Sustainability
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Towards a System of LifeFrom: 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 | 39 | 2017 | $3.90 Add |
From Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and HowFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
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? … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From NEW! Welcome to the Anthropocene |
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 … | Tom Rand | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
From At the Edge of Geologic EpochsFrom: Changing Tides |
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 … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
From Brown WaterFrom: Dry Run |
One of my favorite green building technologies is rainwater harvesting: the capture, treatment and use of rainwater for uses inside the building, such as toilet flushing and cooling-tower makeup … | Jerry Yudelson | 26 | 2010 | $2.60 Add |
From Coming from GratitudeFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We have received an inestimable gift. To be alive in this beautiful, self-organizing universe — to participate in the dance of life with senses to perceive it, lungs that breathe it, organs … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
From Corporate TransformationFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter explores ways in which the underlying corporate structure upon which our economy is built will need to reorganize and refocus towards long term sustainability. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 26 | 2018 | $2.60 Add |
From NEW! Epilogue and Epi-Epilogue |
In the epilogue, Boyd reflects on how climate change has worsened since he began researching for this book. He provides a brief update of each interviewee and whether their opinions have changed … | Andrew Boyd | 12 | 2023 | $1.20 Add |
From Food Sovereignty in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario |
Harriet Friedmann | 21 | 2010 | $2.94 Add | |
From Footprint CalculationsIndividualds, Cities, Countries, Products, and Companies From: Ecological Footprint |
How does the Ecological Footprint approach inform urban planning, country strategies, product development? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 30 | 2019 | $3.00 Add |
From From Reserve to MicroenvironmentNature Parks and Zoos From: The Culture of Nature |
This chapter focuses on the convergence of park creation, development, and tourism through an examination of zoos, and national and nature parks. The chapter includes 10 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 37 | 2019 | $3.70 Add |
From Indigenous LeadershipFrom: A Good War |
In Chapter 9, Klein explores the leadership and initiative coming from Indigenous communities across Canada to fight for climate action. Klein focuses the chapter through highlight the work of … | Seth Klein | 28 | 2020 | $2.80 Add |
From NEW! Introducing the Impact Assessment Act’s Sustainability-Based Agenda |
This chapter draw on the available literature and lessons from experience to address four areas: the basics of what “contribution to sustainability” now means and entails and what … | Robert B. Gibson | 23 | 2021 | $2.30 Add |
From Minimizing Farming’s Water NeedsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the vast amount of water used by the agricultural sector and ways to reduce that total, either by changing how we grow crops or by changing which crops we grow. | Marq de Villiers | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From NEW! Offering and Tending to the Land |
This chapter describes the reciprocal relationship Indigenous cultures have traditionally cultivated with the land, presenting such relationships as a model for ecological protection and restoration. | Osprey Orielle Lake | 25 | 2024 | $2.50 Add |
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksLand Use and Urban Form |
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 |