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From NEW! Make it EASY From: Making Shift Happen View New Society Publishers	This chapter focuses on how Easy it is to reduce the intention-action gap. The chapter discuss tips for making the desired behaviours as simple, seamless, and convenient as possible. We’ll also …	Ashleigh Kellerman; Lauren Highleyman; Nya Van Leuvan; Rod Fujita	23	2022	$2.30 Add
From Melody of the Soul From: The Biology of Wonder New Society Publishers	In this chapter, Weber explores natural beauty through birdsong and music	Andreas Weber	25	2016	$2.50 Add
From Migrant Justice and the Tar Sands Industry Part I: Tar Sands Expansionism From: A Line in the Tar Sands View Between The Lines	Chapter 7 is an interview with Harsha Walia by John Kahn Russell.	Harsha Walia; Joshua Kahn Russell	7	2014	$0.70 Add
From Moving Forward From: Getting to Zero View James Lorimer and Company	Identifies how grassroots movements and organizations can move forward to develop sector profiles, targets, and plans of action to create sustained climate action.	Tony Clarke	43	2018	$4.30 Add
From Moving Money From Harm to Healing From: A Finer Future View New Society Publishers	This chapter explores ways in which the global economy can move to support the planet instead of a small minority of shareholders.	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	20	2018	$2.00 Add
From My Heart Never Gave Up From: About Face View Breakwater Books	On Alcohol. The essays in the first section of the book discuss substance abuse. These readings include personal accounts of struggles with addiction in all its forms. The authors in these …	Rebecca Dawe	4	2019	$0.40 Add
From New Times, New Tools Managing For Resilience From: Resilient Agriculture View Collection: The Future of Food: How Small Farms are Responding to Climate Change and Corporate Agriculture New Society Publishers	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	42	2015	$4.20 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Population, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything View New Society Publishers	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 …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Transportation Planning and Traffic Management From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to …	Marc Roseland	19	2012	$1.90 Add
From Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we …	Seth Klein	22	2020	$2.20 Add
From NEW! Portents and prophecies From: The Environmentalist’s Dilemma View ECW Press	In a central paradox, the one we’re running out of time to resolve, the consequences of burning fossil fuels are poised to demolish two centuries of benefit. So how do we make the fight …	Arno Kopecky	13	2021	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Principle G – Earn Trust From: Building Community View New Society Publishers	Building Trust is Integral to All Community Work – Research Corner – Essentials for Building Trust in a Community – Case Study: Randolph Community Forest, New Hampshire, USA …	James S. Gruber	24	2020	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment View Irwin Law Inc.	This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact …	Arlene Kwasniak; Patricia Fitzpatrick	29	2021	$2.90 Add
From Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall? From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than …	Ann Edminster	11	2017	$1.10 Add
From Step 3: Developing Strategies – Communication Communication: Creating Effective Messages From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior View New Society Publishers	Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	21	2011	$0.42 Add
From Struggling for Heroin-assisted Treatment: The 2000s From: Heroin View Fernwood Publishing	This chapter discusses Canada’s first federally sanctioned supervised injection site that opened in Vancouver in 2003. The efficacy of heroin assisted treatment programs in other countries …	Susan C. Boyd	17	2022	$1.70 Add