Green Activism

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Clean Money Revolution

Reinventing Power, Purpose, and Capitalism

 By 2050, $40 trillion will change hands in North America alone. From Boomers to Millennials, the largest intergenerational wealth transfer in history is underway and the ramifications will remake … ; 274 View

Common Threads

Weaving Community through Collaborative Eco-Art

 Common Threads is a unique guide to engaging community members in communal handwork for the greater good. Author Sharon Kallis provides a wealth of ideas for: * Working with unwanted natural … 283 View

Emergent Agriculture

Farming, Sustainability and the Return of the Local Economy

 Long embraced by corporations who are driven only by the desire for profit, industrial agriculture wastes precious resources and spews millions of tons of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere … 195 View

Fostering Sustainable Behavior

An Introduction to Community-Based Social Marketing (Third Edition)

 We are consuming resources and polluting our environment at a rate that is outstripping our planet’s ability to support us. To create a sustainable future, we must not only change our own … 184 View

Getting to Zero

Canada Confronts Global Warming

 In this book, long-time social and environmental activist Tony Clarke provides hard-to-find information and analysis about what Canada is and is not doing as of 2018 to get to zero emissions. He … 248 View
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Foreward, Prefaces and Introduction

From: Clean Money Revolution

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 The world of money, finance, and investment is ripe for major reform and reinvention. We’re seeing more and more clean food, clean energy, and clean buildings. Now clean money is also on … ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Fostering Sustainable Behavior

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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 Behavior change is the cornerstone of sustainability. Whether you are working on protecting wetlands, enhancing water or energy efficiency, altering modal transportation choices, or any of the … 13 $0.13 Add
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Introduction

From: Common Threads

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 By recognizing that human culture is a part of the ecosystem — not separate — and by creatively reimagining what symbiotic relationships of local production and consumption might look … 6 $0.60 Add
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Introduction

On the Cusp of a Revolution

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 Today’s shifting agricultural paradigm is doing much the same thing. It is changing the way we produce food, how and where we get it, and what it does to our health, our pocket books, and … 5 $0.50 Add
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Part 1: Sustainable Communities, Sustainable Planet

The Context for Sustainable Communities

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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 This chapter explores the context for sustainable communities. Acting locally is more significant when we think globally, so that is where we begin our discussion of "sustainable … 15 $1.50 Add
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A New Approach to Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 The emergent agriculture is grounded in the philosophies of sustainability, local production, and the values of small-scale, family farming. The emergent agriculture values the crafts of the land … 11 $1.10 Add
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Work With What You Have at Hand

From: Common Threads

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 In most environmental stewardship practice, conversations about invasive and native species are inclined to dualistic thinking: invasive plant = bad. But what if invasive species could be useful … 10 $1.00 Add
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Building for Change From the Ground Up

From: Common Threads

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 Beyond food, what if we began to make some of the things that we need for ourselves again as a cultural and social norm? And what if our cities and towns supported this behavior; what would that … 17 $1.70 Add