"Canada's Waste Flowsis one of the first attempts not just to discuss the challenges posed by waste in a municipal or national framework, but to connect these municipal and national politics to global events. Hird examines Canada's...
Nature and the environment
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Author:Hird, Myra J.Summary: - Author:Cetus, GregSummary:
Veery can be found in southern Canada and northern woodlands of the United States during summer time. The breezy modulating song of this thrush adds exotic warmth and comfort to the music of leafy forests of North America. Veer spends...
- Author:Pitt-Brooke, David, Kennedy Jr., RobertSummary:
First published in 2004, and now with a new introduction by the author and a foreword by Robert F. Kennedy Jr., this book of natural history, environmentalism, and politics explores one of the Earth's last primeval places: Clayoquot...
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Climate change is already under way with unpredictable consequences. Evidence of changes to the earth's physical, chemical and biological processes is obvious everywhere. Greenhouse gas emissions have increased the carbon cycle...
- Author:Hoggan, JamesSummary:
Talk of global warming is nearly inescapable these days — but there are some who believe the concept of climate change is an elaborate hoax. Despite the input of the world’s leading climate scientists, the urgings of politicians, and...
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Climate catastrophe throws into stark relief the extreme, life-threatening inequalities that affect millions of lives worldwide. The poorest and most marginalized, who are least responsible for the consumption and emissions that create...
- Author:Leduc, Timothy B.Summary:
Every day brings new headlines about climate change as politicians debate how to respond, scientists offer new data, and skeptics critique the validity of the research. To step outside these scientific and political debates, Timothy...
- Author:Rose, GeorgeSummary:
The devastation of the North Atlantic cod stocks, particularly the tremendous stocks of Newfoundland and Labrador and the Grand Banks, has become an icon for the unsustainable relation between human exploitation and Nature. Here, George...
- Author:Sandford, Robert WilliamSummary:
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...
- Author:Kingsnorth, PaulSummary:
Paul Kingsnorth was once an ardent environmentalist. But over time, he gave up on the hope that humans will ever make the sacrifices needed to avert the consequences of climate change. Instead, he argues for UnCivilization, a renewed...
- Author:Primack, Richard B., Wilson, John W.Summary:
Easy to read, this lucid and accessible textbook includes fifteen chapters that cover a full range of conservation topics, including threats to biodiversity, environmental laws, and protected areas management, as well as related topics...
- Author:Downey, Robert, Jr.Summary:
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES AND USA TODAY BESTSELLER In Cool Food, celebrated actor and philanthropist Robert Downey Jr. and New York Times bestselling author Thomas Kostigen team up to discover how we can erase our carbon footprints -...
- Author:Lopez, BarrySummary:
Crossing Open Ground is a collection of essays by nature writer Barry Lopez. It's food for the spirit from perhaps the finest nature writer of our time.
- Author:Johnson, Harold R.Summary:
Growing up on a northern trap line, Harold Johnson was taught to keep his distance from wolves. For decades, wolves did the same for humans. But now this seems to be changing. In 2005, twenty-two-year-old Kenton Carnegie was killed in a...
- Author:Suzuki, DavidSummary:
David Suzuki’s autobiography limns a life dedicated to making the world a better place. The book expands on the early years covered in Metamorphosis and continues to the present, when, at age 70, Suzuki reflects on his entire life — and...
- Author:Howe, MilesSummary:
In 2009, the New Brunswick provincial government provided a licence to search over a million hectares of land to Texas-based Southwestern Energy for the purposes of natural gas extraction. For years, tens of thousands of New...
- Author:Ehrenreich, Ben.Summary:
Layering climate science, mythologies, nature writing, and personal experiences, National Magazine Award winner Ben Ehrenreich presents a stunning reckoning with our current moment and with the literal and figurative end of time. As...
- Author:Montano, SamanthaSummary:
Part activist memoir, part climate change primer. Dr. Montano brings readers on an eye-opening journey studying some of our worst disasters, helping readers make sense of what really happened. She explains why some disaster survivors...
- Author:Hollihan, TonySummary:
The history of western Canada has its share of disasters, both natural and man-made. The devastation, the loss of life and the courage in the face of adversity make for powerful and poignant stories that are well told in this collection...
- Author:Wood, Chris, Pentland, RalphSummary:
An incisive critique of Canada’s drinking water gatekeepers.
Canada is celebrated for its abundance of fresh water, and few Canadians question the safety of the water that comes from our taps. But is this trust justified? One...
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