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larry j schweiger

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  • Fighting for The Future of Nature

    Inside a struggle to keep the Wild Alive

    In the 1960s, Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published, and a new era of environmental protection began, beginning with the end of DDT and leading to numerous laws to protect the environment and human health.Larry J. Schweiger became fascinated with conservation in his youth, inspired by the beauty of his home state of Pennsylvania and the conservationists who came before him. His journey is ... Read more

    $23.90 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Last Chance

    Preserving Life in Earth

    "This is an unabashed call to each and every American to moral duty for the future of life on earth," begins National Wildlife Federation president and CEO Larry J. Schweiger in this stirring exposé and call to action. Speaking to us not just as a conservation leader but also as an outdoor lover and a parent, Schweiger describes the causes and effects of global warming on our wildlife, ecosystems, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Climate Crisis and Corrupt Politics

    Overcoming the Powerful Forces that Threaten our Future

    There is only one earth and our world is undergoing dramatic changes brought on by the climate crisis and other human-induced ecological disruptions. The world's top scientists studying these threats and the forces behind them have been warning us for dec ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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    Capitalism vs. the Climate

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    WINNER 2014 – Hilary Weston Writers’ Trust Prize for Non-FictionForget everything you think you know about global warming. The really inconvenient truth is that it’s not about carbon—it’s about capitalism. The convenient truth is that we can seize this existential crisis to transform our failed system and build something radically better. In her most provocative book yet, Naomi Klein, author of ... Read more

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  • The Inconvenient Indian

    A Curious Account of Native People in North America

    by Thomas King ...
    WINNER of the 2014 RBC Taylor PrizeThe Inconvenient Indian is at once a “history” and the complete subversion of a history—in short, a critical and personal meditation that the remarkable Thomas King has conducted over the past 50 years about what it means to be “Indian” in North America.Rich with dark and light, pain and magic, this book distills the insights gleaned from that meditation, weaving ... Read more

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  • The Truth About Stories: A Native Narrative

    by Thomas King ...
    Series series The CBC Massey Lectures
    Winner of the 2003 Trillium Book Award "Stories are wondrous things," award-winning author and scholar Thomas King declares in his 2003 CBC Massey Lectures. "And they are dangerous." Beginning with a traditional Native oral story, King weaves his way through literature and history, religion and politics, popular culture and social protest, gracefully elucidating North America's relationship with ... Read more

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  • Dancing On Our Turtle's Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence

    Many promote Reconciliation as a “new” way for Canada to relate to Indigenous Peoples. In Dancing on Our Turtle’s Back: Stories of Nishnaabeg Re-Creation, Resurgence, and a New Emergence activist, editor, and educator Leanne Simpson asserts reconciliation must be grounded in political resurgence and must support the regeneration of Indigenous languages, oral cultures, and traditions of governance. ... Read more

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  • Tar Sands

    Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent, Revised and Updated Edition

    Tar Sands critically examines the frenzied development in the Canadian tar sands and the far-reaching implications for all of North America. Bitumen, the sticky stuff that ancients used to glue the Tower of Babel together, is the world’s most expensive hydrocarbon. This difficult-to-find resource has made Canada the number-one supplier of oil to the United States, and every major oil company now ... Read more

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  • In This Together

    Fifteen Stories of Truth and Reconciliation

    What is real reconciliation? This collection of essays from both Indigenous and non-Indigenous contributors from across Canada welcomes readers into a timely, healing conversation—one we've longed for but, before now, have had a hard time approaching.These reflective and personal pieces come from journalists, writers, academics, visual artists, filmmakers, city planners, and lawyers, all of whom ... Read more

    $8.99 CAD

  • Eaarth

    Making a Life on a Tough New Planet

    by Bill McKibben ...
    The bestselling author of Deep Economy shows that we’re living on a fundamentally altered planet — and opens our eyes to the kind of change we’ll need in order to make our civilization endure.Twenty years ago, with The End of Nature, Bill McKibben offered one of the earliest warnings about global warming. Those warnings went mostly unheeded; now, he insists, we need to acknowledge that we’ve ... Read more

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  • Our History Is the Future

    Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance

    by Nick Estes ...
    **Winner of the Oakland “Blue Collar” PEN AwardA work of history, a manifesto, and an intergenerational story of resistance that shows how two centuries of Indigenous struggle created the movement proclaiming “Water is Life”**In 2016, a small protest encampment at the Standing Rock reservation in North Dakota, initially established to block construction of the Dakota Access oil pipeline, grew to ... Read more

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