Green Activism

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How "Green" Lost Its Groove

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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In this chapter, Grover details the ways in which an over-focus on purity is impeding the environmental movement, and reveals a lack of faith in collective action. 12 $1.20 Add
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Interlude

Sonnet 18

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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William Shakespeare’s "Sonnet 18." 1 $0.10 Add
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Section B: Stories and Reflections

PART II

From: Changemakers

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The second section explores powerful new stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings of food, shelter, energy, transportation, waste, and economics, and transformed … ; 45 $4.50 Add
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Step 2: Identifying Barriers and Benefits

From: Fostering Sustainable Behavior

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Uncovering barriers and benefits involves four steps. 1) Begin by reviewing relevant articles and reports. 2) Following this review, carry out observations of people engaging in the behavior you … 20 $0.40 Add
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Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings

From: Facing the Climate Emergency

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This chapter suggests that readers must be willing to accept and cope with the feelings of fear and grief that accompany the thought of climate change. By not allowing these negative feelings to … ; 24 $2.40 Add
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What We Are Up Against

Science and Politics

From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

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In Chapter 1, Kaufman provides an overview of the scientific and political challenges climate activists face in the fight for climate justice. The chapter discusses topics including the … 16 $1.60 Add
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Will Capitalists Save Us? What about Governments?

From: Future on Fire

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Chapter 2 considered who we should look to for guidance in fighting climate change and how we can not leave it in the hands of the market. Topics discussed include the media industries … 11 $1.10 Add
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Another World Is Possible

From: The Sea Is Rising and So Are We

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In Chapter 2, Kaufman provides a glimpse of what a post transition world might look like after we move away from a society built on burning fossil fuels and on exploitative of the third world, to … 20 $2.00 Add
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Chapter 3: Small Is Beautiful

PART I: RED HORIZONS

From: Dinner on Mars

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Chapter 3 explores the possibilities of nanotechnology. Discussing the potential of biotechnology experiments, crops, algae, bacteria, fertilizers, medicines, and the creation of a new and unique … ; 9 $0.90 Add
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Enough Already

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

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This chapter explores the disconnect between the reality of the environmental crisis, and the rhetoric of events such as Earth Day, which typically focuses on individual actions rather than … 11 $1.10 Add
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Mass Movements: Our Only Hope

From: Future on Fire

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Chapter 3 examines how mass movements, the actions of millions of everyday people have played a role in changing our society for the better and can become the method to bring real change and … 22 $2.20 Add
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Neoliberalism and the World-Saving Market

PART 2: The System-Preserving Frameworks

From: Worlds at Stake

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Chapter 4 reflects on the current neoliberal system and its primarily market-oriented solutions to tackle climate change. 22 $2.20 Add
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Placemaking for Community

From: Common Threads

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A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … 32 $3.20 Add
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Scene 2

Tara

From: What You Won’t Do For Love

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Scene 2 focuses on Tara and her decades-spanning relationship and work with her husband, David Suzuki. It discusses immigration, World War II, discrimination, marriage and married life, activism, … ; ; ; 13 $1.30 Add