Playbook for Progress References

Check out these references to learn more about the content featured in Playbook for Progress (46.2).


Research Digest

Frequent Flyer Club – More Like Privileged Polluter Club 

1https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-56582094

Carbon Footprint of Zoom Meetings and Netflix Streaming

1https://www.thedailystar.net/environment/climate-change/news/turning-camera-during-virtual-meetings-environment-friendly-study-says-2031133

Dear Sports, Drop the Carbon Sponsorship Deals

1https://www.bbc.com/sport/56472720?fbclid=IwAR2iJ8T3G4UhLVqLs6jjIB0uPHnMNa3xHcJiSAQCJiiFhC-rLiudxWvra8Q

Coca-Cola, Pepsico & Nestle – The Most Polluting Companies Worldwide 

1https://www.breakfreefromplastic.org/globalbrandauditreport2020/

2https://www.newplasticseconomy.org/projects/global-commitment/signatories

Human Ingenuity Strikes Again!

1https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-scotland-business-50146801

2https://gravitricity.com/


Are You Paying Attention?

“Paying Attention: Big Data and Social Advertising as Barriers to Ecological Change” in Sustainability 2020, 12(24), 10589; https://doi.org/10.3390/su122410589


Playing Chicken

1http://www.catalyst.org/research/women-in-management

2http://www.unwomen.org/en/what-we-do/leadership-and-political-participation/facts-and-figures

3http://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/drinking-water

4http://www.worldvision.ca/stories/food/world-hunger-facts-how-to-help#:%7E:text=For%20the%20third%20year%20in,people%20live%20in%20developing%20countries

5http://www.fao.org/3/ar591e/ar591e.pdf

6http://www.worldbank.org/en/topic/water-in-agriculture

7Same as note iii

8http://www.ccl.org/articles/leading-effectively-articles/7-reasons-want-women-workplace/

9http://www.mckinsey.com/~/media/mckinsey/business%20functions/organization/our%20insights/delivering%20through%20diversity/delivering-through-diversity_full-report.ashx#:~:text=We%20observed%20a%20positive%20correlation,and%20on%20driving%20business%20outcomes

10Same as note ix

11http://www.weforum.org/projects/closing-the-gender-gap-accelerators

12http://www.canada.ca/en/canadian-heritage/campaigns/federal-anti-racism-secretariat/facts-figures.html

13Powell, James. “Scientists Reach 100% Consensus on Anthropogenic Global Warming.” Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, vol. 37, no. 4, 2017, pp. 183–84. Crossref, doi:10.1177/0270467619886266

14http://www.epi.org/publication/ceo-compensation-2018


Toxic Men, Toxic Earth, Toxic Futures

1https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GDCHFRzghY

2Steffen, W., Richardson, K., Rockström, J., Cornell, S., Fetzer, I., Bennett, E., et al. (2015). Planetary boundaries: Guiding human development on a changing planet. Science (New York, N.Y.), 348(6240), 1217. 

3O’Neill, D. W., Fanning, A. L., Lamb, W. F., & Steinberger, J. K. (2018). A good life for all within planetary boundaries. Nature Sustainability, 1, 88–95.

4Antal, M., & Van Den Bergh, J. C. J. M. (2014). Green growth and climate change: conceptual and empirical considerations. Climate Policy, 16(2), 165–177. 

5Hickel, J., & Kallis, G. (2019). Is Green Growth Possible? New Political Economy, 1–18. 

6Gomez-Baggethun, E., & Naredo, J. M. (2015). In search of lost time : the rise and fall of limits to growth in international sustainability policy. Sustainability Science, 10(3), 385–395. 

7Pollard, S. (1971). The Idea of Progress: History and Society. Harmondsworth: Pengun Books.

8Heilbroner, R. (1995). Visions of the Future: The Distant Past, Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.

9Layard, R. (2005). Happiness: Lessons from A New Science. London: Penguin.

10Victor, P. A. (2019). Managing without Growth: Slower by Design, not Disaster (Second Edi). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.

11Picketty, T. (2014). Capital in the 21st century. Cambridge, UK: Harvard University Press.

12Bakker, I. (2007). Social Reproduction and the Constitution of a Gendered Political Economy. New Political Economy, 12(4), 541–556.

13Collard, R., & Dempsey, J. (2018). Accumulation by difference-making : an anthropocene story , starring witches. Gender, Place & Culture, 0(0), 1–16. 

14Federici, S. (2009). Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body and Primitive Accumulation. Brooklyn, NY: Automedia.

15Mies, M. (1986). Patriarchy and Accumulation on a World Scale. London, UK: Zed Books.

16O’Brien, M. (1983). Naming Our Experience: Mary O’Brien on the Politics of Reproduction. Healthsharing: A Canadian Women’s Health Quarterly, (Summer 1983), 11–14.

17International Labour Organization. (2018). Care Work and Care Jobs: For the future of decent work. Geneva, Switzerland.

18Criado Perez, C. (2019). Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men. New York: Abrams Press.

19Besen-Cassino, Y., & Cassino, D. (2014). Division of House Chores and the Curious Case of Cooking: The Effects of Earning Inequality on House Chores among Dual-Earner Couples. International Journal of Gender Studies, 3(6), 25–53. 

20Eagly, A.H., 1987. Sex Differences in Social Behavior: A Social-Role Interpretation. Erlbaum, Hillsdale, NJ.

21Callegari, J., Liedgren, P., Kullberg, C., Liedgren, P., & Kullberg, C. (2019). Gendered debt – a scoping study review of research on debt acquisition and management in single and couple households och hantering av skulder. European Journal of Social Work, 0(0), 1–13. 

22Swim, J., Gillis, A., & Hamaty, K. (2019). Gender Bending and Gender Conformity: The Social Consequences of Engaging in Feminine and Masculine Pro-Environmental Behaviors. Sex Roles, 82, 363–385.

23Brough, A. R., Wilkie, J. E. B., Ma, J., Isaac, M. S., & Gal, D. (2015). Is Eco-Friendly Unmanly? The green-feminine stereotype and its effect on sustainable consumption. Journal of Consumer Research, 1–51.

24Rozin, P., Hormes, J. M., Faith, M. S., & Wansink, B. (2012). Is Meat Male? A Quantitative Multimethod Framework to Establish Metaphoric Relationships. Journal of Consumer Research, 39(3), 629–643. https://doi.org/10.1086/664970

25Ruby, M. B. (2012). Vegetarianism. A blossoming field of study. Appetite, 58(1), 141–150. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2011.09.019

26Pohjolainen, P., Vinnari, M., & Jokinen, P. (2015). Consumers’ perceived barriers to following a plant-based diet. British Food Journal, 117(3), 1150–1167. https://doi.org/10.1108/BFJ-09-2013-0252

27Adams, C. J. (2016). The Sexual Politics of Meat. New York: Bloomsbury Academic.

28Loughnan, S., Haslam, N., & Bastian, B. (2010). The role of meat consumption in the denial of moral status and mind to meat animals. Appetite, 55(1), 156–159. 

29Jung, K., Shavitt, S., Viswanathan, M. and Hilbe, J.M. (2014). Female hurricanes are deadlier than male hurricanes. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 11(24): 8782-8787.

30Swim, J. K., Vescio, T. K., Dahl, J. L., & Zawadzki, S. J. (2018). Gendered discourse about climate change policies. Global Environmental Change, 48(December 2017), 216–225. 

31Gaard, G. (2001). Women, Water, Energy. Organization & Environment, 14(2), 157–172. 

32Anshelm, J., & Hultman, M. (2014). A green fatwā? Climate change as a threat to the masculinity of industrial modernity. NORMA: International Journal for Masculinity Studies, 9(2), 84–96. 

33https://newrepublic.com/article/154879/misogyny-climate-deniers


“CANADA SCORES FOR THE ENVIRONMENT!”

1https://www.sportingnews.com/ca/nba/news/nba-finals-2019-nearly-half-of-all-canadians-watched-the-raptors-win-game-6/1dkz8a0ldan4e13r6jdgf6ruhx

2https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/canadians-have-world-s-largest-gender-gap-on-climate-change-perceptions-un-survey-finds-1.5283851

3https://www.statista.com/statistics/1018814/sports-fans-usa-gender/


Building Rainbow Bridges

1http://internap.hrw.org/features/features/lgbt_laws/

2https://academic.oup.com/shm/article/33/3/1001/5265310

3https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Coming_out_and_staying_in_industry_How_sexual_orientation_and_gender_identity_matters_in_construction_employment/9439652

4https://www.architectsjournal.co.uk/archive/survey-results-homophobia-remains-rife-in-construction-industry

5https://www.newcivilengineer.com/business-culture/survey-lifts-lid-on-homophobia-in-the-sector/8687868.article?search=https%3a%2f%2fwww.newcivilengineer.com%2fsearcharticles%3fparametrics%3d%26keywords%3dLGBT%26PageSize%3d10%26cmd%3dGoToPage%26val%3d3%26SortOrder%3d1

6https://www.newcivilengineer.com/business-culture/equality-survey-sustained-prejudice/10014569.article?search=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.newcivilengineer.com%2Fsearcharticles%3Fqsearch%3D1%26keywords%3DLGBT+survey

7https://www.newcivilengineer.com/business-culture/attitudes-to-lgbt-in-construction-third-annual-survey/10023110.article

8https://repository.lboro.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Coming_out_and_staying_in_industry_How_sexual_orientation_and_gender_identity_matters_in_construction_employment/9439652


Higher Stakes

1http://www.hp.ca/sustainableimpact


A Game of Snakes and Ladders

1https://www.tvo.org/article/glen-murray-was-one-of-a-kind-and-thats-mostly-a-compliment


The Enterprising Ecopreneur

1https://www.theceomagazine.com/business/start-ups-entrepreneurs/ecopreneurs/


Called to Duty

1https://www.blogto.com/city/2020/12/19-year-old-running-youngest-city-councillor-toronto-history/


Borealis

1https://www.nfb.ca/film/borealis/


Diary in the Underappreciation of Water

1https://www.eco.ca/training/career-profiles/limnologist/#:~:text=Limnologists%20are%20scientists%20who%20study,algae%2C%20microbes%2C%20and%20invertebrates


Quantum Leap Needed

1http://www.greeneconomy.ca