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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() An Economy of Well-BeingCommon-sense tools for building genuine wealth and happiness |
In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it’s difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about … | Mark Anielski | 242 | 2018 | View |
![]() Damming the PeaceThe hidden costs of the Site C Dam |
Since the 1970s, the Site C Dam in northeastern British Columbia’s Peace River Valley has been touted by BC Hydro and successive governments as necessary to meet the province’s … | Wendy Holm | 272 | 2018 | View |
![]() The Memory We Could BeOvercoming Fear to Create Our Ecological Future |
Heal the great separation between humans and nature, and help create a future worth remembering. The Memory We Could Be moves beyond the sterile, technical language around climate change and … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 338 | 2018 | View |
![]() Thirty Years of FailureUnderstanding Canadian Climate Policy |
Thirty years ago, Canada was a climate leader, designing policy to curb rising emissions and demanding the same of other countries. But in the intervening decades, Canada has become more of a … | Robert MacNeil | 192 | 2019 | View |
From ![]() AcknowledgementsFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 1 | 2019 | $0.10 Add |
From ![]() ForewardFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Looking ahead, one thing is clear: the path we are on is coming to an end. Projections of the coming decades — whether they focus on food supplies, conflicts or weather patterns — … | Raoul Martinez | 2 | 2018 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionA New Economic Paradigm Based on Well-Being From: An Economy of Well-Being |
This book is meant to engender hope that a dark age ahead can be avoided and the current system of economic malaise transcended with a more compelling economic future based on the goal of … | Mark Anielski | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFraming the Shot From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. filmmaker and photographer Alex Harris shares how she came to document the controversial Site C Dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley. Wroking with a handful of … | Alex Harris | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
From ![]() Resilience: The 21st Century ImperativeFrom: Resilience Imperative |
Humans face profound challenges over the next century – climate change, peak oil, a growth-addicted global financial system, gross inequity. Simply tweaking the way we do things will not be … | Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty | 41 | 2012 | $4.10 Add |
From ![]() IntroductionFrom: Damming the Peace |
In the Introduction, author Wendy Holm describes the Site C dam project in B.C. and summarizes the impacts and effects of the project which are analyzed and critiqued in other chapters of the … | Wendy Holm | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
From ![]() Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable PlanetToward Sustainable Communties |
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 … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Thirty Years of Failure |
- | Robert MacNeil | 2 | 2019 | $0.20 Add |
From ![]() Reclaiming Economics for HappinessFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Reclaiming the Language of Economics * Happiness: Well-Being of Spirit * A New Index of Well-Being * Measuring Well-Being Objectively * Alberta’s Economic Growth, Disease and Income … | Mark Anielski | 30 | 2018 | $3.00 Add |
From ![]() Smashing Heads Doesn’t Open MindsLike Ships in the Night with Daniel Yankelovich |
Polarization is dangerous because it interrupts lines of communicationand leads to gridlock. It stops us from tackling urgent problems because without consensus we cannot take effective action. … | James Hoggan | 10 | 2016 | $1.00 Add |
From ![]() The Might of MemoryFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
The fight to tackle climate change is a fight to determine the fatality of the future. A fight over the vindication of life. It will require much of us: to unlearn our despair and learn our … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
From ![]() A Roadmap to Well-BeingFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Can Well-Being Be Measured? * The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do * Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being * The Util: Measuring Real … | Mark Anielski | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |