Sustainable Development

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Blackwater From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	However, wastewater is also another water source; after all if you live inland along a large river, your water supply started upriver as someone else’s wastewater. So, wastewater is just …	Jerry Yudelson	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From Blue Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	With all the concern the past decade about reducing water consumption in both residential and non-residential uses, you’ll probably not find it surprising that the water field has begun to …	Jerry Yudelson	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From Brown Water From: Dry Run View New Society Publishers	One of my favorite green building technologies is rainwater harvesting: the capture, treatment and use of rainwater for uses inside the building, such as toilet flushing and cooling-tower makeup …	Jerry Yudelson	26	2010	$2.60 Add
NEW! Building Community Twelve Principles for a Healthy Future New Society Publishers	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
From NEW! Challenges of Our Communities Growing Local Leadership From: Building Community View New Society Publishers	Local Communities: The Foundation of Society – Challenges That Local Communities Are Facing – Community Capital: What It Is and Why It Matters – The Guiding Principles: How They …	James S. Gruber	11	2020	$1.10 Add
Clean Money Revolution Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism New Society Publishers	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
From Community Engagement From: In The Business of Change View New Society Publishers	A lesson they’ve learned is the importance of creating opportunities for empowerment and sustenance for the people they’re trying to help. Giving away free items without being mindful …	Elisa Birnbaum	16	2018	$1.60 Add
From Concluding thoughts From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior View New Society Publishers	Implementing a community-based social marketing strategy requires careful preliminary research, strategy development, piloting, implementation and evaluation. However, this attention to detail is …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	7	2011	$0.70 Add
From Concrete: The Reinvention of Artificial Rock From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the authors turn to concrete, and suggest that the natural resources used to make it – lime, sand, and gravel – are in short supply. Moreover, the production of …	Fernando Martirena; Paul Jaquin	16	2017	$1.60 Add
From Convivial Banking Innovations: Seeds for Transition From: Resilience Imperative View New Society Publishers	Before the rapid globalization spurred by deregulation, community residents and local businesses in the commercial strips of towns and cities had a long-term relationship with the local …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	30	2012	$3.00 Add
From Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	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
From Current Trends to an Uncertain Future From: Escape from Overshoot View New Society Publishers	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
From Debt and Sin From: Payback View House of Anansi Press	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
From Debt as Plot From: Payback View House of Anansi Press	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 NEW! Deep Democracy in Kerala From: Civilizing the State View New Society Publishers	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
From Developing Strategies – Revisited From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior View New Society Publishers	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