Sustainability
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From  Technology, Exploitation and FairnessFrom: Techno-Fix |
Technology, Exploitation and Fairness advances the thesis that many technologies are regrettably used for control and exploitation of both humans and the environment, leading inevitably to … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 27 | 2011 | $2.70 Add |
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From  The Story that Got Us in TroubleFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the factors that have led society to the precipice of collapse: institutionalized greed, increased stratification of wealth and unregulated economic growth. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  The View from the RoadRecreation and Tourism From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores the intersections between recreation, tourism, and the environment. The chapter includes 11 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 36 | 2019 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Transforming AgricultureWomen Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy for Canada |
- | Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Carla Roppel | 21 | 2010 | $2.94 Add |
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From  Urban Water CrisesFrom: Dry Run |
Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Where Does Agroecological Food Come From |
This chapter begins by considering food produced by the industrial food system that has been called “food from nowhere". In contrast, agroecological food comes from … | Dana James | 38 | 2021 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Wood: Like Never Before |
This chapter explores the role of wood in building efficient and modern buildings. | Andrew Lawrence; Francis Yang | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From  You Are What You EatFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Ella Haley; Kierstin Hatt; Richard Tunstall | 31 | 2005 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Being PresentFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
The first habit of hope I’d like to discuss is being present. This means paying attention to whatever is going on and not getting sidetracked or distracted — in other words, living … | Kate Davies | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin |
Humans often need to see threats to the environment, and, by extension to their health and survival. Progressive losses over time can dilute urgency and awareness. So can progressive gains. One … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From  Blue Communities Give Hope in Europe |
This reading takes a country by country look at water activism in Europe. The beginnings of the Blue Community movement in Switzerland is discussed, followed by a discussion of the spread of … | Maude Barlow | 22 | 2019 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter ThreePrice and the Need for Speed |
In this chapter, Rand discusses carbon pricing as a way to limit emissions. He discusses the history of carbon pricing policies, and provides case studies of places where these policies have been … | Tom Rand | 33 | 2020 | $3.30 Add |
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From  Colonialism: The AccelerationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Colonialism was, and remains, a wholesale destruction of memory. Lands, the sources of identity, stolen. Languages, ripped from mouths. The collective loss to humanity was incalculable, as … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 36 | 2018 | $3.60 Add |
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From NEW! Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations |
In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to … | Dana James | 28 | 2021 | $2.80 Add |
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From  Fair WealthFrom: Fair Future |
- | Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 31 | 2005 | $3.10 Add |
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From Food Secure CanadaWhere Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect |
- | Cathleen Kneen | 17 | 2010 | $2.38 Add |
