In this compelling roadmap to a livable future, Indigenous sovereignty and a solution to the climate crisis go hand in hand. The climate crisis is here, and the end of this world--a world built on land theft, resource extraction, and...
Environmental justice
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Author:Eaton, Emily, Gray-Donald, David, Laforest, Joël, Lameman, Crystal, Tucker, Bronwen, Alook, AngeleSummary: -
Author:Summary:The concept of environmental justice has evolved over the past two decades to offer a new direction for social movements, public policy, and public planning. Researchers worldwide now position social equity as a building block for...
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Author:Summary:In the 20th century, cheap and abundant energy brought previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, and fed an explosion in population and consumption. But this growth came at an incredible cost. Climate change,...
- Author:Estes, NickSummary:
In Our History Is the Future, Nick Estes traces traditions of Indigenous resistance that led to the #NoDAPL movement. Our History Is the Future is at once a work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance.
- Author:Klein, NaomiSummary:
For more than twenty years, Naomi Klein has been the foremost chronicler of the economic war waged on both people and planet-and an unapologetic champion of a sweeping environmental agenda with justice at its center. In lucid, elegant...
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Author:Summary:The goal of Michigan: A State of Environmental Justice? is to free us from an economic growth and development paradigm that threatens our social and physical well-being. While we accumulate wealth, we also accumulate harmful pollution...
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Author:Wiebe, Sarah MarieSummary:"Near the Ontario-Michigan border, Canada's densest concentration of chemical manufacturing surrounds the Aamjiwnaang First Nation. Living in the polluted heart of Chemical Valley, members of this Indigenous community report a declining...
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Author:Summary:The goal of Environmental Crisis or Crisis of Epistemology? is to challenge us to think that how we know the world and what we choose to do with what we know is fundamental to our environmental crisis. Environmental Crisis or Crisis of...
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Author:Clapperton, JonathanSummary:Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. It illuminates the questions that...
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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...
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Blessed unrest : how the largest movement in the world came into being, and why no one saw it comingAuthor:Hawken, PaulSummary:Blessed unrest tells the story of a worldwide movement that is largely unseen by politicians or the media. Hawken, an environmentalist and author, has spent more than a decade researching organizations dedicated to restoring the...
- Author:Gilio-Whitaker, DinaSummary:
The story of Native peoples' resistance to environmental injustice and land incursions, and a call for environmentalists to learn from the Indigenous community's rich history of activismThrough the unique lens of "...
- Author:D'Arcy, Stephen, Black, Toban, Weis, Tony, Kahn Russell, JoshuaSummary:
Tar sands "development" comes with an enormous environmental and human cost. But tar sands opponents (who are fighting a powerful international industry) are likened to terrorists; government environmental scientists are...
