This book describes the field of material ecofeminism, provides an overview of the land question, and explores how reigning discourses of “sustainable development” have led to a commodification of ...

Environmental Activism on the Ground draws upon a wide range of interdisciplinary scholarship to examine small-scale, local environmental activism, paying particular attention to Indigenous experiences. ...

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, ...

Part environmental manifesto, part travelogue, and part diplomatic odyssey, Quenching the Dragon arms readers with vital new perspectives on global hydrology and sustainability in the context of how former ...

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 ...

The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than 500 years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, ...

Hardly a day goes by without news of the extinction or endangerment of yet another animal species, followed by urgent but largely unheeded calls for action. An eloquent denunciation of the failures of ...

What happens when you try to recreate a woolly mammoth—fascinating science, or conservation catastrophe? In this provocative and enlightening book, Britt Wray explores the controversial new science ...

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, ...

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 ...