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Federating the Change Agents: Securing the Gains

Federating the Change Agents: Securing the Gains

From: 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 … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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Food Co-ops and the Local Economy

Food Co-ops and the Local Economy

From: 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" … 18 $1.80 Add
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Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food

Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food

From: 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 … 17 $1.70 Add
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Foreward, Prefaces and Introduction

Foreward, Prefaces and Introduction

From: 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 … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Foreword by Christiana Figueres
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Foreword by Christiana Figueres

From: 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, … ; ; ; ; ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Foreword by Elizabeth Wathuti
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Foreword by Elizabeth Wathuti

From: Earth for All

The second Foreword is from Elizabeth Wathuti, climate activist and founder of the Green Generation Initiative. ; ; ; ; ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Forward

Forward

From: 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 … 3 $0.30 Add
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Forward and Preface

Forward and Preface

From: 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 … 7 $0.70 Add
Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

An 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 … 184 View
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Fostering Sustainable Behavior

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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 … 13 $0.13 Add
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From Crisis to Opportunity

From Crisis to Opportunity

From: In The Business of Change

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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From: 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 … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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Graywater

Graywater

From: 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, … 11 $1.10 Add
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Green Growth--A Dangerous Distraction?

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. 28 $2.80 Add
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Green Water

Green Water

From: 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 … 12 $1.20 Add
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Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

The 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 … 25 $2.50 Add