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Connections Between Nature and Healing

Connections Between Nature and Healing

From: Field Excercises

Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading explores the ways … 25 $2.50 Add
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Connections between Positive Psychology and the Happiness Movement

Connections between Positive Psychology and the Happiness Movement

From: The Happiness Policy Handbook

The Positive Psychology Movement – Happiness Determinants – Workplace Happiness ; ; 5 $0.50 Add
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Conscious Closing: Optimizing the Learning

Conscious Closing: Optimizing the Learning

From: Catch the Fire

Readings in section 2 of this title provides a guide for structuring community programs for success and how to integrate the arts into these programs. This reading provides examples of effective … ; 13 $1.30 Add
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Consumer Food Co-ops Today

Consumer Food Co-ops Today

From: Grocery Story

The many facets and community-building features of consumer food co-ops today, from continuing and children’s education to community giving and non-profit arms are described. Also described … 28 $2.80 Add
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Convivial Banking Innovations: Seeds for Transition

Convivial Banking Innovations: Seeds for Transition

From: Resilience Imperative

Before the rapid globalization spurred by deregulation, community residents and local businesses in the commercial strips of towns and cities had a long-term relationship with the local … ; 30 $3.00 Add
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Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions

Cooling and Warming from Volcanic Eruptions

From: A Brief History of the Earth's Climate

This chapter is about why we have volcanic eruptions, how they differ in style and in size and why that’s important, and how they affect the Earth’s climate both on a short time … 22 $2.20 Add
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Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined
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Corporate "Citizenship" Reimagined

From: We're all Climate Hypocrites Now

In this chapter, the author explores the recent rise of Certified B Corporations, which are governed by a set of criteria that includes waste management practices, energy consumption, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Corporate Transformation

Corporate Transformation

From: A Finer Future

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. ; ; ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

Counting Carbon: What We Know and How We Know It

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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 … ; ; 15 $1.50 Add
Cracking the Boy Code

Cracking the Boy Code

How to Understand and Talk with Boys

All too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their … 163 View
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Creative Facilitation Checklist

Creative Facilitation Checklist

From: Catch the Fire

Readings in section 4 of this titles provide additional tips on facilitation in community activities, with a particular emphasis on engaging with diverse and multigenerational groups. ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Critical Science and Social Responsibility

Critical Science and Social Responsibility

From: Techno-Fix

Critical Science and Social Responsibility outlines ways to increase the awareness of scientists and engineers regarding their social responsibilities as well as ways to transform current science … ; 31 $3.10 Add
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Croplands, Forests, and Oceans: How Much Biocapacity Do We Have?

Croplands, Forests, and Oceans: How Much Biocapacity Do We Have?

From: Ecological Footprint

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. ; 22 $2.20 Add
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Crossing a Threshold

Crossing a Threshold

From: Reclaiming the Commons for the Common Good

The author’s trip to Scotland, to her family’s ancestral roots in Tulliro. 4 $0.40 Add
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CSA

CSA

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 … 5 $0.50 Add
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Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

Cultivating Food Systems for a Changing Climate

From: Resilient Agriculture

The final chapter of the book looks beyond the farm and assesses ways for the entire food production system – from farm to table – to become more resilient. Everything from … 34 $3.40 Add