Sustainability
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From  NEW! How To Be White at the End of the World |
In this chapter, Boyd explores how class, social power, and race contribute to how a person is impacted by the climate crisis. Boyd discusses the concept of "an equitable distribution of … | Andrew Boyd | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Making Common CauseInequality, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 4, Klein argues that through mobilization Canada could be able to confront and bring change to the present-day inequality many people face. Just as the Wartime Efforts during the … | Seth Klein | 18 | 2020 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Messaging That Encourages Action |
In Chapter 3 Kaufman focuses how we talk about action in content to combating the climate crisis and explores how messaging effects the actions and willingness for others to join the fight. The … | Cynthia Kaufman | 11 | 2021 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Nature Education and PromotionFrom: The Culture of Nature |
The chapter examines the growing desire to educate the public, in particular school-aged children, about the preservation and conservation of nature and the environment. The chapter includes 15 … | Alexander Wilson | 40 | 2019 | $4.00 Add |
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From  On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly … | Richard Heinberg | 20 | 2010 | $2.00 Add |
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From  One PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk? Where are … | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 25 | 2019 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksWater and Sewage |
North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to … | Marc Roseland | 14 | 2012 | $1.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Part 3Caring For the Earth From: Human Permaculture |
Biodiversity, the Key to Balance – Water Is Life – Soil, Too, Is Life – Forest: Bridge between Land and Sky | Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon | 44 | 2020 | $4.40 Add |
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From  Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle C – Protect Resources and Promote FairnessFrom: Building Community |
Community-Based Natural Resource Management – Research Corner – Natural Capital and Livelihoods – Case Study: Building a New Future for All Residents, Ixtlán de … | James S. Gruber | 35 | 2020 | $3.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Right-Wing Ideology and Climate Change DenialismPART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 5 critically examines the right wing phenomenon of climate change denialism. | Aaron Saad | 22 | 2022 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Saving Ecosystems |
Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … | Andrés R. Edwards | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Space, the Canadian Frontier?Landscape, Identity, and Power From: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Jeff Masuda; Jeji Varghese | 27 | 2005 | $2.70 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – Self-Perception TheoryCommitment: From Good Intentions to Action |
Self-Perception Theory intriguingly suggests that if we can provide opportunities for people to engage in sustainable behaviors conveniently, the very act of engaging in those behaviors will … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 18 | 2011 | $0.18 Add |
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From  StratificationFrom: Radical Transformation |
Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems … | Kevin MacKay | 10 | 2017 | $1.00 Add |
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From  Straw and Other Fibers: A Second Harvest |
This chapter examines the use of "little trees," i.e., the stalks of straw that support seed crops. | Chris Magwood; Massey Burke | 12 | 2017 | $1.20 Add |
