Sustainability

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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Energy Efficiency and Renewables From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	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 …	Marc Roseland	16	2012	$1.60 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Atmospheric Change and Air Quality From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	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
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Transportation Planning and Traffic Management From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to …	Marc Roseland	19	2012	$1.90 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Land Use and Urban Form From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can …	Marc Roseland	21	2012	$2.10 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Housing and Community Development From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, …	Marc Roseland	14	2012	$1.40 Add
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks Community Economic Development From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on …	Marc Roseland	20	2012	$2.00 Add
From NEW! Part 3 Caring For the Earth From: Human Permaculture View New Society Publishers	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
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Governing Sustainable Communities From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role …	Marc Roseland	17	2012	$1.70 Add
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Tools for Community Sustainability From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some …	Marc Roseland	12	2012	$1.20 Add
From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments Lessons and Challenges From: Toward Sustainable Communities View New Society Publishers	There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line …	Marc Roseland	6	2012	$0.60 Add
From NEW! Part 4 Caring For People From: Human Permaculture View New Society Publishers	Permacultivating Our Food – Water, a Vital Element – Food from Plants – Food from Animals – Food from the Ocean – Food from Insects – A Design to Feed Your Family	Bernard Alonso; Cecile Guiochon	81	2020	$8.10 Add
From Part III Power and Protest From: Ring of Fire View ECW Press	In Part III the author describes political, legal, and logistical tensions surrounding mining activities in the Ring of Fire. This section includes: Chap. 9: A Tale of Two Provinces – Chap. …	Virginia Haffernan	56	2023	$5.60 Add
From Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now From: A Good War View ECW Press	In Chapter 8, Klein tackles the question of who will pay for it. In the chapter he explores how the financial backing was generated during the mobilized for the the Second World War and how we …	Seth Klein	22	2020	$2.20 Add
Peak Everything Waking Up to the Century of Declines New Society Publishers	A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of …	Richard Heinberg	240	2010	View
From Perfect Be Damned From: The Great Greenwashing View House of Anansi Press	From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You	John Pabon	5	2024	$0.50 Add
From Perserving for the Long Haul From: Intrinsic Hope View New Society Publishers	Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. …	Kate Davies	15	2018	$1.50 Add