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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … 19 $1.90 Add
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Towards Strengthening the Movement

From: The Point is To Change the World

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This reading consists of the following essays: Gender, Race, and Class: A Perspective on the Contemporary Caribbean Struggle [2009] ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Part Two Co-operatives and the New Economy Choices, Incentives and Co-operative Organization

From: Co-operatives in a Post-Growth Era

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Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we … 22 $2.20 Add
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Plutocracy Awaits Us

From: Canada after Harper

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Linda McQuaig tells us how the inequality generated by “free market” policies has widened the gap between Canada’s ultra-rich and most other Canadians. 6 $0.60 Add
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Precarious Employment and Occupational Health and Safety in Ontario

From: Boom, Bust and Crisis

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Rebuilding the alternatives Southern-style

From: SOS

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Chapter 7 explores the ongoing projects to reinvent ’21st-century socialism’, discussing what is 21st-century socialism, the Global South, defending and expanding the commons, the … 24 $2.40 Add
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Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall?

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … 11 $1.10 Add
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Social Dividend as a Citizen Right

From: From the Great Transformation to the Great Financialization

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Stairs and Beaverbrook

From: Merchant Princes

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1902-1910 . Looks at the partnership between John F. Stairs and William Maxwell Aitken (the future Lord Beaverbrook). The establishment of the Royal Securities Corporation, John F’s … 49 $4.90 Add
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Taking Action

From: Intrinsic Hope

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If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … 17 $1.70 Add
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The Backlash Begins

From: Equal as Citizens

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1970s. October Crisis of 1970 challenges the social services being developed and an economic downturn occurs, leading to the rise of neo-conservativism, arguments against equalization 20 $2.00 Add
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The City Region

Section 3: Jacobs’ Spectrum of Economic Regions

From: Cities Matter

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Chapter 8 focuses on how urban growth impacts surrounding areas, discussing impact on rural areas, industrial diversity, the value of land to build factories, houses for workers and their … 4 $0.40 Add