Sustainability
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From ![]() Appendix AA Chief Seattle's Message From: Coming Back to Life |
Chief Sealth, or Seattle as he is now known, delivered a speech in his native Duwamish to his tribal assembly in the Pacific Northwest in 1854. Notes on the speech were jotted down by one Dr. … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 3 | 2014 | $0.30 Add |
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From ![]() Appendix BThe Bestiary From: Coming Back to Life |
A Poem by Joanna Macy | Joanna Macy | 4 | 2014 | $0.40 Add |
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From ![]() Appendix CEthics and Declarations of Rights From: Coming Back to Life |
Here are documents and web links of major initiatives for the Great Turning that are close to Joanna’s and Molly’s hearts, having been the focus of our activism for many years and … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 5 | 2014 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Are Dams Really that Bad?From: Back to the Well |
In this chapter, de Villiers discusses the controversies surrounding dams and hydroelectricity. Using a variety of case studies, he explores their benefits, as well as their impacts on both … | Marq de Villiers | 28 | 2018 | $2.80 Add |
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From ![]() Area as CurrencyHow Much Biocapacity Does a Person Need? From: Ecological Footprint |
A deeper introduction to the Footprint, explaining the underlying physical principles and idea of accounting. | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 23 | 2019 | $2.30 Add |
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From ![]() Arenas of AppropriationFrom: Fair Future |
Tilman Santarius; Wolfgang Sachs | 36 | 2005 | $3.60 Add | |
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From ![]() NEW! Integrating Climate Change Mitigation into the Impact Assessment Act |
This chapter considers the impacts of a proposed project on GHG emissions and carbon sinks at five critical stages of IA: triggering, information gathering, analysis, the project decision, and … | Meinhard Doelle | 24 | 2021 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() At the Edge of Geologic EpochsFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter explores how indigenous world views might help us address climate change. Intergenerational equity: its prevalence in Indigenous world views and how it is being integrated into other … | Alejandro Frid | 10 | 2019 | $1.00 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Author’s Note and Foreward |
In the author’s note and foreward, Lake and Camp-Horinek discuss the ecological impact of human systems and ways our collective worldview must change in order to address the issue. | Casey Camp-Horinek; Osprey Orielle Lake | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
![]() Back to the WellRethinking the Future of Water |
Droughts. Floods. Contamination. Climate change. The perils to the global fresh-water supply have never been so clear or so numerous, as the crisis in Cape Town’s water supply in early 2018 … | 378 | View | ||
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From ![]() Beautiful ProtestFrom: Changing Tides |
This chapter will draw on the parallels between BC’s coastal First Nations and other Indigenous groups who have been integrating the traditional and the modern (including science) to … | Alejandro Frid | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Being PresentFrom: Intrinsic Hope |
The first habit of hope I’d like to discuss is being present. This means paying attention to whatever is going on and not getting sidetracked or distracted — in other words, living … | Kate Davies | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Beyond Zero: The Time Value of Carbon |
This chapter highlights the role of buildings and building materials in meeting the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement. | Erin McDade | 9 | 2017 | $0.90 Add |
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From ![]() Biodiversity: Getting it Under Your Skin |
Humans often need to see threats to the environment, and, by extension to their health and survival. Progressive losses over time can dilute urgency and awareness. So can progressive gains. One … | Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott | 24 | 2017 | $2.40 Add |
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From ![]() Bison, Blue Jays, Rainbow and WalleyePeace River Biodiversity From: Damming the Peace |
B.C. wildlife biologist Brian Churchill describes B.C.’s Peace River Valley’s unique biodiversity and what would be destroyed by the Site C dam under construction there. Adjacent to … | Brian Churchill | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() BlackwaterFrom: Dry Run |
However, wastewater is also another water source; after all if you live inland along a large river, your water supply started upriver as someone else’s wastewater. So, wastewater is just … | Jerry Yudelson | 16 | 2010 | $1.60 Add |















