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Paradise Won

Paradise Won

The Struggle to Create Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve
by Elizabeth May
edition:Paperback
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, environmental policy, coastal regions & shorelines

Originally published in 1990, Paradise Won has been updated and details the epic 12-year struggle to stop logging in the unique global ecosystem referred to as “Canada’s Galapagos.”

Gwaii Haanas National Park Reserve is located in the southernmost part of Haida Gwaii (formerly known as the Queen Charlotte Islands), 130 kilometres off the mainl …

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Taking a Break from Saving the World

Taking a Break from Saving the World

A Conservation Activist’s Journey from Burnout to Balance
by Stephen Legault
edition:Paperback
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, essays, environmentalists & naturalists

"The climate crisis is an overwhelming phenomenon and eco-activist Stephen Legault knows all about that. He’s been a burnout casualty a number of times and seeks solutions for the malaise, knowing people can’t be effective politically unless they take care of themselves. He has recommendations on everything from diet to organizational restricti …

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The Hard Work of Hope

The Hard Work of Hope

Climate Change in the Age of Trump
by Robert William Sandford & Dr. Jon O'Riordan
edition:Hardcover
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, environmental policy, global warming & climate change

The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develop effective solutions to the growing urgency for global action on climate change.

The Hard Work of Hope builds on events that have transpired since Decemb …

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Carbon Play

Carbon Play

The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
by Robert William Falls
edition:eBook
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An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.

Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in the worlds of academia, politics and corporate “big ener …

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Carbon Play

Carbon Play

The Candid Observations of a Carbon Pioneer
by Robert Falls
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An insider’s look at the complex, inspiring and surprisingly entertaining world of international negotiations, technology and diplomacy relating to the carbon industry, environmental management and climate mitigation.

Carbon Play follows Robert Falls’s unique and extraordinary journey in the worlds of academia, politics and corporate “big ener …

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North America in the Anthropocene

North America in the Anthropocene

by Robert William Sandford
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Robert William Sandford’s latest RMB manifesto invites the reader to separate the hype from the hope with respect to the outcomes of the 2015 Paris climate conference and in relation to humanity’s dangerous new era — the Anthropocene.

In responding to the urgency – and the opportunity – of getting sustainable development right, the United …

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Live Close to Home

Live Close to Home

by Peter Denton
edition:eBook
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tagged : sustainable living, environmental policy, environmental conservation & protection

In his third thought-provoking RMB manifesto Peter Denton explains how we can change course toward a sustainable future in immediate and practical ways – and why it could make all the difference for ourselves and for future generations.

As individuals and as a culture and society, we have increasingly emphasized the global village over the village …

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A River Captured

A River Captured

The Columbia River Treaty and Catastrophic Change
by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook Paperback
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, rivers, environmental policy

A River Captured explores the controversial history of the Columbia River Treaty and its impact on the ecosystems, indigenous peoples, contemporary culture, provincial politics and recent history of southeastern British Columbia and the Pacific Northwest.

 

Long lauded as a model of international cooperation, the Columbia River Treaty governs the sto …

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Storm Warning

Storm Warning

Water and Climate Security in a Changing World
by Robert William Sandford
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tagged : environmental conservation & protection, hydrology, environmental policy

Human beings and industrial-based society are changing the composition of our planet’s atmosphere and causing it to warm at an unnatural and oftentimes astonishingly rapid rate. Much of that warmth is being absorbed by water, which as a result is moving through the global hydrological cycle faster and in unprecedented ways. A warmer atmosphere ca …

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The Climate Nexus

The Climate Nexus

Water, Food, Energy and Biodiversity in a Changing World
by Dr. Jon O'Riordan & Robert William Sandford
edition:Hardcover
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Secure supplies of water, food and energy are essential to human dignity and well-being around the globe. In turn, the vitality of these three depends on a thriving biodiversity supported by healthy ecosystems. The complex interdependence among these four factors is known as the Nexus.

 

Global demand for the first three elements is increasing due to …

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The Columbia River Treaty

The Columbia River Treaty

A Primer
by Robert William Sandford; Deborah Harford & Dr. Jon O'Riordan
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tagged : hydrology, ecology, environmental conservation & protection, environmental policy

Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.

The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, with additional emphasis on flood protection for the United States. As the treaty approaches its 60th anniver …

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Frostbike

Frostbike

The Joy, Pain and Numbness of Winter Cycling
by Tom Babin
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The bicycle is fast becoming a ubiquitous form of transportation in cities all over the world, making our urban spaces more efficient, more livable and healthier. But many of those bicycles disappear into basements and garages when the warm months end, parked there by owners fearful of the cold, snow and ice that winter brings. But does it have to …

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On Fracking

On Fracking

by C. Alexia Lane
edition:Hardcover
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Around the world, a significant shift from conventional to unconventional energy extraction is occurring like never before. As traditional energy sources dwindle and the demand for fossil fuels continues to increase, civilization seems to be taking greater and greater risks in order to fuel our consumption and over-use of this planet's natural reso …

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Cold Matters

Cold Matters

The State and Fate of Canada's Fresh Water
by Robert William Sandford
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tagged : ecology, environmental conservation & protection, environmental policy

Cold Matters is a vital and approachable work that distills the scientific complexities of snow, ice, water and climate and presents the global implications of research put forth and funded by the Canadian Foundation for Climate and Atmospheric Sciences. This timely book gives the concerned reader an opportunity to take part in the conversation abo …

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Digging the City

Digging the City

An Urban Agriculture Manifesto
by Rhona McAdam
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At the last census in 2006, just over 80 percent of Canada’s population lived in urban centres. How we feed that population and protect its food sources is an enduring subject of debate in food security circles these days. As consumers and citizens, we all need to take a hard look at the deficiencies in Canada’s ability to feed the urban poor; …

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Gift Ecology

Gift Ecology

Reimagining a Sustainable World
by Peter Denton
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Global sustainability in the 21st century seems to be an elusive goal. There are too many issues, too many problems—and, increasingly, too many people—to make the major changes required in the time various experts tell us we have left before it’s too late.

To create a sustainable future, we need to change the game itself. We cannot simply try …

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Little Black Lies

Little Black Lies

Corporate and Political Spin in the Global War for Oil
by Jeff Gailus
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Beginning in 1967 and for just over 30 years, the oil industry toiled in the relative obscurity of Northern Alberta as machines peeled away earth and boreal forest to exhume what has now become one of humanity’s most precious and contentious resources: bitumen. As the years passed, the bitumen mines sprawled, poisonous tailings ponds spread, toxi …

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Becoming Water

Becoming Water

Glaciers in a Warming World
by Mike Demuth
edition:Hardcover
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Becoming Water takes the reader on a tour of Canada’s glaciers, describing the stories they tell and educating the reader about how glaciers came to be, how they work and what their future holds in our warming world. By visiting Canada’s high and low Arctic and the mountain West, the reader will learn how varied and complex our glaciers really …

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Becoming Water

Becoming Water

Glaciers in a Warming World
by Michael Demuth
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Provocative, passionate and populist, RMB Manifestos are short and concise non-fiction books of literary, critical, and cultural studies.

Becoming Water takes the reader on a tour of Canada’s glaciers, describing the stories they tell and educating the reader about how glaciers came to be, how they work and what their future holds in our warming w …

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The Grizzly Manifesto

The Grizzly Manifesto

In Defence of the Great Bear
by Jeff Gailus
edition:Hardcover
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Grade: 10
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The grizzly bear, once the archetype for all that is wild, is quickly becoming a symbol of nature’s fierce but flagging resilience in the face of human greed and ignorance—and the difficulty a wealth-addicted society has in changing its ways.

 

North America’s grizzlies have been under siege ever since Europeans arrived. They’d survived the a …

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Restoring the Flow

Restoring the Flow

Confronting the World's Water Woes
by Robert William Sandford
edition:Paperback
also available: eBook
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I believe that it is up to people like us to find the language, create the images and imagine the solutions that will allow us to break out of the vicious circle that threatens public health by threatening our landscapes and water sources . . . Together we can work toward this end. And, we can do it with humour. We can do it with style. And we can …

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Denying the Source

Denying the Source

The Crisis of First Nations Water Rights
by Merrell-Ann Phare
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook
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First Nations are facing some of the worst water crises in Canada and throughout North America. Their widespread lack of access to safe drinking water receives ongoing national media attention, and yet progress addressing the causes of the problem is painfully slow. First Nations have had little say in how their waters are, or are not, protected. T …

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The Weekender Effect

The Weekender Effect

Hyperdevelopment in Mountain Towns
by Robert William Sandford
edition:Hardcover
also available: eBook Paperback
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Grade: 10
tagged : mountains, regional planning

Praise for The Weekender Effect:

 

What happens to paradise when you carve it up into lots and sell it? Bob Sandford writes about it with clarity and a deep love of the places he knows so well. Sandford's story of one town's mutation from a quiet mountain haven to an overcrowded, generic 'outpost of globalization' is essential reading for those who …

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