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2010

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  New Energy 36.1

2009

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  Work 35.6
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  Your Town - Sustainable By Design 35.5
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  The New Ecology 35.4
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  Books from the Deep Green 35.3
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  Biofuelling the Future 35.2
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  Size Matters 35.1

2008

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  Ideas Worth Stealing 34.5-6
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  Sustainability Taken Seriously 34.4
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  Saving the Land that Feeds Us 34.3
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  The Best in Books 34.2
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  Out of the Box 34.1

2007

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  Environmental Education 33.5
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  Myth of Water Abundance 33.4
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  Measuring Progress and Building Heritage 33.2-3
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  Greening Politics 33.1

2006

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  Creative Communities 32.4-5
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  Thought for Food 32.3
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  Rescuing International Aid 32.2
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  Zero Waste 32.1

2005

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  Climate Repair 31.4/5
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  Treating Medicine 31.3
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  Success 31.2
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  Better Money 31.1

2004

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  Green Buildings 30.5
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  Earth Invasion 30.4
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  Out of the Woods 30.3
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  Shrinking Fisheries 30.2
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  Energy 30.1

2003

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  Food for All 29.4
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  Smart Growth 29.3
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  Trusting the Tap 29.2
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  Colours of Green 29.1

2002

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  Just Visiting 28.4
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  Saving Place 28.3
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  Sustaining Livelihoods 28.2
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  Children's Health 28.1

2001

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  Something Fishy 27.4
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  Eros & Nature 27.3
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  Consuming Culture 27.2
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  Green Jobs, Good Work 27.1

2000

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  The Faces of New Eco-Activism 26.4
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  The End of Sprawl 26.3
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  Climate Control 26.2
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  The Next Industrial Revolution 26.1

1999

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  Grand Manan / Blue Box / National Parks 25.4
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  Environment and Health 25.3
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  Restoration and Community 25.2
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  Reaping What We Sow 25.1

1998

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  Climate Change 24.4
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  Planet Youth 24.3
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  Voluntary Initiatives 24.2
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  Cars vs. Transit 24.1

1997

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  Biodiversity 23.4
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  Ethical Wood 23.3
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  Power and Development 23.2
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  Framing Nature 23.1

1996

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  Diamonds Aren't Forever 22.4
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  Green Taxes 22.3
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  Green Communities 22.2
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  Community Economic Development and Trade 22.1

1995

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  Economic Change for People and the Environment 21.4
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  Competing Perceptions 21.3
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  Reflections on Ecofeminism 21.2
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  Sustainability and the Market 21.1

1994

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  Regulatory Initiatives and the Environment 20.4
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  Making Sense of the Ecosystem Approach 20.3
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  Citizen Activism: Looking Inside the Environmental Movement 20.2

1993

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  Exploring International Environmental Agreements 20.1
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  Ecofeminism, Sprucebudworms, and Time 19.4
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  Coopertive Approaches to Resource Stewardship 19.3
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  Waste Reduction and Social Change 19.2

1992

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  The Greening: Celebrating 20 Years of Citizen Participation 19.1
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  Correcting Environmental Neglect in the Constitutional Debate 18.4
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  Green(TM) 18.3

1991

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  Aboriginal Peoples and Resource Development 18.2
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  Environmental Liability Insurance and Land Use in the Ecologically Sensible City 18.1
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  Finding A New Voice: Environmental Advoacy and the Arts 17.4

1990

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  Will Sustainable Development Save Our Lakes and Rivers? 17.3
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  What Would A Sustainable Future Look Like? 17.2
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  Can Conservation Strategies Lead to Sustainable Development? 16.4/17.1

1989

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  Is Sustainability Possible Without Equity? 16.3
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  Green Humour: Laugh or Die 16.2
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  Protecting Wildlife 16.1

1988

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  Protesters and Ideologues 15.4
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  Wilderness Conflicts 15.3
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  Natural Justice 15.2
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  Genetic Hazards in the Workplace 15.1

1987

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  Work and Environment in a High Tech World 14.3-4
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  Confronting Bureaucracy 14.2
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  Sustainable Development in Northern Communities 14.1

1986

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  Bhopal Legacies 13.4
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  Saving the Great Lakes 13.3
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  Science and Technology: Survival and Well-Being 13.2
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  Environmental Politics 13.1

1985

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  Environment and Development 12.3-4
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  Environmental Ethics 12.2

1984

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  Soft Energy 12.1

1983

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  Occupational Health 11.3-4
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  The Politics of Acid Rain 11.2

1982

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  Environmental Issues in Alberta 11.1
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  Marx and Environmental Politics 10.4
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  Toxic Wastes 10.2-3

1981

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  Environmental Challenges for the 1980s 10.1
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  Oil Sands, Acid Rain, Nuclear Power 9.4

1980

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  The Conserver Society and Low Income People 9.3
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  Soft Energy Paths Part III / Spruce Budworm 9.2
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  Soft Energy Paths Part II 9.1

1979

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  Soft Energy Paths 8.3-4
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  Behaviour in the "Crunch" 8.2

1978

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  Who Pays Scientists? 8.1
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  The North 7.4
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  Under the Gun: Militarism and the Environment 7.3
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  Pollution Poisoning 7.2

1977

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  Nuclear Energy 7.1
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  Mackenzie Valley Pipeline / Resource Development in Labrador 6.4
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  Stop! You're Killing Me! 6.3
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  Energy Policy Planning / Clearcutting Canada's Forests / Urban Transportation 6.2
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  Special Agricultural Issue 6.1

1976

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  Food and Shelter; Country and City 5.3-4
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  Industrial Agriculture / Nuclear Power 5.2
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  Water / Minamata 5.1

1975

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  Nuclear Power / Real Limits to Growth 4.4
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  The Selling of the Skagit 4.3
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  Limits to Growth 4.2

1974

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  Northern Development 4.1
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  Wilderness & Culture 3.4
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  World Population Year 3.3
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  James Bay / Air Pollution Policy 3.2

1973

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  Non-Renewable Resources 3.1
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  Energy and Power 2.4
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  Subury, Nickel & Inco / Sudbury Rain 2.3
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  Planning in Vermont / Economy, Tchnology and Ecology 2.2

1972

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  People or Planes? 2.1
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  Energy / James Bay / Lake Louise 1.4
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  Nixon & the Environment 1.3

1971

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  Ottawa Lumber Industry / Recycling 1.2
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  Politics of Ecology / Pollution 1.1