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''How Did We Get into this Mess?'' assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, the author also develops(...)
How did we get into this mess? Politics, equality, nature
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''How Did We Get into this Mess?'' assesses the state we are now in: the devastation of the natural world, the crisis of inequality, the corporate takeover of nature, our obsessions with growth and profit and the decline of the political debate over what to do. While his diagnosis of the problems in front of us is clear-sighted and reasonable, the author also develops solutions to challenge the politics of fear. How do we stand up to the powerful when they seem to have all the weapons? What can we do to prepare our children for an uncertain future?
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Since ''The Sacred Balance'' was first published in 1997 global warming has become a major issue, with alarming effects being observed on all continents and in the world's oceans. Scientists have also made significant discoveries in various realms, including the state of world ecosystems, the science behind the mother/baby interaction, and the workings of the brain. In(...)
The Sacred Balance: Rediscovering our place in nature, updated and expanded
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Since ''The Sacred Balance'' was first published in 1997 global warming has become a major issue, with alarming effects being observed on all continents and in the world's oceans. Scientists have also made significant discoveries in various realms, including the state of world ecosystems, the science behind the mother/baby interaction, and the workings of the brain. In this new and extensively revised and amplified edition of his bestselling book, David Suzuki reflects on these changes and examines what they mean for our place in the world. His basic message remains the same: we are creatures of the Earth, utterly dependent on its elements, which are not just external factors, but incorporated into our very essence.
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"The Nuclear Culture Source Book" serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. The book brings together contemporary art practices investigating the nuclear anthropocene,(...)
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November 2016
The nuclear culture source book
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"The Nuclear Culture Source Book" serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. The book brings together contemporary art practices investigating the nuclear anthropocene, nuclear sites and materiality, along with important questions of radiological inheritance, nuclear modernity and the philosophical concept of radiation as a hyperobject.
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L'âge de la transition
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La notion de « transition écologique », en exprimant la nécessité d’adapter nos modes de vie au respect des limites de la biosphère, a progressivement supplanté celle de « développement durable », jugée trop vague et consensuelle par ses détracteurs. Mais des questions subsistent, et non des moindres : vers quoi nos sociétés peuvent-elles « transiter » et quels sont les(...)
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October 2016
L'âge de la transition
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La notion de « transition écologique », en exprimant la nécessité d’adapter nos modes de vie au respect des limites de la biosphère, a progressivement supplanté celle de « développement durable », jugée trop vague et consensuelle par ses détracteurs. Mais des questions subsistent, et non des moindres : vers quoi nos sociétés peuvent-elles « transiter » et quels sont les chemins de cette transition ? Sous la direction de Dominique Bourg, Alain Kaufmann et Dominique Méda, les plus grands spécialistes de la transition écologique – économiste, physicien, philosophe, sociologue, ingénieur ou biologiste – ont apporté des réponses concrètes à ces questions urgentes lors du colloque de Cerisy « Quelles transitions écologiques ? », qui s’est tenu du 30 juin au 15 juillet 2015. Après avoir analysé les obstacles à la transition, les auteurs en tracent les voies. Des positions philosophiques et juridiques à embrasser aux technologies à privilégier en passant par la refonte de notre modèle social, les monnaies complémentaires ou le financement des investissements à mettre en œuvre, tous les aspects sont envisagés pour imaginer la transition écologique.
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The Greenpeace to Amchitka
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Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than forty countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism. This is the story of how Greenpeace came to be.
The Greenpeace to Amchitka
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Greenpeace is known around the world for its activism and education surrounding environmental and biodiversity issues. With a presence in more than forty countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, and the Pacific, Greenpeace is undoubtedly a dominant force in the realm of environmental activism. This is the story of how Greenpeace came to be.
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great(...)
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November 2016
The peace in peril: the real cost of the Site C dam
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Equal parts travel adventure, history and journalistic exploration, ''The Peace in Peril'' is a story about the dubious trade-off of hydro power for resources like timber and farmland, but also far more: the Peace valley has been a prosperous home to people for eleven thousand years. How will lives, human and otherwise, be erased or irrevocably altered when the next great flood rises up to engulf the Peace River valley?
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''Growing Resistance'' is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, Emily Eaton demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was(...)
Growing resistance : Canadian farmers and the politics of genetically modified wheat
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''Growing Resistance'' is the remarkable story of how Canadian farmers led an international coalition to a major victory for the anti-GM movement by defeating the introduction of Monsanto’s genetically modified wheat. Through interviews with producers, industry organizations, and biochemical companies, Emily Eaton demonstrates how the inclusion of producer interests was integral to the coalition’s success in voicing concerns about environmental implications, international market opposition to GMOs, and the lack of transparency and democracy in Canadian biotech policy and regulation.
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The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not taking fishermen’s concerns into account(...)
Managed annihilation: an unnatural history of the Newfoundland cod collapse
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The commercial cod fishery in Newfoundland and Labrador was once the most successful in the world. When it collapsed in 1992 -- causing the largest single-day layoff in Canadian history and irrevocable ecological damage -- fishermen, scholars, and scientists pointed to failures in management such as uncontrolled harvesting and not taking fishermen’s concerns into account as likely culprits.nExamining the history of commercial cod fisheries in Newfoundland and Labrador from the mid-nineteenth century to the aftermath of the cod moratorium, "Managed annihilation" makes the case that the idea of natural resource management was itself the problem. The collapse occurred when the fisheries were ostensibly managed by the state, and the fishery has still not recovered nearly twenty years later. Although the collapse of northern cod raised doubts among policy-makers about their ability to understand, predict, and control nature, their ultimate goal of control through management has not wavered -- it has simply been transferred from wild fish to fishermen and farmed cod.
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Dans les décombres laissés par les tempêtes meurtrières de 2017, les habitants de Porto Rico rebâtissent leur monde et se mesurent à de puissants adversaires dans une lutte pour l’avenir : pour qui reconstruira-t-on l’île ? Pour ceux qui y vivent ou pour ceux qui veulent y faire fortune ? Après un désastre écologique comme ceux qui promettent de frapper partout et de plus(...)
Le choc des utopies : Porto Rico contre les capitalistes du désastre
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Dans les décombres laissés par les tempêtes meurtrières de 2017, les habitants de Porto Rico rebâtissent leur monde et se mesurent à de puissants adversaires dans une lutte pour l’avenir : pour qui reconstruira-t-on l’île ? Pour ceux qui y vivent ou pour ceux qui veulent y faire fortune ? Après un désastre écologique comme ceux qui promettent de frapper partout et de plus en plus souvent, deux visions du monde s’affrontent : celle d’ultrariches libertariens, déterminés à transformer l’île en un paradis où ils pourraient vivre à l’abri des tumultes d’un monde dont ils ont su tirer profit, et celle d’une population déterminée à reconstruire ses communautés autrement, pour mieux vivre ensemble, et mieux vivre dans le monde.
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Les réflexions sur la propriété sont aujourd’hui dominées par l’économie orthodoxe, qui soutient que l’appropriation privée est optimale en termes d’efficacité productive et de conservation des ressources. Face à ce courant, un mouvement a émergé en faveur des communs – de la nature, de la connaissance et de la société –, pensés comme outils d’une transition vers plus de(...)
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January 2019
Posséder la nature : environnement et propriété dans l'histoire
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Les réflexions sur la propriété sont aujourd’hui dominées par l’économie orthodoxe, qui soutient que l’appropriation privée est optimale en termes d’efficacité productive et de conservation des ressources. Face à ce courant, un mouvement a émergé en faveur des communs – de la nature, de la connaissance et de la société –, pensés comme outils d’une transition vers plus de soutenabilité et de justice sociale. Mais, malgré son importance, ce mouvement semble limité par une absence de réflexion d’ensemble sur la constellation complexe et changeante des formes d’appropriation de la nature. Or depuis trois décennies, d’autres travaux ont renouvelé notre vision de l’histoire longue et conflictuelle de la propriété, saisie dans son rapport à l’environnement : ce sont ces voix que l’ouvrage voudrait faire entendre.
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