Sustainability
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From  To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  What is the Work that Reconnects?From: Coming Back to Life |
As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
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From  What We Don’t Know About FrackingFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores the risks and unknowns surrounding the process of hydraulic fracturing or fracking. He explores whether the economic potential is real and whether it is … | Marq de Villiers | 19 | 2018 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Winners and LosersStrategies for Countries to Consider From: Ecological Footprint |
If we take resource security seriously, how does it shift development strategies? How will our ability to succeed shift in a world of climate change and resource constraints? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From  NEW! 7. The Energy Turnaround“Electrifying Everything” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 7 focuses on energy consumption and a clean energy future, discussing clean power technologies, fairness of pushing expensive clean energy, fossil fuel industry’s power, the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From  NEW! Another End of the World is Possible |
In this chapter, Boyd explains why he tackles the climate crisis with " tragic optimism and a pair of not-at-all-rosy “can-do pessimism” goggles." | Andrew Boyd | 9 | 2023 | $0.90 Add |
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From Bulk Water TransfersFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers investigates the impact of a series of hydrological mega-projects occurring around the world, and the potential risks and benefits associates with re-engineering … | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From  City and CountryFrom: The Culture of Nature |
The author analyzes the blurring of rural and urban identities in popular culture, including an examination of mainstream advertisements. The chapter includes 10 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 31 | 2019 | $3.10 Add |
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From  Ditching our Climate-Wrecking StoriesFrom: Changing Tides |
We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with … | Alejandro Frid | 8 | 2019 | $0.80 Add |
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From  NEW! EcosocialismPART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 9 examines the argument for ecosocialism, its framework, and offers several critiques of existing capitalism, and encourages the reader to raid a critical eye towards the present system … | Aaron Saad | 16 | 2022 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Entrophic FuturesFrom: Consuming Sustainability |
- | Debra Davidson; Michael Gismondi | 23 | 2005 | $2.30 Add |
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From  Epilogue: The Ocean TodayFrom: 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 the epilogue, Trethewey looks ahead to the … | Laura Trethewey | 12 | 2020 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Finding Your People and Your Practice in the Ecosystem of the Climate Justice Movement |
In Chapter 7 Kaufman explores the many ways that the movement for a just transition can be organized, illustrating to the reader how there are many ways to fight for climate action that best … | Cynthia Kaufman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From Footprint ScenariosWays Out of Global Overshoot From: Ecological Footprint |
In the end, it is about choice – what are the options? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From  GraywaterFrom: Dry Run |
Unlike rainwater, which is highly variable both year to year and seasonally, graywater tends to be reliably present in most commercial environments, so why use potable water for flushing toilets, … | Jerry Yudelson | 11 | 2010 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Growing CommunityCommunity Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty |
- | Yolanda Hansen | 18 | 2010 | $2.52 Add |
