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  • Farm and Comunity Forestry

    by Gerald Foley, Geoffrey Barnard ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Forestry
    In 1984, when this book was originally published the need to take forestry outside the forests and involve local people in tree growing was widely recognised. Projects to encourage farm and community forestry were launched in over 50 developing countries. This book describes the main approaches which were taken, discussing their scope and limitation. It examines the reasons why people plant trees, ... Read more

    $62.99 CAD

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  • Boiling Point

    Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis

    by Maude Barlow ...
    Passionate and cogent, this could be the most important book of the year for CanadiansWe are complacent. We bask in the idea that Canada holds 20% of the world’s fresh water — water crises face other countries, but not ours. We could not be more wrong. In Boiling Point, bestselling author and activist Maude Barlow lays bare the issues facing Canada’s water reserves, including long-outdated water ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Future

    Protecting Water for People and the Planet Forever

    by Maude Barlow ...
    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

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Making Peace with the Earth

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    'One of the world's most prominent radical scientists', Vandana Shiva demolishes the myths propagated by corporate globalisation in its pursuit of profit and power, revealing the devastating environmental impact of corporate capitalism.Shiva argues that consumerism lubricates the war against the earth and that corporate control violates all ethical and ecological limits. She takes the reader on a ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Blue Covenant

    The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

    by Maude Barlow ...
    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

    $13.99 CAD

  • 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

    $19.99 CAD

  • Blue Gold

    The Fight to Stop the Corporate Theft of the World's Water

    by Maude Barlow, Tony Clarke ...
    "Probably the most eloquent call to arms we're likely to hear about the politics of water" ( The Globe and Mail , Toronto).In this "chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis," Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy ( In These Times). Our ... Read more

    $19.19 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Plan B 3.0: Mobilizing to Save Civilization (Substantially Revised)

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    "How to build a more just world and save the planet....We should all heed Brown's advice."—Bill ClintonIn this updated edition of the landmark Plan B, Lester Brown outlines a survival strategy for our early twenty-first-century civilization. The world faces many environmental trends of disruption and decline, including rising temperatures and spreading water shortage. In addition to these looming ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Earth for Sale

    The Fight to Stop the Last Plunder of the Planet

    by Maude Barlow ...
    An urgent warning about the financialization of nature and the quiet rise of corporate control over the planet’s resourcesMost agree on the urgent need for climate action, yet we are often divided on how to stop the destruction of the natural world. Earth for Sale exposes the danger of governments giving over this responsibility to powerful private interests, namely the same energy, chemical, ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

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  • The Columbia River Treaty

    A Primer

    by Robert William Sandford, Deborah Harford, Dr. Jon O'Riordan ...
    Series series An RMB Manifesto
    The Columbia River Treaty: A Primer is a vital work that clearly explains the nature of this complex water agreement between Canada and the United States and how its impending update will impact communities, landscapes, industry and water supplies between the two countries for many years to come.The Columbia River Treaty ratification in 1964 created the largest hydropower project in North America, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Peri-Urban Interface

    Approaches to Sustainable Natural and Human Resource Use

    Edited by Duncan McGregor, David Simon, Donald Thompson ...
    Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Outgrowing the Earth

    The Food Security Challenge in an Age of Falling Water Tables and Rising Temperatures

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    Historically, food security was the responsibility of ministries of agriculture but today that has changed: decisions made in ministries of energy may instead have the greatest effect on the food situation. Recent research reporting that a one degree Celsius rise in temperature can reduce grain yields by 10 per cent means that energy policy is now directly affecting crop production. Agriculture is ... Read more

    $49.99 CAD