Sustainable Development
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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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 |
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 |
From Introduction |
Social entrepreneurs, innovative men and women who focus their creative energy and business-minded skillset and savvy toward social change. Finding new and empowering ways to tackle social … | Elisa Birnbaum | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
From NEW! IntroductionFrom: Building Community |
- | James S. Gruber | 9 | 2020 | $0.90 Add |
From Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable PlanetThe Context for Sustainable Communities |
This chapter explores the context for sustainable communities. Acting locally is more significant when we think globally, so that is where we begin our discussion of "sustainable … | Marc Roseland | 15 | 2012 | $1.50 Add |
From A Short History of WaterFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter you’ll learn a little of the fascinating history of water and civilization and how politics, economics and water have been part of the history of the US, especially of the … | Jerry Yudelson | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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 |
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 | 15 | 2017 | $1.50 Add |
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 |
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 |
From Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable PlanetToward Sustainable Communties |
This chapter examines sustainability at the community level. It begins with a look at communities in developed and developing parts of the world, proceeds to investigate some of the reasons why … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
From PrefaceFrom: Peak Everything |
In titling this book Peak Everything, I was suggesting that humanity has achieved an unsustainable pinnacle of population size and consumption rates, and that the road ahead will be mostly … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
From Step 1: Selecting Behaviors |
Whether you are developing a program to promote water efficiency, waste reduction, watershed protection, energy efficiency, modal transportation shifts, or virtually any other area related to … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 11 | 2011 | $0.11 Add |
From The Rediscovery of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It … | David Bollier | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
From NEW! 1. Earth for AllFive Extraordinary Turnarounds for Global Equity on a Healthy Planet From: Earth for All |
Chapter 1 begins the book by examining the present challenges of the 21st century, and how this turbulence presents a unique moment in time where humanity can work together to create a better … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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 |