This crazy time : living our environmental challenge
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- ISBN: 9780307399786 (bound) :
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[xiii], 348 p., [16] p. of plates : ill ; 24 cm. - Publisher: Toronto : Knopf Canada, 2011.
Content descriptions
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. |
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Subject: | Berman, Tzeporah -- 1969- Women environmentalists -- Canada -- Biography Women conservationists -- Canada -- Biography |
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From one of the world's most controversial campaigners, This Crazy Time is the No Logo of the NEW environmental movement, an essential must-read that combines Bill Bryson's personable style and humour with Naomi Klein's hard-hitting activism and research.
Passionate, profound, inspiring and funny, Berman is inspiring people from all walks of life to get off the sidelines and fight the good fight--and win. This unique book--part manifesto from a leader, part humorous activist memoir from a soccer mom--offers a wryly honest, behind the scenes, ultimately uplifting look at the state of the planet. For almost 20 years, Tzeporah Berman has been one of our most influential environmentalists. A founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, she was instrumental in shaping the tactics and concerns of the modern environmental movement.
In her early 20s she faced nearly one thousand criminal charges and 6 years in prison for her role organizing blockades in Canada's rainforest. With ForestEthics she took on Victoria's Secret with a photo of a chainsaw-wielding lingerie model, convincing the catalogue manufacturer to stop using paper made from old-growth forests. She then transformed her tactics and sat down with CEOs and political leaders to reshape their policies and practices. She participated in saving over 12 million acres of endangered forests, including Canada's Great Bear Rainforest, and has campaigned against the development of Canada's oil sands. In her new role at Greenpeace International she is fighting the problem of our time: climate change, including researching the impacts of the Gulf Oil Spill and protesting oil drilling in the Arctic. As a concerned mother, her book is an impassioned plea for a better world.