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From ![]() Federating the Change Agents: Securing the GainsFrom: Resilience Imperative |
We must secure the innovations that are getting results by scaling up and broadening their applications. Many of the cases we have set out show how particular innovations have been scaled up and … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add |
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From ![]() Food Co-ops and the Local EconomyFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter describes the benefits of food co-ops to the local economy via the retention of profits, local supply chains, and the value of using the language of "economic development" … | John Steinman | 18 | 2019 | $1.80 Add |
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From ![]() Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our FoodFrom: Grocery Story |
This chapter describes food prices and the effect on the people who grow our food. How is the price of food determined and how does it impact every other link in the food chain? How does market … | John Steinman | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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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 |
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From ![]() NEW! Foreword by Christiana FigueresFrom: Earth for All |
The first foreword is from Christiana Figueres, the former Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC), one of the architects of the Paris Agreement, … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Foreword by Elizabeth WathutiFrom: Earth for All |
The second Foreword is from Elizabeth Wathuti, climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative. | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 2 | 2022 | $0.20 Add |
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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 |
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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 |
![]() 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 |
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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 |
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From ![]() From Crisis to Opportunity |
What often emerges out of these crisis situations — and their driven response — is opportunity unparalleled. After all, what greater inspiration for social, environmental and business … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() From Cultural Captivity to Focused IntentionFrom: Resilience Imperative |
We are so interconnected that if Western shoppers stopped going to Walmart to get more on the cheap, the Chinese economy might falter, putting at risk the financing of American debt and throwing … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 33 | 2012 | $3.30 Add |
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From ![]() GraywaterFrom: Dry Run |
Unlike rainwater, which is highly variable both year to year and seasonally, graywater tends to be reliably present in most commercial environments, so why use potable water for flushing toilets, … | Jerry Yudelson | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() Green Growth–A Dangerous Distraction?From: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the author examines the concept of "sustainable growth" and whether it is a viable solution to overshoot. | Peter Victor A. | 28 | 2023 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Green WaterFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, you’ll learn about opportunities for conserving the use of potable water in landscape, ways to integrate stormwater management with landscaping and systems for reusing … | Jerry Yudelson | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() Grocery StoresThe Food System’s Control Center From: Grocery Story |
The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and … | John Steinman | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |












