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From  Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It |
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 … | Barbara Rodriquez Droguett; Catherine De Wolf; Kathrina Simonen | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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From  Current Trends to an Uncertain FutureFrom: 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. | Peter Victor A. | 50 | 2023 | $5.00 Add |
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From  Debt and SinFrom: 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 | 42 | 2007 | $5.04 Add |
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From Debt as PlotFrom: 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 |
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From  NEW! Deep Democracy in KeralaFrom: 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. | John Restakis | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Developing Strategies – Revisited |
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 … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add |
 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 |
 NEW! Earth for AllA 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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From  Economic Democracy and Cooperative CapitalFrom: 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 … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 21 | 2012 | $2.10 Add |
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From  Elements of a Theory of Community Economic Development |
John Loxley | 27 | 2007 | $2.70 Add | |
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From  Enclosure and the CommonsFrom: 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 … | David Bollier | 17 | 2014 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Enter the Co-opFrom: 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 … | John Steinman | 13 | 2019 | $1.30 Add |
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From EpilogueWater 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 … | Jerry Yudelson | 42 | 2010 | $4.20 Add |
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From EpilogueThe 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 … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From EpilogueWhere 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 … | John Steinman | 3 | 2019 | $0.30 Add |
Escape from OvershootEconomics 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 |
