This crazy time : living our environmental challenge

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ISBN: 9780307399786 (bound) :
Physical Description: print
[xiii], 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm.
Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2011.

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	Part I: Blockades -- Canada has rainforests? : awakening as an environmentalist -- The black hole : setting up camp in Clayoquot Sound -- Surfing the backlash : going to jail -- The moral high ground : working with First Nations -- Part II: Boycotts -- The waterbed effect : beginning the markets campaign -- Getting out of dodge : learning how to campaign -- Redefining protection politics : transforming the mid-coast timber supply area into the Great Bear Rainforest -- Part III: Boardrooms -- Dancing with the enemy : learning to see people, not positions -- Hard on the issues, soft on the people : creating forestethics -- Every sixty seconds : saving Canada's Boreal forest -- Victoria's dirty secret : moving from lumber to lingerie -- Green is the new black : campaigning in tinseltown -- Part IV: Climate reckoning -- The atmosphere doesn't negotiate : changing my focus to the key challenge of our age -- Canada's mordor : visiting the Alberta tar sands -- The suicide pact : attending the Copenhagen climate conference -- Shades of green : searching for radical pragmatism -- Living green : reconciling the big stuff with our daily lives -- Back in the mother ship : returning to Greenpeace International -- Conclusion : the pointy end.
Additional Physical Form available Note:	Issued also in electronic format.