Sustainability
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From  New WaterFrom: Dry Run |
In this chapter, we’ll learn more about two sources of "new water" from technologies not typically in widespread use today throughout the US, desalination of seawater and expanded … | Jerry Yudelson | 13 | 2010 | $1.30 Add |
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From  Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their GovernmentsTools for Community Sustainability |
Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some … | Marc Roseland | 12 | 2012 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle L – Resolve ConflictsFrom: Building Community |
Preventing Conflict – Research Corner – Understanding and Addressing Conflict – Case Study: Community-Driven Regional Land Use and Transportation Planning in Southern New … | James S. Gruber | 25 | 2020 | $2.50 Add |
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From  Protected Areas and Endangered SpeciesFrom: Environmental Law, 5/e |
Discusses legal safeguards for endangered spaces and species, including conservation mechanisms for private lands, the protection of endangered species, the federal Species at Risk Act and animal … | Jamie Benidickson | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From  Reframing the DebateFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers begins approaching solutions for water crises by asking us to reframe the issue, by thinking and acting on a local level. | Marq de Villiers | 6 | 2018 | $0.60 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  Step 5: Broad-scale Implementation and Evaluation |
When a pilot project has demonstrated that a behavioral change can be brought about cost-effectively, it is time to broadly implement the strategy. Prior to broad-scale implementation, collect … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 3 | 2011 | $0.30 Add |
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From  The End of One Era, The Beginning of AnotherTalking Ourselves to Extinction From: Peak Everything |
Language is a powerful meta-tool that dramatically amplifies cooperative human efforts to control the environment. Language also opens the possibility for religion and science — which … | Richard Heinberg | 14 | 2010 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Visible from SpaceFrom: Charging Ahead |
This chapter looks at Hydro-Quebec, criticisms, and environmental concerns. | Jean-Benoît Nadeau; Julie Barlow | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From NEW! A Toolbox of Leadership StrategiesFrom: Building Community |
Collaborative Leadership and Empowerment – A Collaborative Planning Approach – Notes from the Field: Planning, Organizing, and Facilitating a Community Meeting – The Way Forward 301 | James S. Gruber | 22 | 2020 | $2.20 Add |
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From Concluding thoughts |
Implementing a community-based social marketing strategy requires careful preliminary research, strategy development, piloting, implementation and evaluation. However, this attention to detail is … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 7 | 2011 | $0.70 Add |
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From  Confront the Myth of GrowthFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter debunks the myth that indefinite growth is necessary for our economy to sustain itself. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
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From  EpilogueThe COVID-19 Pandemic and How a Recognized Emergency makes the Impossible Possible From: A Good War |
In the Epilogue, Klein shares his own reflections on the pandemic and the lessons we can learn from it regarding climate action and mobilization. | Seth Klein | 8 | 2020 | $0.80 Add |
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From Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their GovernmentsLessons and Challenges |
There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … | Marc Roseland | 6 | 2012 | $0.60 Add |
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From Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four CitiesFrom: Dry Run |
In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … | Jerry Yudelson | 21 | 2010 | $2.10 Add |
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From  NEW! Sustainability-Based Decision Making |
This chapter looks more closely at the role of sustainability considerations in decision making under the Impact Assessment Act (IAA). | Robert B. Gibson | 25 | 2021 | $2.50 Add |
