Sustainable Development
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From  Technology and Localization: Trends at Play |
This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. | Bruce King | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Ten STeps to Preventing the Next Urban Water CrisisFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, I propose a 10-step program of measures that water activists can unite behind, from the immediately possible to long-term fixes that will depend on the water issues in a specific … | Jerry Yudelson | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From  The $100 Trillion QuestionFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
There are competing trends. Decay and chaos on one hand, integration and regeneration on the other. As $100 trillion changes hands in the next twenty years, the question is, which future wins? … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 17 | 2017 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The Design of Envrionmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate TechnologiesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Design of Environmentally Sustainable and Socially Appropriate Technologies suggests specific environmental and social design criteria for new technologies, the importance of the … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 21 | 2011 | $2.10 Add |
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From  The Economic System–How Does it Work?From: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the author discusses economic theory through various historical thinkers, with a focus on free markets. | Peter Victor A. | 30 | 2023 | $3.00 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherA Letter From the Future From: Peak Everything |
Greetings to you, people of the year 2007! You are living in the year of my birth; I am one hundred years old now, writing to you from the year 2107. I am using the last remnants of the advanced … | Richard Heinberg | 12 | 2010 | $1.20 Add |
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From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherTalking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything |
Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
The New Carbon ArchitectureBuiding to Cool the Climate |
"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when … | Bruce King | 186 | 2017 | View |
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From  The Power of Partnerships |
Working in tandem with companies, suppliers, designers, anyone down the supply chain, to educate and influence their behavior would be key to her success. It’s become key for many social … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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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 |
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From  The Shadow SideFrom: 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 | 41 | 2007 | $4.92 Add |
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From The Story MachineFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Invest in “companies that would be part of the solution, rather than part of the problem. Renewal Partners put capital into for-profit enterprises, but our larger goal was to model money … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” MythFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several … | David Bollier | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From The Uncritical Acceptance of New TechnologiesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Uncritical Acceptance of New Technologies discusses five topics related to the widespread belief in the inevitability of technological change: the myth of value-neutrality, the technological … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 20 | 2011 | $2.00 Add |
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From Through the Looking GlassFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
how can money be deployed in a spirit of service, rather than simply to make more money. Organizations with a systemic approach can effectively leverage relatively small amounts of capital into … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 28 | 2017 | $2.80 Add |
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From To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Daniel Maskell; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
