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  • Boiling Point

    How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis -- And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster

    by Ross Gelbspan ...
    In Boiling Point, Ross Gelbspan argues that, unchecked, climate change will swamp every other issue facing us today. Indeed, what began as an initial response of many institutions -- denial and delay -- has now grown into a crime against humanity. The fossil fuel industry is directing the Bush administration's energy and climate policies-payback for helping Bush get elected. But they're not the ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

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  • Climate Of Corruption : Politics And Power Behind The Global Warming Hoax

    by Larry Bell ...
    New revelations demonstrate how politics and powerful special-interest agendas have warped the most important scientific debate of the 21st century. Melting glaciers suffering polar bears rising oceansthese are just a few of the climate change crisis myths debunked by noted aerospace expert Larry Bell in this explosive new book. With meticulous research Bell deflates these and other climate ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Age of Sustainable Development

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    Jeffrey D. Sachs is one of the world's most perceptive and original analysts of global development. In this major new work he presents a compelling and practical framework for how global citizens can use a holistic way forward to address the seemingly intractable worldwide problems of persistent extreme poverty, environmental degradation, and political-economic injustice: sustainable development ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

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  • Common Wealth

    Economics for a Crowded Planet

    by Jeffrey D. Sachs ...
    “Lucid, quietly urgent, and relentlessly logical . . . this is Bigthink with a capital B.” —The New York Times Book Review“Common Wealth explains the most basic economic reckoning that the world faces.” —Al Gore, winner of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize and former vice president of the United StatesIn Common Wealth, Jeffrey D. Sachs-one of the world's most respected economists and the author of The ... Read more

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  • Carbon Shift

    How Peak Oil and the Climate Crisis Will Change Canada (and our lives)

    by Thomas Homer-Dixon ...
    "We are now so abusing the Earth that it may rise and move back to the hot state it was in fifty-five million years ago, and if it does, most of us, and our descendants, will die."-James Lovelock, leading climate expert and author of The Revenge of Gaia"I don't see why people are so worried about global warming destroying the planet - peak oil will take care of that."-Matthew Simmons, energy ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

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

    Mobilizing to Save Civilization

    by Lester R. Brown ...
    “[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

    $13.99 CAD

  • What Every Environmentalist Needs to Know About Capitalism

    by Fred Magdoff, John Bellamy Foster ...
    Praise for Foster and Magdoffs The Great Financial Crisis: In this timely and thorough analysis of the current financial crisis, Foster and Magdoff explore its roots and the radical changes that might be undertaken in response. . . . This book makes a valuable contribution to the ongoing examination of our current debt crisis, one that deserves our full attention.—Publishers WeeklyThere is a ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The Party's Over

    Oil, War and the Fate of Industrial Societies

    by Richard Heinberg ...
    The world is about to run out of cheap oil and change dramatically. Within the next few years, global production will peak. Thereafter, even if industrial societies begin to switch to alternative energy sources, they will have less net energy each year to do all the work essential to the survival of complex societies. We are entering a new era, as different from the industrial era as the latter ... Read more

    $26.99 CAD

  • Politically Incorrect Guide to Global Warming and Environmentalism

    by Christopher C. Horner ...
    InThe Politically Incorrect Guide(tm) to Global Warming and Environmentalism, Christopher C. Horner tears the cover off the Left's manipulation of environmental issues for political purposes--and lays out incontrovertible evidence for the fact that catastrophic man-made global warming is just more Chicken-Little hysteria, not actual science. He explains why, although Al Gore and his cronies among ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • No-Nonsense Guide to Degrowth and Sustainability

    by Wayne Ellwood ...
    The world’s addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by progressives as the only possible solution for our economic and social woes. This No-Nonsense Guide looks deeper into the idea of economic growth–to trace its history ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Ecology and Socialism

    Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis

    by Chris Williams ...
    Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper adjustments. Ecology and Socialism argues that time still remains to save humanity and the planet, but only by building social movements for ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • State of the World 2013

    Is Sustainability Still Possible?

    by The Worldwatch Institute ...
    Series series State of the World
    Every day, we are presented with a range of “sustainable” products and activities—from “green” cleaning supplies to carbon offsets—but with so much labeled as “sustainable,” the term has become essentially sustainababble, at best indicating a practice or product slightly less damaging than the conventional alternative. Is it time to abandon the concept altogether, or can we find an accurate way to ... Read more

    $57.99 CAD