Environment & Sustainability
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Worlds at Stake
Climate Politics, Ideology, and Justice
Our response to the climate crisis is powerfully shaped by our ideas about how the world works and how it ought to.
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Future on Fire
Capitalism and the Politics of Climate Change
This book argues that only the power of disruptive mass social movements has the potential to force governments to make the changes we need, so supporters of climate justice should commit to building them.
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Ruby Red Skies
A betrayed middle-aged mother embarks on a quest that takes her straight into B.C.’s wildfires and her ancient Mughal ancestry.
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To Be A Water Protector
The Rise of the Wiindigoo Slayers
Winona LaDuke is a leader in cultural-based sustainable development strategies, renewable energy, sustainable food systems and Indigenous rights. To Be a Water Protector, explores issues that have been central to her activism for many years — sacred Mother Earth, our despoiling of Earth and the activism at Standing Rock and opposing Line 3.
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Finding Our Niche
Toward A Restorative Human Ecology
In Finding Our Niche, Philip A. Loring explores the tragedies of Western society and offers examples and analyses that can guide us in reconciling our damaging settler-colonial histories and tremendous environmental missteps in favor of a more sustainable and just vision for the future.
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More Powerful Together
Conversations With Climate Activists and Indigenous Land Defenders
How can social movements help bring about large-scale systems change? In reflecting on what’s working and what’s not working in these movements, taking inventory of the obstacles hindering efforts, and imagining the strategies for building a powerful movement of movements, a common theme emerges: relationships are crucial to building movements strong enough to transform systems.
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Thirty Years of Failure
Understanding Canadian Climate Policy
How did Canada go from climate leader to climate villain?
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Civilization Critical
Energy, Food, Nature, and the Future
“A thoughtful and thoroughly documented analysis of the runaway train we are all aboard. Anyone worried about the track ahead should read it. Those not worried should read it more than once.” —Ronald Wright, author of A Short History of Progress
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There’s Something In The Water
Environmental Racism in Indigenous & Black Communities
“Reckoning with Canada’s denial of its colonial past, present and erasure of marginalized communities, this book is a must-read for anyone interested in the impacts of environmental racism in Canada and beyond.” — Elliot Page
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About Canada: The Environment
As the Earth veers toward a biological tipping point, as resources like water, fish, oil and natural gas become scarcer and as climate change threatens our survival, how is Canada responding? What kind of future can Canadians expect? What changes need to be made?
