Environmental Management

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Beautiful Protest

From: Changing Tides

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 This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Catalysts for Change

From: Thriving Beyond Sustainability

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 Topics include: Greening Campuses – The Food Revolution – The Green Economy – Mainstreaming Green – Open Source – Initiatives, Confluence, Scope and Approach – … 26 $2.60 Add
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Gates Gully

From: Toronto's Ravines and Urban Forests

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 Naturalist Jason Ramsay-Brown uses Gates Gully (Belamy Ravine), which cleaves through the Scarborough Bluffs, to illustrate how local history, natural heritage, art, and culture intersect … 8 $0.80 Add
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End Overshoot!

Communication Is Key

From: Ecological Footprint

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 Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

From: The Memory We Could Be

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 The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … 37 $3.70 Add
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Ideas & Culture

From: Thirty Years of Failure

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Methods

From: Making Shift Happen

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 This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do … ; ; ; 41 $4.10 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Five Axioms of Sustainability

From: Peak Everything

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 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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Rape of the Commons

The Impact of Site C on Farmland and Food Security

From: Damming the Peace

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 Wendy Holm, the author of an agricultural impact assessment of the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, on what makes these foodlands so unique, and why they are of … 24 $2.40 Add
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Sentinel

From: Finding Our Niche

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 The sixth chapter of Finding Our Niche, Sentinel, welcomes in stories of people and communities who have invested in improving and restoring their connection to land and natural communities. … 24 $2.40 Add
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Sustainability or Collapse?

From: Techno-Fix

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 Sustainability or Collapse? argues that there are at least three critical technological challenges that must be met in order to produce long-term sustainability: avoiding serious environmental … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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The Basic Miracle: Our True Nature and Power

From: Coming Back to Life

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 Perhaps we made our biggest error in thinking of the world as made of “stuff ” to begin with. Fortunately — and paradoxically — our very search for mastery and knowledge … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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The Well-Being Workplace

From: An Economy of Well-Being

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 * Well-Being at Work * Businesses That Operate on Well-Being Principles * The Well-Being Corporation * Doing Well By Doing Good: The Flourishing Well-Being Enterprise * Well-Being: The Best … 16 $1.60 Add
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Trouble with Fishing

From: Overrun

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 In this chapter, the author travels to Illinois to meet with commercial fishermen who fish the rivers and lakes of the Midwest. Topics discussed include the methods that fishers use to attempt to … 28 $2.80 Add
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"Eat ’em to Beat ’em"

From: Overrun

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 This chapter explores the possibility of controlling invasive species by using them as a food source. Topics include the process of food production and the communication and marketing efforts … 26 $2.60 Add