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Whose Water Is It, Anyway?

Former senior water advisor to the UN General Assembly Maude Barlow chronicles the history of the Blue Communities movement and explains how regular citizens can become water activists within their local ...

Renewal

By (author) Andrés R Edwards
Foreword by Marc Bekoff
Categories: Applied ecology

Renewal explores the science behind why being in nature makes us feel alive and helps us thrive. Backed by cutting-edge research in cognitive science, Edwards weaves stories that reveal nature’s genius, ...

Total Transition

Written in the form of a travelogue, Total Transition provides a whirlwind look at the global growth of renewable energy—highlighting exciting developments in solar and wind energy in Canada, India, ...

Big Lonely Doug

In the tradition of John Vaillant’s modern classic The Golden Spruce comes the story of Big Lonely Doug, one of the largest trees in Canada whose unlikely survival and discovery sheds light on the turbulence ...

Magnetic North

By (author) Jenna Butler
Categories: Travel writing
Series: Wayfarer

From the endangered Canadian boreal forest to the environmentally threatened Svalbard archipelago off the coast of Norway, Butler takes us on a sea voyage that connects continents and traces the impacts ...

The Hard Work of Hope

The Climate Nexus (RMB, 2015) analyzed and explored the economic and social realities facing water, food, energy, and biodiversity. The Hard Work of Hope continues this narrative and seeks to develop ...

The Rights of Nature

By (author) David R. Boyd
Categories: Animals and society

Around the world, more and more laws are being passed recognizing that ecosystems have legally enforceable rights. And if nature has rights, then humans have responsibilities. In The Rights of Nature, ...

Nature, Place, and Story

National historic sites commemorate decisive moments in the making of Canada. But seen through an environmental lens, these sites become artifacts of a bigger story: the occupation and transformation ...

Bringing Home Animals, 2nd edition

Bringing Home Animals is an ethnography detailing what the author learned as a result of travelling and working with Iinuu (Cree) hunters and their families in Northern Quebec. The study was conducted ...

Sauver la planète une bouchée à la fois

Dans ce guide pratique, le nutritionniste urbain Bernard Lavallée offre une foule de conseils, trucs et astuces pour que le respect et la protection de l’environnement se fassent aussi dans notre assiette. ...