Sustainable Development
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From  NEW! Artificial Intelligence for Sustainable Business—Insights from the Health SectorFrom: The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
In this chapter, Seeman and Shakeri explore how artificial intelligence, particularly natural language processing, can enhance the sustainability of the health sector by embedding social and … | Neil Seeman; Zahra Shakeri | 14 | 2025 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Beyond Zero: The Time Value of Carbon |
This chapter highlights the role of buildings and building materials in meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. | Erin McDade | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  BlackwaterFrom: Dry Run |
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 |
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From Blue WaterFrom: Dry Run |
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 |
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From Brown WaterFrom: Dry Run |
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 CommunityTwelve Principles for a Healthy Future |
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 … | 354 | View | ||
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From NEW! Challenges of Our CommunitiesGrowing Local Leadership From: Building Community |
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 RevolutionReinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism |
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 |
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From  Community Engagement |
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 |
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From  Concluding thoughts |
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 |
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From Concrete: The Reinvention of Artificial Rock |
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 |
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From  Convivial Banking Innovations: Seeds for TransitionFrom: Resilience Imperative |
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 |
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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 |
