Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() Building CommunityTwelve Principles for a Healthy Future |
Strong local communities are the foundation of a healthy, participatory, and resilient society. Rather than looking to national governments, corporations, or new technologies to solve … | James S. Gruber | 354 | 2020 | View |
![]() Clean Money RevolutionReinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism |
By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway and the ramifications will remake … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 274 | 2017 | View |
![]() Dry RunPreventing the Next Urban Water Crisis |
In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for … | Jerry Yudelson | 312 | 2010 | View |
![]() Fostering Sustainable BehaviorAn Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition) |
We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 184 | 2011 | View |
![]() In The Business of ChangeHow Social Entrepreneurs are Disrupting Business as Usual |
Our communities are facing the fallout from the demise of vital industry, bankrupt economies, bad policy or policing, and political mismanagement. People are looking for answers, and the … | Elisa Birnbaum | 195 | 2018 | View |
![]() PaybackDebt and the Shadow Side of Wealth |
Legendary poet, novelist, and essayist Margaret Atwood gives us a surprising look at the topic of debt — a timely subject during our current period of economic upheaval, caused by the … | Margaret Atwood | 242 | 2007 | View |
![]() Peak EverythingWaking Up to the Century of Declines |
A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … | Richard Heinberg | 240 | 2010 | View |
![]() Resilience ImperativeCooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy |
We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 400 | 2012 | View |
![]() Toward Sustainable CommunitiesSolutions for Citizens and Their Governments - Fourth Edition |
The need to make our communities sustainable is more urgent than ever before. Toward Sustainable Communities remains the single most useful resource for creating vibrant, healthy, equitable, … | Marc Roseland | 257 | 2012 | View |
![]() Transforming or Reforming CapitalismTowards a Theory of Community Economic Development |
Growing worldwide interest in community economic development has led to a blossoming of “how to” manuals,as well as analyses of co-operatives, development corporations, gender, … | John Loxley | 168 | 2007 | View |
From ![]() Ancient BalancesFrom: Payback |
Payback is not a book about practical debt management or high finance, although it does touch upon these subjects. Rather, it is an investigation into the idea of debt as an ancient and central … | Margaret Atwood | 43 | 2007 | $5.16 Add |
From ![]() Foreward, Prefaces and IntroductionFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
The world of money, finance, and investment is ripe for major reform and reinvention. We’re seeing more and more clean food, clean energy, and clean buildings. Now clean money is also on … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 22 | 2017 | $2.20 Add |
From ![]() ForwardFrom: Peak Everything |
Back in 2005, Richard Heinberg and I both published books on peak oil and its implications for everyday life in technologically “advanced” societies. We saw the general situation very … | James Howard Kunstler | 3 | 2010 | $0.30 Add |
From ![]() Forward and PrefaceFrom: Dry Run |
For this book, I’ve chosen to focus on my first love in the professional world, water, a subject to which I devoted a considerable part of my early professional career. With the arrival of … | Jerry Yudelson | 7 | 2010 | $0.70 Add |
From ![]() Fostering Sustainable Behavior |
Behavior change is the cornerstone of sustainability. Whether you are working on protecting wetlands, enhancing water or energy efficiency, altering modal transportation choices, or any of the … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 13 | 2011 | $0.13 Add |
From ![]() Introduction |
- | John Loxley | 6 | 2007 | $0.60 Add |