Sustainability
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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From Honoring Our Pain for the WorldFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh was asked, “What do we most need to do to save our world?” His questioners probably expected him to identify the best strategies to pursue, but Thich Nhat … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 30 | 2014 | $3.00 Add |
From On the Frontiers of CapitalNuclear Plants and Other Environmental Architectures From: The Culture of Nature |
The author explores the impact of the atomic age on the environment and landscape. The chapter includes 17 photos and images. | Alexander Wilson | 39 | 2019 | $3.90 Add |
From Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksHousing and Community Development |
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 NEW! Principle I – Practice LeadershipFrom: Building Community |
Critical Leadership Actions – Research Corner – Case Study: Local Community Collaboration in the Apuseni Mountains, Huedin, Romania – Case Study: Inner City Urban Recovery, … | James S. Gruber | 19 | 2020 | $1.90 Add |
From NEW! Purpose, Need, and Alternatives Through the Lens of Sustainability and the Public Interest |
This chapter focuses on four key Section 22 factors that inform IA processes for projects within federal jurisdiction that are designated for assessment under the Act: the purpose of the project, … | Arlene Kwasniak | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
From Step 3: Developing Strategies – BarriersConvenience: Making it Easy to Act |
If the behavior is unpleasant or time-consuming, for example, no matter how well you address internal barriers your community-based social marketing strategy will be unsuccessful. The first step … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 9 | 2011 | $0.90 Add |
From Sustainable Development at the Local Level |
This chapter tackles sustainable development at the local level and highlights some projects undertaken under municipal mandates. This study is limited to the Nordic capitals — Stockholm, … | Dominique Côté; Marie-France Raynault; Sébastien Chartrand | 23 | 2015 | $2.30 Add |
From The Consumer in a Changing Food SystemFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Profitability is determined in the market. Consumers must value products sufficiently to pay a price that exceeds the cost of production and transportation. Price is determined by myriad factors, … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
From The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherBridging Peak Oil and Climate Change Activism From: Peak Everything |
The problems of Climate Change and Peak Oil both result from societal dependence on fossil fuels. Climate Change has to do with carbon emissions and their effects — including the impacts on … | Richard Heinberg | 19 | 2010 | $1.90 Add |
From The World at 1°C: A Guide to Climate ViolenceFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate violence is always the result of a collision between acute weather conditions and acute social realities. Poverty, inequality, state neglect, improper planning and abandonment lay the … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 21 | 2018 | $2.10 Add |
From TransformationFrom: Changing Tides |
In the Conclusion Frid argues that we are on a knife edge and the time to act is now. Frid stresses how our actions in the next few decades of the 21st Century, will impact our world for the next … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
From UNESCODownstream Impact on the Athabasca Delta From: Damming the Peace |
Journalist Andrew Nikiforuk explores the linkages between the Site C dam under construction in B.C.’s Peace River Valley, fracking in the adjacent Moberly Field, and the potential impact on … | Andrew Nikiforuk | 8 | 2018 | $0.80 Add |
From A Plausable Future: Approaching ApocalypseFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Climate change represents the extinction of predictability, a demolition of certainties. By the end of the 21st century, the environmental conditions on up to a third of the Earth’s surface … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 24 | 2018 | $2.40 Add |
From AppendixPolicy Recommendations for Developing an Inclusive Canadian Agricultural Policy |
- | Annette Aurelie Desmarais; Hannah Wittman | 3 | 2010 | $0.42 Add |
From Cautionary TalesWhat Not to Do From: A Good War |
In Chapter 11, Klein examines the risk of losing civil liberties through Wartime Measures Acts. Focuses on issues relating to Refugee and Immigration Laws in Canada, Canadian Aid to Other Parts … | Seth Klein | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
From ChinaA New Model of Development From: Ecological Footprint |
What’s the trajectory for China? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 7 | 2019 | $0.70 Add |