail, facilitate increased levels of human access into wildlife habitat, and drive other trail users (many of whom are seeking the tranquility and primitiveness of natural surroundings) out of the parks.
  56. Growing Poverty Is Shrinking Mexico's Rain Forest (December 8, 2002)
    The struggle for land has started to pit the Zapatista rebel movement against ecologists who want to save the remains of the forest. The Zapatistas declared war on Mexico's government nearly nine years ago over the poverty of peasants in Chiapas. Today the movement criticizes efforts to conserve the bioreserve as a "war of extermination against our indigenous communities."
  57. Keep It Down (and Rediscover Silence) (2002)
  58. Appeasing the Mountain Bikers (January 23, 2001)
    Just because someone is able to purchase a machine that lets them ride off-road, that is no reason that the public should be required to provide them a place to use it.
  59. Abandoning the Public Interest (October 7, 2000)
    The neo-liberal drive to cut red tape is costing lives. Exposing the hidden costs of deregulation and privatization.
  60. Contamination: The Poisonous Legacy of Ontario's Environmental Cutbacks (June 4, 2000)
    The story of Ontario's right-way Harris government, which gutted health and environmental protection polices, leading to the Walkerton water disaster.
  61. Drowning in Noise: Noise Costs of jet skis in America (April 1, 2000)
    An analysis of the value of the lost enjoyment that jet ski noise introduces into beach environments.
  62. The Psychology of Mountain Biking (January 24, 2000)
    The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
  63. Environmental Noise (2000)
    This booklet deals with environmental noise -- for example, noise from industrial sites, road and rail traffic, airports and fairgrounds.
  64. Equal Access to Our Parks for Bulldozer Racing (November 24, 1999)
    Tthere have been some problems, such as some people riding recklessly, going off the designated trails, and even secretly constructing illegal trails. But those are a small minority of bulldozer riders. You shouldn't allow a small minority to give the majority of us bulldozer racers, who ride responsibly, a bad name. Why should we be punished, just because of them, and be forced to walk, just like everybody else?
  65. MUZAK: Music to Whose Ears? (December 14, 1998)
    For many people background music, or ‘muzak" as it is commonly known, is both irritating and frustrating. For the UK’s 8.7 million deaf and hard of hearing people background muzak often causes pain, discomfort and unnecessary distress.
  66. Jetskis Should Be Banned (April 6, 1998)
    To launch a jet ski into the shallow waters that are so important to marine wildlife takes little money, little training, and little energy. Jet skis put our most vulnerable marine and avian wildlife directly into the hands of some of our most biologically ignorant and least responsible citizens.
  67. Nature and the Communist Manifesto (1998)
    What is needed is a broadening of the original socialist vision rather than a rejection of that vision or its amalgamation with something else, like liberal or neo-liberal) environmentalism.
  68. Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited (May 31, 1997)
    To most environmentalists, bicycles have always been the epitome of good. We are so used to comparing bikes to cars, that it never occurred to us that the bicycle would be ever used for anything bad. Indeed, replacing motor vehicles with bicycles deserves our adoration. But anything can be used for good or evil, and using bikes to expand human domination of wildlife habitat is clearly harmful.
  69. Truth About Global Warming (1997)
    Review of The Heat is On: The High Stakes Battle Over Earth's Threatened Climate, by Ross Gelbspan.
  70. Adverse Health Effects of Noise (1995)
    The effects of noise are widespread and impose long-term consequences on health.
  71. Community Noise (1995)
    Critically reviews the adverse effects of community noise, including interference with communication, noise-induced hearing loss, annoyance responses, and effects on sleep, the cardiovascular and psychophysiological systems, performance, productivity, and social behaviour.
  72. Pedalling Upwind (1992)
    Roads are at the crux of almost every current environmental problem, and hence, halting the expansion of the highway system (and other parts of our auto-dependent culture) is one of the most effective spigots by which we can choke off environmental destruction.
  73. Water Exports: The New Gold Rush? (March 21, 1991)
    Water shortages have become an top issue in the U.S., and it appears the nation will look north of the border for help. In Canada, opposition is growing.
  74. Investing in a Sustainable Future (March 1, 1991)
    The Cerro Gordo community.
  75. Global Militarism and the Environment (February 1, 1991)
    The connection between militarism and environmental damage.
  76. Ecology Watch (January 1, 1991)
    Poverty has been identified as a major cause of environmental degradation
  77. Great Lakes Spills Pose Toxic Risks (January 1, 1991)
    As the largest source of fresh water in the world, and a primary trading route, pollution and the possiblity of toxic spills in the Great Lakes have the potentional to adversely affect millions.
  78. Entrepreneurs Convert Landfill Gas into an Alternative Source of Energy (October 1, 1990)
    New technology is presenting alternatives for the generation of energy from landfill gases.
  79. Connexions Annual Overview: Environmental, Land Use, Rural (October 1, 1989)
    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.
  80. How You Can Help Make A Difference (1989)
    Your actions can make a difference. There are a host of things you can do in and around your home to reduce pressures on the environment.
  81. Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: A Literature Synthesis (1988)
    This report was produced as the result of a cooperative research project between the National Ecology Research Center, Ft. Collins, Colorado and the Air Force Engineering and Services Center, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, on the effects of aircraft noise and sonic booms on animals.
  82. Effects of Aircraft Noise and Sonic Booms on Domestic Animals and Wildlife: Bibliographic Abstracts (1988)
    Abstracts of bibliographic resources.
  83. Blocking Progress (1983)
    Howard Ryan maintains that consensus is wrong in principle and in practice: "The problem is not so much that individuals are being irresponsible or somehow abusing the consensus process. The problem lies in giving individuals that kind of power in the first place. Consensus turns majority rule into minority rule. That's not democracy."

Selected Websites and Organizations

This is a small sampling of organizations and websites concerned with environmental issues Connexions Directory. For more organizations and websites, check the Connexions Directory Subject Index, especially under topics such as environment, globalization, global climate change, energy, pollution, toxic wastes, drinking water, environment and agriculture, conservation, and urban environment.

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Books, Films and Periodicals

This is a small sampling of books related to environmental issues in the Connexions Online Library. For more books and other resources, check the Connexions Library Subject Index, especially under topics such as environment, globalization, global climate change, energy, pollution, toxic wastes, drinking water, environment and agriculture, conservation, and urban environment.

  1. Biopiracy
    The plunder of nature and knowledge
    Author: Shiva, Vandana
    Internationally renowned Third World environmentalist Vandana Shiva exposes the latest frontier of the North's ongoing assault against the South's biological and other resources.
  2. Blue Gold
    The battle against corporate theft of the world's water
    Author: Barlow, Maude; Clarke, Tony
    International tensions around water are rising in many of the world's most volatile regions.This book exposes the enormity of the problem, the dangers of the proposed solution and the alternative, which is to recognize access to water as a fundamental human right, not dependent on ability to pay.
  3. Boreal Forests in Crisis
    Author: Hamel, Peter
  4. Climate Cover-Up
    The Crusade to Deny Global Warming
    Author: Hoggan, James; Littlemore, Richard
    Tracking the global warming denial movement from its inception, public relations advisor James Hoggan (working with journalist Richard Littlemore), reveals the details of those early plans and then tracks their execution, naming names and exposing tactics in what has become a full-blown attack on the integrity of the public conversation.
  5. Conned, Carbon offsets stripped bare
    New Internationalist July 2006
    Discussion of the myths about carbon offsets, and details of more positive climate change steps to take. Carbon offsetting is exposed as a scam, one that's been sold to the guilt-ridden general public as an easy answer to a complex problem.
  6. Defending the Earth
    A Dialog Between Murray Bookchin and Dave Foreman
    A renowned political theorist faces off against an 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?
  7. The Earthscan Action Handbook
    Author: Litvinoff, Miles
    A compendium of the world's major ills with suggestions for remedial action.
  8. Ecological Imperialism
    The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900
    Author: Crosby, Alfred W
  9. Ecology as Politics
    Author: Gorz, Andre
    Socialism is no better than capitalism if it makes use of the same tools. The total domination of nature inevitably entails a domination of people by the techniques of domination.
  10. The Ecology of Freedom
    The Emergence and Dissolution of Hierarchy
    Author: Bookchin, Murray
    Bookchin's synthesis of ecology, anthropology and political theory traces our conflicting legacies of hierarchy and freedom from the first emergence of human culture to today's globalized capitalism, constantly pointing the way to a sane, sustainable ecological future.
  11. The Enemy of Nature
    The End of Capitalism or the End of the World?
    Author: Kovel, Joel
    We live in and from nature, but the way we have evolved of doing this is about to destroy u. Capitalism and its by-rpoducts -- imperialism, war, neoliberal globalization, racism, poverty, and the destruction of community -- are all playing apart in the destruction of our ecosystem.
  12. For Our Common Future
    Author: Taylor, Walt
  13. Green Business: Hope or Hoax?
    Toward an Authentic Strategy for Restoring the Earth
    Author: Plant, Christopher, Plant, Judith
    Is green business a viable strategy or a contradiction in terms?
  14. Green Cities
    Ecologically Sound Approaches to Urban Space
    Author: Gordon, David (ed.)
    Visions from around the world for an ecological urban model. Argues that putting wilderness in cities is good for conservation of wildlife.
  15. A Green History of the World
    The Environment and the Collapse of Great Civilizations
    Author: Ponting, Clive
    Ponting tracks the "green" history of the world showing how throughout history civilizations have collapsed when they exhausted the earth's natural resources.
  16. Green Production
    Toward an Environmental Rationality
    Author: Leff, Enrique
    Explores the environment and sustainability development with a Marxist approach and provides an alternative vision for ecotechnology.
  17. Heat
    How to Stop the Planet From Burning
    Author: Monbiot, George
    Concerns about the effects of global warming on the Human species - especially those unfortunate enough to live in poorer countries - require drastic action, far outstripping the recommendations of the Kyoto protocol.
  18. The Heat Is On
    The Climate Crisis, The Cover-up, The Prescription
    Author: Gelbspan, Ross
  19. Home!
    A Bioregional Reader
    Author: Andruss, Van, Plant, Christopher, Plant, Judith, Wright, Eleanor
    A guide to the vision and strategy of bioregionalism.
  20. The No-Nonsense Guide to Climate Change
    Author: Godrej, Dinyar
  21. Red and Green
    The New Politics of the Environment
    Author: Weston, Joe (Editor)
    For most people Green politics means a concern for 'nature' and conservation. It means not clubbing seals to death nd stopping acid rain. But these concerns, by themselves, are those of a middle-class view of 'nature'. This book makes a larger claim - 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.
    The environment of the poor in inner cities is of as much concern as the protection of trees - and the one is not possible without the other.
  22. Red and Green Eco-socialism comes of age
    New Internationalist November 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.
  23. Sustainability Searching for solutions
    New Internationalist November 2000
    A look at the issues and facts regarding sustainability around the world.
  24. Tree Spiker
    From Earth First! to Lowbagging: My Struggles in Radical Environmental Action
    Author: Roselle, Mike; Mahan, Josh
    Roselle — cofounder of the Rainforest Action Network and Earth First! — offers a memoir of his career in radical activism — from teenage Yippie to career environmentalist.
  25. What's Left? Environmentalists and Radical Politics
    Author: Williams, Rick
    Environmentalist activism as radical practice.
  26. The World Without Us
    Author: Weisman, Alan
    A thought experiment to see what would happen to the planet if human beings simply disappeared.


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