Environmental Management

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Keystone

Keystone

From: Finding Our Niche

In Keystone, the third chapter of Finding Our Niche, Loring introduces the ecological concept of a keystone species, as well as what happens when keystone species are removed, called ecological … 28 $2.80 Add
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Learning with Communities of Color

Learning with Communities of Color

From: Coming Back to Life

We decided to offer workshops that would be only for young activists of color and that would train them to become facilitators of the Work That Reconnects in their own communities. At the date of … ; ; ; ; 24 $2.40 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
Making Shift Happen
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Making Shift Happen

Designing for Successful Environmental Behavior Change

The changemaker’s guide to catalyzing environmental behaviour change for a healthy future. To tackle our urgent environmental problems and achieve positive, durable change, we must design … 546 View
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Many Galaxies of Commons

Many Galaxies of Commons

From: Think Like a Commoner

Indigenous peoples were there first. They refined the art of commoning long before hackers began to share software code and social scientists developed complicated theories about the commons. And … 20 $2.00 Add
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Meditations for the Great Turning

Meditations for the Great Turning

From: Coming Back to Life

To heal our society, our psyches must heal as well. Haunted by the desperate needs of our time and beset by more commitments than we can easily carry, we may wonder how to find the time and … ; 19 $1.90 Add
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Navigating the Confluence

Navigating the Confluence

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

Topics include: Ecosystem Decline – Energy Transition – Population Growth – Economic Disparity – Climate Change – A Confluence of Possibilities – Taking Action 16 $1.60 Add
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Novel

Novel

From: Finding Our Niche

In Novel, the fifth chapter of Finding Our Niche, the author discusses novel ecosystems, such as La Cienega de Santa Clara, a wetland created from the damming of the Colorado River, which hosts … 27 $2.70 Add
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On Nature's Limits and the Human Condition

On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Five Axioms of Sustainability

From: Peak Everything

My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … 14 $1.40 Add
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On Nature's Limits and the Human Condition

On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Population, Resources, and Human Idealism

From: Peak Everything

No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … 12 $1.20 Add
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One Planet

One Planet

Ecological Limits and Then What?

From: Ecological Footprint

Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk?  Where are … ; 25 $2.50 Add
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Origins

Origins

From: The Memory We Could Be

To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is … 8 $0.80 Add
Overrun

Overrun

Dispatches from the Asian Carp Crisis

Intelligent investigative writing meets experiential journalism in this important look at one of North America’s most voraciously invasive species. Politicians, ecologists, and government … 387 View
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Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

Toward Sustainable Communties

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

This chapter examines sustainability at the community level. It begins with a look at communities in developed and developing parts of the world, proceeds to investigate some of the reasons why … 14 $1.40 Add
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Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

Making Community Policy

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

For communities to move effectively toward sustainability, citizens and their governments should understand the range of policy instruments available to them and the wider context of how … 12 $1.20 Add