Sustainability

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Developing Strategies – Revisited

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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The preceding seven chapters introduced a series of behavior change tools that can be incorporated into a communitybased social marketing strategy. To showcase how to utilize these tools, a … 7 $0.70 Add
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Green Water

From: Dry Run

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In this chapter, you’ll learn about opportunities for conserving the use of potable water in landscape, ways to integrate stormwater management with landscaping and systems for reusing … 12 $1.20 Add
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More People Using Ever More Water

From: Back to the Well

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In this chapter, de Villiers looks at the impact of population growth on water availability, and tries to answer the question of whether there will be enough clean, safe water for a more populous … 9 $0.90 Add
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Notes on Sources

From: The Culture of Nature

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Notes on sources 23 $2.30 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Community Economic Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on … 20 $2.00 Add
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Seeing With New Eyes

From: Coming Back to Life

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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, … ; 34 $3.40 Add
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The Scope and Focus of Cumulative Effects and Regional Assessment

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter examines the provisions for cumulative effects and regional assessment under Canada’s Impact Assessment Act (IAA) in light of established standards and suggests actions needed … ; 16 $1.60 Add
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The Slow Money

From: Emergent Agriculture

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Slow Money argues for the diversion of capital from global markets to local markets – to farms, farmers’ markets, and restaurants within one’s own foodshed. Slow Money creates … 6 $0.60 Add
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Triumph of the Sun

The Mother of All Disruptions

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores the disruptive potential of solar power to completely transform the way that we produce and use electricity as a society. ; ; ; 47 $4.70 Add
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A Possible Future: The World We Can Win

From: The Memory We Could Be

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From a climatic perspective, our transformation requires two axes: a massive reduction of emissions and a massive reduction of injustice. We must diminish vulnerabilities, reduce the drivers of … 23 $2.30 Add
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Africa

Protecting One's Resources

From: Ecological Footprint

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How can Ecological Footprint accounting help frame risks and opportunities in countries with low income, and sometimes also low biocapacity? ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Assessing the Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Other Identity Factors in the New Canadian Impact Assessment Act

From: The Next Generation of Impact Assessment

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This chapter draws from feminist and resource management scholarship to identify key trends important to the understanding and realization of good-practice gender and diversity analysis and … ; 20 $2.00 Add
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CSA

From: Emergent Agriculture

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The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model is transformative. It changes the way farmers farm, the way markets function, and the way consumers relate to the production chain. The CSA model … 5 $0.50 Add
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Deep Time – Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations

From: Coming Back to Life

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People of today relate to time in a way that is surely unique in history. The technologies and economic forces unleashed by the Industrial Growth Society radically alter our experience of time, … ; 23 $2.30 Add
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Level The Playing Field

From: A Finer Future

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This chapter explores methods for addressing inequality in our society and asks whether basic income or job guarantees could be effective solutions. ; ; ; 21 $2.10 Add