Local Activism for Global Climate Justice : The Great Lakes Watershed (Hardcover)

1. Introduction: Climate Justice, the Great Lakes, and the Earth Patricia E. Perkins (with Martin Sers) Part 1. Fairness in Public Policies 2. Carbon Cuts, Not Job Cuts: Steps Toward a Just Transition in Canada Alia Karim 3. Why Ending Oil and Gas Production in Canada is Essential to a Just Transition Both at Home and Abroad Daniel Horen Greenford 4. Should the Poor Pay More? Community Energy Planning and Energy Poverty in Ontario Douglas Baxter 5. Vulnerable Communities and Municipal Climate Change Policy in Toronto Monica Krista de Vera 6. The Right to Remain: Community-Led Responses to Land Dispossession in the Context of Global and Local Climate Injustice Meagan Dellavilla 7. International Advocacy for Climate Victims in Bangladesh Nowrin Tabassum 8. Refugee Sponsorship and Canada’s Immigration Policy in Times of Climate Change Michaela Hynie, Prateep Kumar Nayak, Teresa Auntora Gomes and Ifrah Abdillahi 9. Out of Credit: Climate Finance in the Face of Climate Debt Alicia Richins Part 2. Personal Action and Local Activism 10. The Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement: A View from Toronto Aaron Saad 11. I Eat, Therefore I’m Evil: The Personal Food Dilemma of Big-Picture Thinking Caitlin Bradley Morgan 12. Free Food for Justice Sam Bliss 13. Building Social Capital to Increase Disaster Resilience Stephen Clare 14. Cultivating Community Resilience to Climate Change Impacts: Lessons Learned from a Community-Based Response to Tropical Storm Irene in Vermont Kelly Hamshaw and JoEllen Calderara 15. After the Flood: Coming Together for Toronto Laura Gilbert and Claire-Helene Heese-Boutin Part 3. Education, Consciousness-Raising, And Collective Visions 16. Aamjiwnaang Toxic Tours and Climate Justice Lindsay Gray 17. The Great Lakes Commons: Working with Water and Adapting Our Movement to the Great Lakes Paul Baines 18. Planting Seeds for Grassroots Activism with Youth Barbara Sniderman 19. Reconciliation in The Watershed Beth Lorimer 20. Climate Justice Montreal: Who We Are and What We Do Jen Gobby 21. Listen, the Youth are Speaking: The Youth and Climate Justice Initiative of Western New York Lynda H. Schneekloth, Rebekah A. Williams, and Emily Dyett 22. Education Reform in The Struggle for Climate Justice Gabriel Yahya Haage and Natalia Britto dos Santos 23. Photographs, Performance, and Protest: The Fight for Climate Justice through Art Alison Adams 24. Conclusion: Moving Ahead for Climate Justice Patricia E. Perkins