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Peer Governance Through Commoning

Peer Governance Through Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … 44 $4.40 Add
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Perchance to Scale

Perchance to Scale

From: In The Business of Change

Though many social entrepreneurs are proponents of scale, the goal is a more difficult one for them to achieve than for traditional enterprises. For one thing, balancing the objectives of profit … 16 $1.60 Add
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Perfect Be Damned

Perfect Be Damned

From: The Great Greenwashing

From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You 5 $0.50 Add
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Perserving for the Long Haul

Perserving for the Long Haul

From: Intrinsic Hope

Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. … 15 $1.50 Add
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Personal Well-Being

Personal Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80 Add
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Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

Peter Lougheed and the rise of the oil sands

From: Oil’s Deep State

Former Alberta opposition leader Kevin Taft examines Peter Lougheed’s government in Alberta and the rise of the oil sands paying particular attention to Lougheed’s stance against … 11 $1.10 Add
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Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Petro-Capitalism and the Tar Sands

Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 1 Angela Carter uses petro-capitalism as a lens to capture the scale and complexity of the tar sands industry, focusing on our economic, political, and environmental costs of fossil … 13 $1.30 Add
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Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Petro-Chemical Legacies and Tar Sands Frontiers: Chemical Valley versus Environmental Justice

Part II: Communities and Resistance

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

In Chapter 13 Toban Black critically examines the conference titled “Bitumen—Adding Value: Canada’s National Opportunity” in May of 2013, discussing potential tar sands … 12 $1.20 Add
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Petroleum and Geopolitics

Petroleum and Geopolitics

From: Oil and World Politics

Discusses petroleum, the most valuable commodity in world trade, and its ties to politics and power. Introduces the links between governments and oil corporations, the history of petrodollars in … 30 $3.00 Add
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Pharmaceutical Companies
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Pharmaceutical Companies

Relationship Between the Canadian Government and Big Pharma — “Clientele Pluralism”

From: Corporate Rules

In this chapter, Joel Lexchin examines the pharmaceutical industry and “clientele pluralism. “ Lexchin argues that the pharmaceutical industry can drive regulation by influencing not … 20 $2.00 Add
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Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle Island

Pipelines and Resistance across Turtle Island

Part III: Future Prospects

From: A Line in the Tar Sands

Chapter 23 examines resistance to pipelines across Turtle island (Canada), discussing Indigenous resistance and the anti-pipeline movement, decolonization, the resurgence of Indigenous … 14 $1.40 Add
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Pissing People Off Works

Pissing People Off Works

From: Spin

From Spin: Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age 35 $3.50 Add
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Plan for Failure

Plan for Failure

From: Spin

From Spin: Politics and Marketing in a Divided Age 35 $3.50 Add
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Planning an Escape from Overshoot

Planning an Escape from Overshoot

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author details practical ways to escape from overshoot. 22 $2.20 Add
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Planning Your New Venture
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Planning Your New Venture

From: The Farmer's Office

This chapter covers how to begin planning your farming venture. 5 $0.50 Add
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Plastic: So Great, So Awful - Some New Directions

Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions

From: The New Carbon Architecture

In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … ; ; 16 $1.60 Add