2012

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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Greening the City

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … 16 $1.60 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Water and Sewage

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Waste Reduction and Recycling

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Reuse and reduction offer the greatest opportunities for eliminating pollution and depletion of natural resources, yet they are often perceived to be at odds with economic development. How does a … 13 $1.30 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Canadians and Americans consume more energy per capita than any other nation. Environmental impacts of our consumptive lifestyles include ozone layer depletion, acid rain, smog, potential climate … 16 $1.60 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Atmospheric Change and Air Quality

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter … 11 $1.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … 19 $1.90 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Land Use and Urban Form

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can … 21 $2.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Housing and Community Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Community Economic Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on … 20 $2.00 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Governing Sustainable Communities

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role … 17 $1.70 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Tools for Community Sustainability

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Lessons and Challenges

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … 6 $0.60 Add
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Part One: Overview

Part One: Overview

From: Mediator's Handbook

What is mediation? What makes mediation work? What is the mediator’s role? The anatomy of the mediation process. The anatomy of a session. Process-centered mediation. Guilding principles … ; ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

Getting to the Table

From: Mediator's Handbook

Can mediation help this situation? How people find a mediator. Voluntary or mandatory? Initial conversations. Do they want to participate? Defining the scope. Approaching the other parties. … ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

The Mediation Session Part 1: Exploring the Situation

From: Mediator's Handbook

Preparing yourself, co-mediators. Setting up the room. Opening -> Welcome & warm-up, logistics, orientation, participants’ roles and willingness. Listening to each perspective. The … ; ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

The Mediation Session Part 2: Reaching Resolution

From: Mediator's Handbook

Reaching Resolution. Topic List -> why is it crucial, drafting, wording. Midpoint check-in Options -> together come up with ideas, workability, reality testing. Desisions -> workability, … ; ; 24 $2.40 Add