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This crazy time : living our environmental challenge
Record details
- ISBN: 9780307399786 (bound) :
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Physical Description:
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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 |
Available copies
- 5 of 5 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at Prince Rupert Library.
Holds
- 0 current holds with 5 total copies.
Other Formats and Editions
| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Prince Rupert Library | 333.72082 Berm (Text) | 33294001799923 | Adult Non-Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
TZEPORAH BERMAN is a co-founder of ForestEthics and PowerUp Canada, and the former Greenpeace International Climate and Energy Co-Director. She has been designing and managing environmental campaigns for almost twenty years. She is known for her role in coordinating the largest civil disobedience in Canadaâs history, the logging blockades in the rainforests of Clayoquot Sound in 1993, during which she was arrested and charged with 857 counts of criminal aiding and abetting. She is also known for her work in creating unlikely alliances with the logging industry and major paper and wood consumers that have resulted in the permanent protection of millions of acres of old-growth forests. She was one of the experts in Leonardo DiCaprioâs documentary, The 11th Hour. The Royal BC Museum has included her in a permanent exhibition as one of the 150 people who have changed BCâs history. She has been lauded as âCanadaâs Queen of Greenâ in a cover story in Readerâs Digest and was recognized by the Utne Reader as one of 50 Visionaries Who Are Changing Your World.
MARK LEIREN-YOUNG is the author of Never Shoot a Stampede Queen, winner of the 2009 Stephen Leacock Medal for Humour, and The Green ChainâNothing Is Ever Clear Cut. He wrote, directed and produced the award-winning feature film The Green Chain, and wrote and produced the EarthVision awardâwinning TV comedy special Greenpieces. His stage plays have been produced throughout Canada and the US and have also been seen in Europe and Australia. As a journalist he has written for such publications as TIME, Macleanâs and the Utne Reader. Heâs half of the comedy duo Local Anxiety and has released two CDsâGreenpieces and Forgive Us Weâre Canadian.
