Sustainability
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From  Rivers and Lakes in TroubleFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how surface water – lakes and rivers – are some of the most vulnerable to contamination and destruction as a result of human action. | Marq de Villiers | 27 | 2018 | $2.70 Add |
 NEW! Runaway ClimateWhat the geological past can tell us about the coming climate change catastrophe |
56 million years ago our planet experienced rapid, intense warming known as the Paleocene Eocene Thermal Maximum, resulting in a global temperature increase of about 7°C. Runaway … | 256 | View | ||
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From  Sacred GeographyFrom: The Wayfinders |
From The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World | Wade Davis | 46 | 2009 | $4.60 Add |
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From  Saving Ecosystems |
Topics include: Continental Conservation – Species Protection – Protecting the Land – Conservation Philanthropy – What is Nature Worth? – Conservation Finance … | Andrés R. Edwards | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Savoring the Biosphere |
Microbes are at the origins of all life on our planet, silent partners to the evolution of every form of life and long, long before Homo sapiens arrived on the scene. We are only now learning of … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 22 | 2017 | $2.20 Add |
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From  Scaling Up – How Local Farms Will Feed AmericaFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The shifting agricultural paradigm requires that every region of the country produce the diversity of products that it is capable of producing — that monoculture and exclusive production … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From Scarcity, Yes; Conflicts, MaybeFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers asks whether water shortages lead to war, under what circumstances these conflicts occur, and where in the world they are most likely to spark. | Marq de Villiers | 35 | 2018 | $3.50 Add |
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From  NEW! A Learning-Focused Analysis of Canada’s Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter analyzes the learning potential presented by the Impact Assessment Act (IAA) by examining opportunities for learning at multiple levels of social organization; that is, by employ … | Alan P. Diduck | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Sculpted by River and StoryFrom: Changing Tides |
Frid explores the impact of the atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) which despite being hard to see itself, its impacts are being felt and seen across coast British Columbia. Frid examines the … | Alejandro Frid | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Seeing With New EyesFrom: Coming Back to Life |
We move into the next stage of the Spiral as we realize from personal experience that it is from our connectivity that our pain for the world arises. The very distress that, when we hid it, … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 34 | 2014 | $3.40 Add |
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From  NEW! Self-Care |
In Chapter 8 Kaufman concludes the book by reflecting on the importance of maintaining your own mental health and happiness in the face of the climate crisis. The chapter discusses topics such as … | Cynthia Kaufman | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
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From  SeperationFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
No matter where we may be, we are inseparable from nature. We live in nature, we live with nature, we rely on nature, and we are part of nature. Yet our language hides this. When we use words … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 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  Size Matters: Can Buildings Be Too Tall? |
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 … | Ann Edminster | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Social Democracy and a Green New DealPART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake |
Chapter 7 examines the potential role social democracy can play in reshaping the current system, challenging the present neoliberal hegemony with a justice-based Green New Deal to fight the … | Aaron Saad | 21 | 2022 | $2.10 Add |
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From Soft-Path SolutionsFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers continues to discuss efficiency and suggests that we should focus on increasing that instead of trying to redistribute and increase our water supply. | Marq de Villiers | 20 | 2018 | $2.00 Add |
