Sustainability

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Guiding the Work that Reconnects

From: Coming Back to Life

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Never before in history have our destinies been so intertwined. The crises facing us are too vast and complex for any one of us alone to comprehend, much less adequately respond. The fact that … ; 18 $1.80 Add
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Land & Sea & Sky

Part Seven

From: Earthkeeping

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Part Seven contains the sections: Two Rural Dreams, Bonavista Traverse, Sailing Bloody Reach, Sable Island: Ultimate Shunpiking, Sky Stone, and Plastic Ocean Blues. Topics discussed include … 34 $3.40 Add
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Moving Money From Harm to Healing

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores ways in which the global economy can move to support the planet instead of a small minority of shareholders. ; ; ; 20 $2.00 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Population, Resources, and Human Idealism

From: Peak Everything

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No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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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 … 19 $1.90 Add
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Paying for Mobilization, Then and Now

From: A Good War

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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 … 22 $2.20 Add
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Putting Multi-Jurisdictional Impact Assessment into Action Under the Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter reviews, explains, and assesses traditional approaches to address Multi-jurisdictional Impact Assessment (MJIA) in order to place and evaluate the methods set out in the Impact … ; 29 $2.90 Add
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Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall?

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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In this chapter, the author seeks to answer the question: are there limits to how much increases in urban density — especially via vertical growth — will contribute to rather than … 11 $1.10 Add
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Step 3: Developing Strategies – Communication

Communication: Creating Effective Messages

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Much of human communication involves persuasion. Whether done by a four-year-old or a marketing firm, the aims are the same: to influence our attitudes and/or our behavior. The transition to a … 21 $0.42 Add
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Taking Action

From: Intrinsic Hope

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If we can accept that the global eco-social crisis is human caused, we have the possibility of taking effective action. Taking action is one of the best ways to nurture intrinsic hope. … 17 $1.70 Add
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The New Normal

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be … 15 $1.50 Add
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Towards a System of Life

From: Radical Transformation

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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. 39 $3.90 Add
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Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and How

From: The Memory We Could Be

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Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? … 21 $2.10 Add
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Welcome to the Anthropocene

From: The Case for Climate Capitalism

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In this chapter, Rand summarizes the challenges facing humanity if it wants to survive the 21st century. He concludes with a letter to his son, giving a vision of a future where climate change is … 20 $2.00 Add
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At the Edge of Geologic Epochs

From: Changing Tides

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This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … 10 $1.00 Add