Climate Change

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It's Time to Save the Prairie

It’s Time to Save the Prairie

Against a Bleak Climate Future, Our Grasslands Offer Hope

From: Divided

This essay is meant to start a conversation about the link between grasslands conservation and the climate’s future, and gaining a deeper understanding of the natural prairie’s … 13 $1.30 Add
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Key Terms and Appendix
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Key Terms and Appendix

From: Runaway Climate

This section contains key terms and the appendix. 12 $1.20 Add
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Learning Into the Future

Learning Into the Future

Power and Love with Adam Kahane

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Adam Kahane’s work has shown him it is increasingly vital for people to work together, not just with friends and colleagues, but also with strangers and opponents, even enemies, in order to … 12 $1.20 Add
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Learning Into the Future

Learning Into the Future

No Fish? No Fish Sticks with Peter Senge

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Society is faced with a two-fold problem: Not only do scientists have difficulty communicating intuitively and effectively, but also the environmental community is “addicted to a fear-based … 13 $1.30 Add
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Learning Into the Future

Learning Into the Future

Listen Deeply with Otto Scharmer and Anne Giardini

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

When Scharmer joined the MIT Learning Center founded by Peter Senge, he focused on what they call learning from the emerging future as opposed to the past, “and only then did I start to tap … 12 $1.20 Add
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Lessons from Our Ancestors

Lessons from Our Ancestors

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

Topics include: Cultural Indicators – Tibetan Nomads – Balinese Water Temples – Inuit Traditional Knowledge – The Kogi: Guardians of the Planet – The Value of … 18 $1.80 Add
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Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future
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Let’s get drunk and celebrate the future

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

This chapter is a call to change the world to a sustainable one through celebration. A world that uses our creative energy and intelligence and ambition and puts it wherever we want, other than … 7 $0.70 Add
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Livestock

Livestock

From: Resilient Agriculture

This chapter features case studies of livestock ranchers in different climates and highlights the effects they are feeling from climate change and the innovations they are using to adapt and … 40 $4.00 Add
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Livestock
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Livestock

PART 4

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter features case studies of livestock ranchers in different climates and highlights the effects they are feeling from climate change and the innovations they are using to adapt and … 27 $2.70 Add
Lost Feast

Lost Feast

Culinary Extinction and the Future of Food

When we humans love foods, we love them a lot. In fact, we have often eaten them into extinction, whether it is the megafauna of the Paleolithic world or the passenger pigeon of the last century. … 308 View
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Making Common Cause

Making Common Cause

Inequality, Then and Now

From: A Good War

In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … 18 $1.80 Add
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Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

Malcolm Gladwell in Conversation with Rudyard Griffiths

April 9, 2020

From: The World After Covid

Malcolm Gladwell and Rudyard Griffiths discuss Covid-19 and America’s response to it. Topics include social inequality, health care, ethics, human social behaviours, climate change, and … 11 $1.10 Add
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Managing Climate Risk: Adaptation Stories
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Managing Climate Risk: Adaptation Stories

PART 1

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This book shares the adaptation stories of more than 40 sustainable farmers and ranchers growing food across the U.S.. Sections include: Farmers and Ranchers in the Northwest and Southwest … 17 $1.70 Add
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Mass Movements: Our Only Hope
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Mass Movements: Our Only Hope

From: Future on Fire

Chapter 3 examines how mass movements, the actions of millions of everyday people have played a role in changing our society for the better and can become the method to bring real change and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Mickey Mouse is All Right
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Mickey Mouse is All Right

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

This chapter begins by asking how much oil is in the ground, how much carbon can the sky absorb, and how fast will we go before we finally slow down? Through the story of a family trip to … 11 $1.10 Add
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Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

Minimizing Farming’s Water Needs

From: Back to the Well

In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow. 16 $1.60 Add