Sustainability
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From  Echoes Across the LakeFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter depicts Frid’s experiences at the hunting and spiritual camp of the Tsilhqot’in First Nations at Teztan Biny (Fish Lake). Through it, Frid further develops on the themes … | Alejandro Frid | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Energy and the Future of FarmingFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
We can and should energize our modern food production system with solar and other renewable energy sources, as has been done for most of the past 10,000 years. To be sure, the sun will always … | Gary S. Kleppel | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From  Environmental Health Issues Related to Industrial PollutionFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Ella Haley; Richard Tunstall | 24 | 2005 | $2.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Experiments on the Verge |
In this chapter, Boyd takes both a spiritual and philosophical approach to climate catastrophe. He explores various exercises, experiments, meditations, and philosophical provocations that can be … | Andrew Boyd | 30 | 2023 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Going PlacesEfficiency in Vehicles From: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which transportation could become more efficient. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 4 | 2018 | $0.40 Add |
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From  NEW! HouseholdingPart Six From: Earthkeeping |
Part Six contains the sections: This Old House: Honeymoon & After, Getting to Know You, Old House, Window Talk, Gone to a Better Place: A Wood Stove Memoir, Winter Woodchuck Woes, Fire from … | Gary Saunders | 45 | 2022 | $4.50 Add |
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From  Mobilizing LabourJust Transition, Then and Now From: A Good War |
In Chapter 7, Klein examines the role of labour in the fight for climate action. Klein argues that through examining the mobilization of the labor and work force during and after the Second World … | Seth Klein | 36 | 2020 | $3.60 Add |
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From  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksAtmospheric Change and Air Quality |
Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter … | Marc Roseland | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle F – Delegate and EmpowerFrom: Building Community |
Devolution and Empowerment – Research Corner – Case Study: Community-Led Sustainable Development in Northern Ghana – Case Study: Climate Change and the Minnehaha Creek … | James S. Gruber | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! Project Impact AssessmentsTriggering and Coverage |
This chapter focuses on two questions. First: how effectively are the purposes of the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) likely to be met given the triggering process and coverage of projects under the … | Stephen Hazell | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Seven: Saving a Prehistoric FishFrom: The Imperilled Ocean |
In readings from this book Journalist Lauren Trethewey explores stories about the many ways in which people around the world interact with the ocean. In this chapter Trethewey discusses the … | Laura Trethewey | 26 | 2020 | $2.60 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – ForgettingPrompts: Rembering to Act |
Numerous actions that promote sustainability are susceptible to the most human of traits: forgetting. Fortunately, “prompts” are effective in reminding people to engage in sustainable … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 12 | 2011 | $0.12 Add |
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From  Technological UtopiasWorld's Fairs and Theme Parks From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores World’s Fairs and theme parks, including Expo 67 (Montreal) and Expo 86 (Vancouver), to examine the process of technological development and its consequences on the … | Alexander Wilson | 38 | 2019 | $3.80 Add |
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From  The Death SystemFrom: 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 | 42 | 2017 | $4.20 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
