Climate Change
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From NEW! 9. A Call to ActionFrom: Earth for All |
Chapter 9 serves as a call to action reviewing the goals of the book and its themes. Topics include ending poverty, pushing for greater equality among people and nations, a healthy planet, … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
From Civil Society LeadershipFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 10, Klein shifts his focus from the political sphere to that of role of civil society primarily through social movements to bring change and mobilize the masses. Focusing on issues of … | Seth Klein | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
From Climate ChangeFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores the impacts of climate change on our global water supply, including who will be most affected and to what degree. | Marq de Villiers | 15 | 2018 | $1.50 Add |
From NEW! ConclusionWorlds at Stake From: Worlds at Stake |
The Conclusion offers the author Saad’s final thoughts on where we might find ourselves in the struggle against climate change and what role or roles we may play in the fight against it. | Aaron Saad | 6 | 2022 | $0.60 Add |
From NEW! Dangerous opportunities |
The author describes world leaders and thinkers who posit: never let a good crisis go to waste. He continues: conflict is an essential driver of human progress, so long as it is managed … | Arno Kopecky | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From Footprint in Architecture and City PlanningBedZED, Masdar City, and Peter Seidel From: Ecological Footprint |
Architectural examples that have been informed by this thinking | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
From Honey and RosesFrom: Lost Feast |
In this chapter Newman explores the history of honey and mead and how it has maintained a presence and connection to society for millennia’s. | Lenore Newman | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
From IndexFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
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From ParisBig Oil Gets Its Deal From: The Big Stall |
Analyzes the 2015 Paris Accord on climate change and reports on how the proceedings came to be dominated by corporate interests. Analyzes the impact of decades of well funded denialism. Suggests … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
From NEW! Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping ChangePART 2 |
This chapter summarizes the key innovations and practices that the farmers featured in the book have implemented to deal with climate change and describes the main attributes of a sustainable … | Laura Lengnick | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
From NEW! Scene 6The Kiss |
Scene 6 revisits David and Tara’s early years together. It discusses the ‘Outies’ and ‘Innies’, university, lectures, marriage, and a kiss. | David Suzuki; Miriam Fernandes; Ravi Jain; Tara Cullis | 10 | 2022 | $1.00 Add |
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … | Richard Heinberg | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
From The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate ViolenceFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From TransformationFrom: Changing Tides |
In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
From What Now? |
The final chapter suggests potential courses of action on both individual and governmental levels. | Steven Earle | 21 | 2021 | $2.10 Add |
From A Plausable Future: Approaching ApocalypseFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate change represents the extinction of predictability, a demolition of certainties. By the end of the 21st century, the environmental conditions on up to a third of the Earth’s surface … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |