Environmental Studies
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From  Technology and Localization: Trends at Play |
This chapter explores some of the technological trends that are accelerating green building. | Bruce King | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From  NEW! The Climate MovementPART 4: To Shape a Coming World From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 10 focuses on the current state of the climate movement, providing a survey of its most prominent leaders, their tactics, and action they are bringing about. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  The Community Asset Well-Being FundFrom: An Economy of Well-Being |
* Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation | Mark Anielski | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The Emergent MarketFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Consumers must recognize their responsibility to reward craftsmanship and hard work with patronage, and be willing to pay a fair price for their food. Consumers are actively seeking out … | Gary S. Kleppel | 10 | 2014 | $1.00 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherThe Psychology of Peak Oil and Climate Change From: Peak Everything |
The historic global shift from a regime of cheap fossil fuel energy sources to one of declining and expensive fossil fuels and scarce replacements will impact every living person, every … | Richard Heinberg | 15 | 2010 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Mechanic and the ArchitectFrom: The Big Stall |
Describes how neo-liberals came to embrace carbon taxes as well as the neo-liberal approach to carbon taxation. Presents progresive economists’ critique of the BC carbon tax which aruges … | Donald Gutstein | 22 | 2018 | $2.20 Add |
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From  The Narrowing of MindsFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
How do you measure creativity if you never find it in the first place? I have noticed over the past five to eight years is that youth are progressively less aware of their creative potential. … | Mari K Swingle | 26 | 2019 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The Petroleum Game: New RealitiesFrom: Oil and World Politics |
Discusses the patterns of Western military and economic interventions during the twenty-first century, and petroleum’s largely hidden role in world politics. US pressures have influenced … | John Foster | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
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From  The Poverty of Weath: Economics and EcologyFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Principle of BeautyFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
In this chapter, the author provides a critique of the Darwinian notion of "nature as a survival machine." | Andreas Weber | 32 | 2016 | $3.20 Add |
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From  The Scrambled ParadiseFrom: Lost Feast |
In this chapter Newman describes her time travelling through Hawaii and the biodiversity she witnessed there. Newman describes how after centuries of plant and animal invasions, both purposefully … | Lenore Newman | 24 | 2019 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Tipping Points |
This chapter explores various climate tipping points that loom in our near future. Topics include the increasing rate of forest fires, the melting of Arctic sea ice, melting permafrost, changing … | Steven Earle | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Towards a Sustainable FutureFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Debra Davidson; Kierstin Hatt | 17 | 2005 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! What Difference Does It Make? |
This chapter describes the efforts of cyclists in Amsterdam to resist the encroachment of cars and keep that city bike-centric. He uses their efforts as a model for how change has to take place … | Sami Grover | 19 | 2021 | $1.90 Add |
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From  “Super, Natural”The Potential for Food Sovereignty in British Columbia |
- | Hannah Wittman; Herb Barbolet | 22 | 2010 | $3.08 Add |
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From  NEW! 9. A Call to ActionFrom: Earth for All |
Chapter 9 serves as a call to action reviewing the goals of the book and its themes. Topics include ending poverty, pushing for greater equality among people and nations, a healthy planet, … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 9 | 2022 | $0.90 Add |
