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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Corporate Transformation From: A Finer Future View Collection: Income Inequality in Canada: In Search of a Fairer Future New Society Publishers	This chapter explores ways in which the underlying corporate structure upon which our economy is built will need to reorganize and refocus towards long term sustainability.	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	26	2018	$2.60 Add
From Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It From: The New Carbon Architecture View New Society Publishers	This chapter draws upon the results of Life Cycle Assessment studies to summarize what we know about whole building embodied carbon, and to highlight best opportunities for innovation and …	Barbara Rodriquez Droguett; Catherine De Wolf; Kathrina Simonen	15	2017	$1.50 Add
From Creating and Deepening Grower-Eater Relations From: Growing and Eating Sustainably View Fernwood Publishing	In this chapter the authors maintain that a stronger connection between growers and eaters is crucial for developing more environmentally sound and socially just food systems. In addition to …	Dana James	28	2021	$2.80 Add
From Croplands, Forests, and Oceans How Much Biocapacity Do We Have? From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	This is the other side of the coin: what nature is able to deliver. It explains why regeneration is the mother of all material constraints.	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	22	2019	$2.20 Add
From CSA From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	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 …	Gary S. Kleppel	5	2014	$0.50 Add
From Deep Time – Reconnecting with Past and Future Generations From: Coming Back to Life View New Society Publishers	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, …	Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown	23	2014	$2.30 Add
From NEW! Degrowth PART 3: The System-Changing Frameworks From: Worlds at Stake View Fernwood Publishing	Chapter 8 explores the idea of degrowth, as opposed to the role of perpetual economic growth which had led to the current ecological crisis.	Aaron Saad	20	2022	$2.00 Add
From Developing Strategies – Revisited From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior View New Society Publishers	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 …	Doug McKenzie-Mohr	7	2011	$0.70 Add
From Dissociation From: Radical Transformation View Between The Lines	Readings in Part 1 of this title entitled "The Crisis of Civilization" explore the factors that have brought our society to the brink of collapse, from the increasingly complex systems …	Kevin MacKay	12	2017	$1.20 Add
From Ditching our Climate-Wrecking Stories From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	We are well-poised to ditch “what has been our most venerated and engrained story since the mid-1700s. The one in which we tell ourselves that burning more fossil fuels is synonymous with …	Alejandro Frid	8	2019	$0.80 Add
From Diversity in Agriculture From: Emergent Agriculture View New Society Publishers	For the farmer, biodiversity is both domestic and wild, and a farm can be a place where biodiversity flourishes or from which it is excluded. The way farmers relate to biodiversity distinguishes …	Gary S. Kleppel	14	2014	$1.40 Add
Dry Run Preventing the Next Urban Water Crisis New Society Publishers	In the Age of Scarcity now upon us, fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for …	Jerry Yudelson	312	2010	View
NEW! Earthkeeping love notes to tough times	The author of Alder Music, Gary Saunders returns with an evocative, lyrical, and immersive collection of personal essays on our relationship with nature and with each other. In nine sections, …		316		View
From Echoes Across the Lake From: Changing Tides View New Society Publishers	This chapter depicts Frid’s experiences at the hunting and spiritual camp of the Tsilhqot’in First Nations at Teztan Biny (Fish Lake). Through it, Frid further develops on the themes …	Alejandro Frid	11	2019	$1.10 Add
Ecological Footprint Managing Our Biocapacity Budget	Our economy is running a Bernie Madoff-style Ponzi scheme with the planet. We use future resources to run the present, using more than Earth can replenish. Like any such scheme, this works for a …		290		View
From Ecological Hinterland How much Biocapacity Does a City Need? From: Ecological Footprint View New Society Publishers	This chapter uses the city lens – explaining a city metabolism and its requirement of distant ecosystems to operate.	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	17	2019	$1.70 Add