Climate Change

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9. A Call to Action

From: Earth for All

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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, … ; ; ; ; ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Civil Society Leadership

From: A Good War

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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 … 16 $1.60 Add
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Climate Change

From: Back to the Well

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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. 15 $1.50 Add
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Conclusion

Worlds at Stake

From: Worlds at Stake

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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. 6 $0.60 Add
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Dangerous opportunities

From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma

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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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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Footprint in Architecture and City Planning

BedZED, Masdar City, and Peter Seidel

From: Ecological Footprint

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Architectural examples that have been informed by this thinking ; 12 $1.20 Add
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Honey and Roses

From: Lost Feast

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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. 15 $1.50 Add
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Index

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Paris

Big Oil Gets Its Deal

From: The Big Stall

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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 … 22 $2.20 Add
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Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change

PART 2

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

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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 … 24 $2.40 Add
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Scene 6

The Kiss

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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Scene 6 revisits David and Tara’s early years together. It discusses the ‘Outies’ and ‘Innies’, university, lectures, marriage, and a kiss. ; ; ; 10 $1.00 Add
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The End of One Era, The Beginning of Another

Bridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism

From: Peak Everything

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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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate Violence

From: The Memory We Could Be

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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 … 21 $2.10 Add
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Transformation

From: Changing Tides

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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 … 10 $1.00 Add
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What Now?

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

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The final chapter suggests potential courses of action on both individual and governmental levels. 21 $2.10 Add
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A Plausable Future: Approaching Apocalypse

From: The Memory We Could Be

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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 … 24 $2.40 Add