Religion

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Evaluating New Ideas for Your New Society

Evaluating New Ideas for Your New Society

From: Curing Affluenza

Chapter 8 examines how to enact social change, discussing topics including community influence, policies and lobbying, democracy, laws and budgets, examples of tackling affluenza through a … 40 $4.00 Add
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Everything Is Connected
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Everything Is Connected

From: The Web of Meaning

This chapter contrasts the European tradition of a self-contained individual and consciousness with the Buddhist (and other) traditions of the boundaries separating the self from others as all … 30 $3.00 Add
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Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy

Fears of Franco-American Conspiracy

SECTION THREE - The reception of franco-americans

From: A Distinct Alien Race

In the twenty years before 1900, a segment of the U.S. press presented the view that the Québec Roman Catholic hierarchy conspired to conquer New England. The Franco-American workers, this … 35 $3.50 Add
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Food Co-ops and the Local Economy

Food Co-ops and the Local Economy

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes the benefits of food co-ops to the local economy via the retention of profits, local supply chains, and the value of using the language of "economic development" … 18 $1.80 Add
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Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food

Food Prices and the People Who Grow Our Food

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes food prices and the effect on the people who grow our food. How is the price of food determined and how does it impact every other link in the food chain? How does market … 17 $1.70 Add
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Forward

Forward

From: Coming Back to Life

A new millennium, a time of planetary destruction but also planetary communication, the loss of legitimacy among our religious institutions, youth alienation, species disappearance — all … 4 $0.40 Add
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From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From Cultural Captivity to Focused Intention

From: Resilience Imperative

We are so interconnected that if Western shoppers stopped going to Walmart to get more on the cheap, the Chinese economy might falter, putting at risk the financing of American debt and throwing … ; 33 $3.30 Add
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From Fixed Self to Infinite L
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From Fixed Self to Infinite L

The Fractal Nature of Identity

From: The Web of Meaning

This chapter asserts that once the reality of a connected universe is embraced, new forms of identity naturally emerge. Rejecting dualism and reductionism, paradigm shifts, pantheism, Buddhism, … 21 $2.10 Add
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From the Heart

From the Heart

The Golden Rule with Karen Armstrong and Joan Halifax

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Compassion is a virtuous cycle, and practicing the Golden Rule yields an expanded sense of self, which yields ever more compassionate behavior.philosophers and religious leaders such as … 7 $0.70 Add
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From the Heart

From the Heart

Speak the Truth, but not to Punish with Thich Nhat Hanh

From: I'm Right and You're an Idiot

Thich Nhat Hanh used the example of a pine tree and suggested, what if that tree asked us what it could do to help the world? Our answer would be very clear: “You should be a beautiful, … 10 $1.00 Add
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Going Forth

Going Forth

From: Coming Back to Life

The culmination of the workshop serves as a bridge between the experiences of our work together (described in the last four chapters) and the daily lives we are about to resume. We have come to … ; 27 $2.70 Add
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Going Mobile

Going Mobile

From: BlackBerry Town

Howitt details the creation and rollout of the Inter@ctive Pager 900. Examines the leadup to Research in Motion’s first smartphone. 11 $1.10 Add
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Green Growth--A Dangerous Distraction?

Green Growth–A Dangerous Distraction?

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author examines the concept of "sustainable growth" and whether it is a viable solution to overshoot. 28 $2.80 Add
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Grocery Stores

Grocery Stores

The Food System’s Control Center

From: Grocery Story

The anti-competetive business as usual practiced by Canada’s grocery giants and the testing of the boundaries of the law is described. Lost in this regime is flavour, genetic diversity, and … 25 $2.50 Add
Grocery Story

Grocery Story

The Promise of Food Co-ops in the Age of Grocery Store Giants

Food has become ground-zero in our efforts to increase awareness of how our choices impact the world. Yet while we have begun to transform our communities and dinner plates, the most … 306 View
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Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement

Growing Food Co-ops, Growing the Movement

From: Grocery Story

The Kootenay Co-op expansion to a new location is described through member loans and– a first in food co-op history– as a developer of Nelson Commons, residential units above the … 12 $1.20 Add