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Critical Pedagogy, Ecoliteracy & Planetary Crisis
As globalization penetrates the hearts and souls of many lives and as transnational capitalist interests work beyond the sovereignty of many states to weaken both socioeconomic and environmental regulations, accelerating people's impoverishment along with ecological catastrophe as a result, the world needs revised thinking and action.
Continue reading...Bottlemania: Big Business, Local Springs, and the Battle Over America’s Drinking Water
7. February 2010
In mid-January, I received a mass email asking me to donate $10 for bottled water and other supplies for participants in an important immigrant rights march in Phoenix.
Continue reading...Winged Migration
31. October 2009
Winged Migration (2001) is a visually stunning “documentary-adventure” that follows several communities of birds on their seasonal migratory journeys. Although the migrations are set to music and the flapping of the birds’ wings can be heard in many scenes, the film is primarily a visual experience. There is very little narration in Winged Migration, which for the most part is shot from the perspective of the migrating birds.
Continue reading...Direct Action: Memoirs of an Urban Guerrilla
12. August 2009
This is a novelized true story by Ann Hansen describing vividly the rise and eventual downfall of the Canadian urban guerrilla group Direct Action. The book is engaging from the start, opening with a dramatic police ambush.
Continue reading...For Kids Who Love Animals: A Guide to Sharing the Planet
12. August 2009
If your children love creative projects, fun facts, and animals of all kinds For Kids Who Love Animals: A Guide to Sharing the Planet will be a great addition to their bookshelf.
Continue reading...Silence of the Songbirds & Where the Wild Things Were
5. August 2009
Part of me cringed the thought of reading yet more tales of humanity’s inclination to extinguish and diminish other life forms. It’s a reaction, I discovered after a quick survey of colleagues, I am not alone in experiencing when confronted with titles such as Silence of the Songbirds and Where the Wild Things Were.
Continue reading...An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in Canada & Defending the Environment
5. August 2009
An Introduction to Environmental Law and Policy in Canada is the perfect book for university or even high-school students who want to understand the basic language of environmental debate. From an outline of environmental protection regimes to endangered species issues and environmental assessment, this text covers a diverse range of themes.
Continue reading...Gardens of Destiny
25. July 2009
If you've ever stood in the grocery store holding two apples in your hand, one organic and one not, and wondered which one to buy, then watching Jocelyn Demers' documentary, Gardens of Destiny, will no doubt help make up your mind.
Continue reading...Guerilla Gardening & Interwoven Wild
16. July 2009
Of all the possible definitions of a garden, I like Don Gayton's best: "A garden is a gift, a celebration and a revelation." Gayton's idea applies equally well to his own efforts, as an ecologist landscaping his suburban yard, as to the more political and activist agenda of guerrilla gardener David Tracey.
Continue reading...Burning Rage of a Dying Planet: Speaking for the Earth Liberation Front
30. June 2009
Craig Rosebraugh was spokesperson for the Animal Liberation Front (ALF) and eventually and predominantly, for the Earth Liberation Front (ELF) from 1997-2001. In Burning Rage of a Dying Planet, Rosebraugh weaves his personal history with activism in Animal rights & Animal liberation with the history of the ALF and ELF.
Continue reading...Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural
20. April 2009
In reading Environmentalism in Popular Culture: Gender, Race, Sexuality and the Politics of the Natural, one cannot help but be reminded of historical blind spots regarding the nature of profit -- a spot progressive idealists miss regularly. One need look no further than something like progressive advocacy of drug legalization as an example of collective amnesia about North American economics.
Continue reading...- Girls Are Not Chicks - Coloring Book
- The Jena 6
- A Movement of Movements: Is another world really possible?
- The Assassination of Fred Hampton: How the FBI and Chicago Police Murdered A Black Panther
- Behind the Mask
- On the Courthouse Lawn: Confronting the Legacy of Twenty-First Century Lynching
- Earthlings
- The Will to Resist
- The Lifelong Activist: Changing the World Without Losing Your Way
- The Angola 3: Black Panthers and the Last Slave Plantation
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