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  • Eating Tomorrow

    Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food

    by Timothy A. Wise ...
    "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology."— NatureA major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expertFew challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making ... Read more

    $17.59 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Eating Tomorrow

    Agribusiness, Family Farmers, and the Battle for the Future of Food

    by Timothy A. Wise ...
    "A powerful polemic against agricultural technology."—NatureA major new book that shows the world already has the tools to feed itself, without expanding industrial agriculture or adopting genetically modified seeds, from the Small Planet Institute expertFew challenges are more daunting than feeding a global population projected to reach 9.7 billion in 2050—at a time when climate change is making ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

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  • Blue Future

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    The final book in Maude Barlow’s Blue trilogy, Blue Future is a powerful, penetrating, and timely look at the global water crisis — and what we can do to prevent it.The global water crisis has dramatically deepened. The stage is being set for drought on an unprecedented scale, mass starvation, and the migration of millions of refugees leaving parched lands in search of water. The story does not ... Read more

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    An Inconvenient Truth of water.“Imagine a world in twenty years, in which no substantive progress has been made to provide basic wastewater service in the Third World, or to force industry and industrial agriculture production to stop polluting water systems, or to curb the mass movement of water by pipeline, tanker and other diversion, which will have created huge new swaths of desert." ... Read more

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  • Blue Gold

    The Battle Against Corporate Theft of World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    In this international bestseller, currently available in more than a dozen countries, Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke describe the real and worsening global water crisis, and reveal the plans of transnational corporations to profit from it. The authors present both a compelling case and a practical plan for fighting back against the corporate takeover of this most precious natural resource. ... Read more

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  • Plan B 4.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    Mobilizing to Save Civilization

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    “[Brown’s] ability to make a complicated subject accessible to the general reader is remarkable.”—Katherine Salant, Washington PostAs fossil fuel prices rise, oil insecurity deepens, and concerns about climate change cast a shadow over the future of coal, a new energy economy is emerging. Wind, solar, and geothermal energy are replacing oil, coal, and natural gas, at a pace and on a scale we could ... Read more

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  • Full Planet, Empty Plates: The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    The New Geopolitics of Food Scarcity

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    With food supplies tightening, countries are competing for the land and water resources needed to feed their people.With food scarcity driven by falling water tables, eroding soils, and rising temperatures, control of arable land and water resources is moving to center stage in the global struggle for food security. “In this era of tightening world food supplies, the ability to grow food is fast ... Read more

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  • World on the Edge

    How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    In this urgent time, World on the Edge calls out the pivotal environmental issues and how to solve them now.We are in a race between political and natural tipping points. Can we close coal-fired power plants fast enough to save the Greenland ice sheet and avoid catastrophic sea level rise? Can we raise water productivity fast enough to halt the depletion of aquifers and avoid water-driven food ... Read more

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  • Food Politics

    What Everyone Needs to Know®

    by Robert Paarlberg ...
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    The politics of food is changing fast. In rich countries, obesity is now a more serious problem than hunger. Consumers once satisfied with cheap and convenient food now want food that is also safe, nutritious, fresh, and grown by local farmers using fewer chemicals. Heavily subsidized and underregulated commercial farmers are facing stronger push back from environmentalists and consumer activists, ... Read more

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  • Seed Sovereignty, Food Security

    Women in the Vanguard of the Fight against GMOs and Corporate Agriculture

    Edited by Vandana Shiva ...
    In this unique anthology, women from around the world write about the movement to change the current, industrial paradigm of how we grow our food. As seed keepers and food producers, as scientists, activists, and scholars, they are dedicated to renewing a food system that is better aligned with ecological processes as well as human health and global social justice. Seed Sovereignty, Food Security ... Read more

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  • World Hunger

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