Sustainability
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| Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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![]() The New Carbon ArchitectureBuiding to Cool the Climate |
"Green buildings" that slash energy use and carbon emissions are all the rage, but they aren’t enough. The hidden culprit is embodied carbon — the carbon emitted when … | Bruce King | 186 | 2017 | View |
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From ![]() The New NormalFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Farmers have played roulette with the weather for 10,000 years. They know the risks and they live with them. They tend to believe that if the weather beats them down this year, things will be … | Gary S. Kleppel | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
![]() NEW! The New Sustainability Edge: Redefining Business from Startups to Industry Leaders |
Sustainability has become a buzzword in business, politics, and academia—but are we truly making a difference? Are today’s corporations and entrepreneurs prioritizing long-term sustainability, or … | Khalid Hasan; Philip Kotler | 512 | 2025 | View |
![]() NEW! The Next Generation of Impact AssessmentA Critical Review of the Canadian Impact Assessment Act |
Legislated impact assessment requirements were first introduced over fifty years ago with the National Environmental Policy Act in the United States and have since spread to over a hundred and … | A. John Sinclair; Meinhard Doelle | 614 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() The Paradox of AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
The paradox of agriculture. Our image of what we want farming to be and the reality of what it has become. The words unsustainable, dangerous, inhumane, dehumanizing, and toxic are barely … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The Poverty of Weath: Economics and EcologyFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
One of the major obstacles to ecological realism lies in the strength of orthodox visions of the economy, entirely segregated from issues of ecology. These framings offer us simplistic diagnoses … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Federal Jurisdiction and the Impact Assessment ActTrojan Horse or Rational Ecological Accounting? |
This chapter explores key questions respecting federal jurisdiction with regard to the IAA, beginning with a discussion of the constitutional division of powers in Canada, federalism and … | Anna Johnston | 22 | 2021 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() The Rediscovery of the CommonsFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
The title of this chapter, “The Rediscovery of the Commons,” has a certain ironic edge because for hundreds of millions of people around the world, the commons has never gone away. It … | David Bollier | 12 | 2014 | $1.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Assessing the Intersections of Sex, Gender, and Other Identity Factors in the New Canadian Impact Assessment Act |
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 … | Heidi Walker; Maureen G. Reed | 20 | 2021 | $2.00 Add |
![]() NEW! The Sea Is Rising and So Are WeA Climate Justice Handbook |
The Sea is Rising and So Are We: A Climate Justice Handbook is an invitation to get involved in the movement to build a just and sustainable world in the face of the most urgent challenge our … | Bill McKibben; Cynthia Kaufman | 193 | 2021 | View |
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From ![]() The Slow MoneyFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
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 … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From ![]() The State of Our GroundwaterFrom: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers explores how many parts of the world are being impacted or will be impacted by rapidly diminishing and increasingly polluted groundwater sources. | Marq de Villiers | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! The Story is in Our BonesOrigin Stories to Remake Our World |
In this chapter, Lake describes how Western cultures contribute to our alienation from nature through the promotion of patriarchy, supremacy over nature, and separation from our intuitive … | Osprey Orielle Lake | 19 | 2024 | $1.90 Add |
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From ![]() The Story that Got Us in TroubleFrom: A Finer Future |
This chapter outlines the factors that have led society to the precipice of collapse: institutionalized greed, increased stratification of wealth and unregulated economic growth. | Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis | 17 | 2018 | $1.70 Add |
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From ![]() The Tyranny of the “Tragedy” MythFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
For at least a generation, the very idea of the commons has been marginalized and dismissed as a misguided way to manage esources: the so-called tragedy of the commons. Over the past several … | David Bollier | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() The Un-SustainableFrom: The Great Greenwashing |
From The Great Greenwashing: How Brands, Governments, and Influencers Are Lying to You | John Pabon | 21 | 2024 | $2.10 Add |














