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  1. Academics Urge Government Climate Action
    Sources News Release

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  2. Air Force Invades the Rocky Mountains
    Sky Grab

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    Communities throughout rural America are fighting to stop more Air Force flights overhead. In addition to New Mexico and Colorado, Montana, Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, North Dakota, South Dakota, Arizona, Kentucky and Maine are some of the other states fighting intrusive low-level flights.
  3. Appeasing the Mountain Bikers
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  4. The Canadian Green Consumer Guide
    How You Can Help

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988   Published: 1989
    A guide to responsible shopping that won't cost the earth.
  5. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
  6. Changing minds on a changing climate
    What Makes Climate Science Deniers Change Their Minds?

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Reddit commenters point to reasons they went from being climate contrarians to having confidence in mainstream climate science.
  7. Charting Environmental Conflict - The Atlas of Environmental Justice
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Another tool supporting the growing movement and better global awareness is the Atlas of Environmental Justice. The EJAtlas is packed with qualitative information about almost 1800 environmental conflicts.
  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 7, Number 4 - December 1982 - Housing

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
  11. Connexions Digest
    Issue 51 - May 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
  12. Connexions Digest
    Issue 53 - January 1991- A Social Change Sourcebook

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1991
  13. Connexions Library: Environment Focus 
    Resource Type: Website
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on environment, ecology, climate change, pollution, and land use.
  14. Defending the Oldman River
    A conversation with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth

    Resource Type: Audio
    First Published: 1991   Published: 1992
    An interview with Milton-Born-With-A-Tooth about the struggle to defend the Oldman River in Alberta.
  15. Depleted Uranium
    New Internationalist November 2007 - #406

    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 2007
    This is a special edition with 7 different articles devoted to the subject." Toxic souvenirs"-DU ammunition; Dont' look dont find-Iraqi doctors; We were expendable-US army veterans; The Facts; Who's the real criminal-largest DU manufacturer in the U.S.; Action-building the ban with Belgian activists
  16. Ecodefense
    A Field Guide to Monkeywrenching. Second Edition

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1985   Published: 1987
  17. Ecological Imperialism
    The Biological Expansion in Europe, 900-1900

    Resource Type: Book
  18. Ecologist Special Report: From fish to forests and conflicts to coffee ... how humans are affected by climate-driven species shifts
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Climate change has species on the move, with major consequences for biodiversity and human communities. Building resilience has never been more important and Indigenous Peoples are showing the way.
  19. Eliizabeth Kolbert's Field Notes from a Catastrophe
    Against The Current vol. 125

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Floods in normally drought-stricken eastern India have killed hundreds and left 1.5 million homeless this summer. Closer to home, a record-setting heat wave this June killed 225 in the United States, breaking thousands of local temperature records and sending the mercury above 104 degrees as far north as North Dakota.
  20. The Encroaching Desert
    Report

    Resource Type: Book
    This new report for a top-level international Commission focuses attention on the relentless spreading of the world's deserts. This report highlights the shortcomings of the Third World countries as well as the Western donors and the multilateral agencies. It draws on information gathered in the field in all parts of the world. It points to examples of remedial action and sets out the policies required to reverse the trend before it is too late.
  21. 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.
  22. Gute Argumente: Verkehr
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    Informiert anschaulich and sachlich über die Grundlagen des Verkehrssystems, über the Hintergründe der auto-orientierten Gesleeschaft und uber unweltschonende und wirtschaflich vorteilhafte Alternativen.
  23. Holding The Silent Killers Of Environmental Destruction Accountable
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The findings of the most recent IPCC report are sobering. We have 15 years to mitigate climate disaster. It is up to us to make a major transition to a carbon-free, nuclear-free energy economy within that timeframe. Big Energy and our plutocratic government are not going to do it without effective pressure from a people-powered movement.
  24. How You Can Help Make A Difference
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  25. The Impacts of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People
    A Review of the Literature

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  26. In Our Backyard
    A Greater Vancouver Environmental Guide...

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    In Our Backyard focuses on environmental problems that apply directly to Greater Vancouver. With detials on local garbage and recylcing facilities, water and energy consumption, sewage disposal, air quality, and more, it is designed to help ordinary people deal with the onslaught of information and value changes that will continue to surround the environmental movement.
  27. International Dark Sky Association
    Resource Type: Website
    Concerned with stopping the adverse environmental impact of light pollution and space debris.
  28. Just the Beginning of Canada's Filthy Tar Sands 
    A Qualitative Jump Down a Black Hole

    Resource Type: Article
    First 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.
  29. Keystone XL opponents need a jobs program 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    The victorious Keystone campaign also exposed the perennial Achilles' heel of those who are fighting against climate change: We are often painted by our opponents and perceived by the public as caring more about the environment than about jobs. The neglected half of the job for environmental advocates is to ourselves become the voice for job creation. We need to develop robust programs to put unemployed pipefitters, teamsters, and others back to work. Indeed, the prerequisite for every environmental campaign should be a plausible and detailed jobs program. The sustainability movement must be a voice for workers, students, and others who want to both save the earth and promote appropriate economic development.
  30. Letter to Prime Minister Justin Trudeau regarding Line 9
    Climate Change and the Line 9B Reversal Project

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    A letter from community organizations in southern Ontario and Quebec, impacted Indigenous communities, and national organizations that would like to express adamant opposition to the recent 'Leave to Open' status granted to the Enbridge Line 9B reversal project by the National Energy Board (NEB) of Canada.
  31. Living with the Land
    Communities Restoring the Earth

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1992
    A collection of stories from grassroots communities about the benefits of ecological living.
  32. The March on Blair Mountain
    A Historic Day in West Virginia

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    The coal industry is an industry which has admitted it can not make a profit without breaking laws.
  33. Marx and Nature 
    A Red and Green Perspective

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1999   Published: 2014
    While recognizing that production is structured by historically developed relations among producers, Marx insists that production as a social and material process is shaped and constrained by natural conditions. Paul Burkett shows that it is Marx's overriding concern with human emancipation that impels him to approach nature from the standpoint of materialist history, sociology, and critical political economy.
  34. Marx and Nature: A Red and Green Perspective - Book Review 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2015
    Essential reading for ecosocialists. Paul Burkett shows that humanity's relationship to nature is central to Marx’s critique of capitalism and vision of socialism.
  35. Marxism and the Earth: A defence of the classical tradition
    Book review of Marx and the Earth: An Anti-Critique

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    Marxist analyses of the natural world have been the focus of intense debate recently, and the publication of any book that further explores what Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels thought about the subject is something to be welcomed. John Bellamy Foster and Paul Burkett have proven track records of writing some of the clearest books on the subject, and while Marx and the Earth is not a specific response to some of their recent critics, it is an important defence of Marx’s and Engels’s original work.
  36. The Moronic Sport: ORVs on Public Lands
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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."
  37. Mountain Biking: Frequently Asked Questions
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Inactive/Defunct Periodical
    Why do people mountain bike, and what harms does it do?
  38. Mountaintop Removal: Environmental And Human Destruction For Profit
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    Coal River Mountain Watch (CRMW) is an initiative "to stop the destruction of our communities and environment by mountaintop removal, to improve the quality of life in our area, and to help rebuild sustainable communities."
  39. The No-Nonsense Guide to Fair Trade
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2001
    Ransom suggests that fair, environmentally-conscious trade is not only a viable alternative to unfair free trade, but that it is the way of the future.
  40. One Year of the BP Blowout
    Against The Current vol. 153

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2011
    In the years after Hurricane Katrina, I saw New Orleanians suffer from lack of health care. The storm and subsequent flooding caused immediate illness, with infections from the foul flood water and debris. As time passed, ever-present mold exacerbated respiratory conditions and mental health deteriorated in the face of immense stress.
  41. Peace Out
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 2011
    Charles Wilkinson explores the costs of damming, fracking, and extracting, and how they implicate every gas tank and light switch in this country.
  42. Places in Need - Mountain Bike Damage
    Resource Type: Article
    Trails are easily and seriously degraded by mountain bike use - especially when those bikes are ridden on wet or muddy trail.
  43. The Psychology of Mountain Biking
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    The first thing one notices about mountain bikers is that they lie continually.
  44. Slamming the World Bank and IMF
    Resource Type: Article
    Activists and NGOs converge on Washington. to protest the World Bank and IMF.
  45. Stop Signs
    Cars and Capitalism on the Road to Economic, Social and Ecological Decay

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2011
    A global ecological critique of the American automobile addiction.
  46. Stupid to the Last Drop
    How Alberta is Bringing Environmental Armageddon to Canada (and Doesn't Seem to Care)

    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2007   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.
  47. Tar Sands
    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

    Resource Type: Book
    First 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.
  48. This Changes Everything 
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First 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.
  49. Trail Damage Caused by Irresponsible Mountain Bikers
    Resource Type: Article
    The damage caused by each mountain biker is much greater than that caused by a hiker, firstly because of the extra weight of the bike, and secondly because the soil is impacted continuously along the trail, while a hiker's feet hit the soil only at intervals.
  50. What Bhopal Started
    From Union Carbide to Exxon to BP

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Bhopal marked the horrific beginning of a new era. One that signalled the collapse of restraint on corporate power. The ongoing BP spill in the Mexican Gulf -- with estimates ranging from 30,000 to 80,000 barrels per day -- tops off a quarter of a century where corporations could (and have) done anything in the pursuit of profit, at any human cost.
  51. Why Off-Road Bicycling Should be Prohibited
    The Effects of Mountain Biking on Wildlife and People

    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.
  52. Wildlife Need Habitat Off-Limits To Humans!
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 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.

Experts on Cons‚quences environnementales in the Sources Directory

  1. American Museum of Natural History
  2. Article 19
  3. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
  4. Smithsonian Institution National Museum of Natural History
  5. World Tourism Organization

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