Environmental Studies
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From  The New NormalFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit AnalysesFrom: Techno-Fix |
The Positive Biases of Technology Assessments and Cost-Benefit Analyses demonstrates how each step in the standard cost-benefit analysis procedure has intrinsic problems and ambiguities, some of … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 38 | 2011 | $3.80 Add |
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From  NEW! The Rules of ResiliencePART 2 |
This chapter explores rules of resilience, which are: to Cultivate diverse networks of reciprocal relationship, to Cultivate regional self-reliance, and to Cultivate the accumulation of … | Laura Lengnick | 15 | 2022 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Story of AlphaFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
In this chapter, I will discuss my discovery of the signature for modern excess: a form of brain deregulation purely associated with excessive use of i-media. | Mari K Swingle | 16 | 2019 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Tourism, Climate Change and the Missing WorkerUneven Impacts, Instiutions and Response From: Climate@Work |
- | Steven Tufts | 20 | 2013 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Towards a System of LifeFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 2 of this title entitled "Radical Transformation" outline the dramatic changes necessary to reform our civilization into one that is sustainable, and quitable. | Kevin MacKay | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
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From  Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and HowFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Using Law and Democracy to Resist Predatory MiningFrom: Testimonio |
Essays in this section: Reclaiming Democracy, Realizing Self-Determination: Consultas as a Tool to Defend Human Rights and the Environment in Guatemala’s Genocidal Shadow – … | Cory Wanless; J.P. Laplante | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Welcome to the Anthropocene |
In this chapter, Rand summarizes the challenges facing humanity if it wants to survive the 21st century. He concludes with a letter to his son, giving a vision of a future where climate change is … | Tom Rand | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Well-Being Impact InvestingFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Virtuous Financial Leadership * Lintel Capital LLC: Investment for Good * Well-Being Impact Investment Funds * And the Times, They are a-Changin’ | Mark Anielski | 9 | 2018 | $0.90 Add |
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From  Working with Invasive Plant SpeciesFrom: Common Threads |
Embracing invasive plants as a material resource for hand-based technologies makes so much sense; we bring land stewardship practices to the heart of our making. It is not about choosing a plant … | Sharon Kallis | 22 | 2014 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! 8. From “Winner Take All” Capitalism to Earth4All EconomiesFrom: Earth for All |
Chapter 8 examines what the transition to the Earth4All model would look like, discussing topics including the increase in government intervention (subsidies, incentives, and regulations) to … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 20 | 2022 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! A brief history of population control |
This chapter begins with the discussion that our insatiable “Western” appetites for consumption are more urgent problems than overpopulation. The chapter ends reporting that 2020 … | Arno Kopecky | 10 | 2021 | $1.00 Add |
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From  A Poisoned Heroin Supply: The 2010s and 2020sFrom: Heroin |
This chapter examines the opioid crisis, the poisoned illegal drug supply, and the increase in illegal drug overdose deaths in Canada during the 2010s and 2020s. | Susan C. Boyd | 26 | 2022 | $2.60 Add |
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From  NEW! AppendicesFrom: Saved by Science |
- | Dr. Mark J. Poznansky | 17 | 2020 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Appendix 1Environmental Organizations Led by People of Color From: Engage, Connect, Protect |
A directory of environmental organizations led by people of color in the United States, with descriptions of the focus and activities of each organization. | Angelou Ezeilo | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
