Sustainability

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Conclusion

From: Human Permaculture

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Becoming Artisans of Change – Next Steps in Human Permaculture ; 6 $0.60 Add
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Diversity in Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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For the farmer, biodiversity is both domestic and wild, and a farm can be a place where biodiversity flourishes or from which it is excluded. The way farmers relate to biodiversity distinguishes … 14 $1.40 Add
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Economy, Work, and the Environment in Canada

From: Consuming Sustainability

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Communication Is Key

From: Ecological Footprint

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Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

From: The Memory We Could Be

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The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … 37 $3.70 Add
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Looking at the Non-Human

Nature Movies and TV

From: The Culture of Nature

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This chapter provides a history of nature movies and television, from National Geographic to Disney to Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom andincludes nine photos and images. 42 $4.20 Add
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Loving the World

From: Intrinsic Hope

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When I think about what loving the world means to me, I feel a deep aspiration for the happiness, flourishing, and wellbeing of other people, other species, and the earth. This could be called … 20 $2.00 Add
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Oligarchy

From: Radical Transformation

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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 … 38 $3.80 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Five Axioms of Sustainability

From: Peak Everything

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My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … 14 $1.40 Add
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Optimum Power

Sustaining Our Power Over Time

From: Power

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This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … 51 $5.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Canadians and Americans consume more energy per capita than any other nation. Environmental impacts of our consumptive lifestyles include ozone layer depletion, acid rain, smog, potential climate … 16 $1.60 Add
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Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Remaking the Economy, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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In Chapter 6, Klein examines the practically of fundamentally retooling our entire economy by reexamining how it has been done before during the Second World War. Klein focuses much of this … 64 $6.40 Add
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Social Democracy and a Green New Deal

PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … 21 $2.10 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies – Social Diffusion

Social Diffusion: Speeding the Adoption of New Behaviors

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Both the mundane and important decisions of our lives are strongly affected by a process known as social diffusion or diffusion of innovations. In contrast with what nonpersonal sources of … 11 $0.11 Add