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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

From: The New Carbon Architecture

This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and … ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
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Current Trends to an Uncertain Future

Current Trends to an Uncertain Future

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author discusses economic, technological, energy and demographic trends in the world today, and what they may mean for the future. 50 $5.00 Add
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Debt and Sin

Debt and Sin

From: 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 … 42 $5.04 Add
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Debt as Plot

Debt as Plot

From: 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 … 43 $5.16 Add
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Deep Democracy in Kerala
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Deep Democracy in Kerala

From: Civilizing the State

Deep Democracy in Kerala looks at the history of the Indian state of Kerala and how it has become a model of alternatives to economic growth. 16 $1.60 Add
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Developing Strategies - Revisited

Developing Strategies – Revisited

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

The preceding seven chapters introduced a series of behavior change tools that can be incorporated into a communitybased social marketing strategy. To showcase how to utilize these tools, a … 7 $0.70 Add
Dry Run

Dry Run

Preventing 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 … 312 View
Earth for All
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Earth for All

A Survival Guide for Humanity

Five decades ago, The Limits to Growth shocked the world by showing that population and industrial growth were pushing humanity towards a cliff. Today the world recognizes that we are now at the … 218 View
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Economic Democracy and Cooperative Capital

Economic Democracy and Cooperative Capital

From: Resilience Imperative

There are two kinds of freedom: “positive freedom,” which is “freedom to” — freedom to build toward the realization of a “cooperative commonwealth,” and … ; 21 $2.10 Add
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Elements of a Theory of Community Economic Development

Elements of a Theory of Community Economic Development

From: Transforming or Reforming Capitalism

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Enclosure and the Commons

Enclosure and the Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

What happens when markets become so powerful that they disrupt natural ecosystems, reorder how people conduct their lives and claim ownership of life-forms? It is sometimes difficult to step … 17 $1.70 Add
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Enter the Co-op

Enter the Co-op

From: Grocery Story

In this chapter the author describes the history of co-ops from 1761 in Scotland to the revival of community-owned grocery stores in the 1980s. The structure and types of co-ops, their … 13 $1.30 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

Water and Sustainability

From: Dry Run

We know that water supply over the next few decades will be significantly affected not only by population growth, but by global warming. We know now that water and energy are inextricably … 42 $4.20 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

The Great Transition

From: Resilience Imperative

“There is no such thing as econom-ics, only social science applied to economic problems.” And once he did apply his scientific and social science lenses, which just happen to include … ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Epilogue

Epilogue

Where Do We Go from Here?

From: Grocery Story

The author asserts that capitalist economies do not serve the food needs of entire nations, and that the co-operative model is the means through which public spaces like the food supply can … 3 $0.30 Add
Escape from Overshoot

Escape from Overshoot

Economics for a Planet in Peril

Earth is in overshoot. The cumulative impact of 8 billion humans combined with the relentless pursuit of economic growth has stressed the planet beyond carrying capacity. This richly illustrated … 322 View