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Monthly Archives: June 2012
The End of Growth
The End of Growth by Jeff Rubin. Random House Canada 2012. Jeff Rubin has good news and bad news. The bad news is that the cheap oil that once came gushing out of the ground like a geyser is mostly … Continue reading
Posted in Non Fiction
Tagged big oil subsidies, cap and trade, climate, close libraries, emissions, environment, government deficit, greenhouse gas, Jeff Rubin, kenneth boulding, Keystone pipeline, Kyoto, limits to growth, Linda McQuaig, Northern Gateway pipeline, Richard Heinberg, science, tar sands, The End of Growth, The Trouble with Billionaires, triple digit oil
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Living Downstream
Living Downstream: An Ecologist’s Personal Investigation of Cancer and the Environment by Sandra Steingraber. Da Capo Press 2010 (Second Edition)(First Edition 1997). There was once a village along a river. The people who lived there were very kind. These residents, … Continue reading
Posted in Non Fiction
Tagged aromatic amines, cancer and the environment, carcinogen, carcinogens, celluloid, DDT, Living Downstream, local farming, local food, organic farming, pesticide use, petrochemicals, petroleum based fertilizer, plastics, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, precautionary approach, release of carcinogenic chemicals, Sandra Steingraber, sythetic chemicals, Wingspread Statement on the Precautionary Principle
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The Leap
The Leap: How to Survive and Thrive in the Sustainable Economy by Chris Turner. Random House Canada 2011. Around Ottawa, and no doubt across the country, new housing tracts continue to spring up like mushrooms. Many feature McMansions complete with … Continue reading
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