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From  To Choose LifeFrom: Coming Back to Life |
Our political economy requires ever-increasing extraction and consumption of resources. To the Industrial Growth Society, the Earthi s supply house and sewer. The planet’s body is not only … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 19 | 2014 | $1.90 Add |
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From  Toward a Sustainable AgricultureFrom: Emergent Agriculture |
Sustainability is a set of principles that focus on three fundamental elements of durable societies. They are: environmental stewardship, economic viability, and ethical behavior. These elements, … | Gary S. Kleppel | 6 | 2014 | $0.60 Add |
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From  NEW! Understanding Adaptive CapacityPART 1 |
This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The … | Laura Lengnick | 14 | 2022 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Urban Water ManagementFrom: Dry Run |
What are the opportunities for urban water management in the coming decade, the second of this century? Where should cities be looking for means and methods to meet their water supply … | Jerry Yudelson | 22 | 2010 | $2.20 Add |
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From  VegetablesFrom: Resilient Agriculture |
This chapter features case studies of vegetable farmers in different regions and describes the methods they use to adapt to the changing climate and promote sustainability on their own farms. … | Laura Lengnick | 38 | 2015 | $3.80 Add |
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From  Welcome to Turm-Oil Inc. |
As a company, Turm-Oil Inc. is facing the typical challenges of the new millennium: downsizing, greater reliance on technology, increased competition, and demanding customers. Such changes lead … | Gary Harper | 11 | 2004 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Why Impermanence MattersFrom: Common Threads |
Most creative projects made with green waste and natural materials are meant to have a short life-span and then return to the earth. This goes against everything a Western European sensibility … | Sharon Kallis | 14 | 2014 | $1.40 Add |
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From  Winter: The Great Exhale |
As winter winds blast across brown or white fields and the temperature dips, the land seems to breathe out — cleansing itself of the remnants of last summer’s growth. We hear the … | Drew Monkman; Jacob Rodenburg | 59 | 2016 | $5.90 Add |
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From  World InscapeFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter discusses how emotions are embodied, and how the inward feelings of organisms are accessible through their bodily presence. | Andreas Weber | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
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From  NEW! 4. The Inequality Turnaround“Sharing the Dividends” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 4 explores the challenges of the growing inequality across the globe. Topics discussing include economic inequality, privatization, the creation of progressive taxation for … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
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From Affective NeuroscienceFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter probes the links between subjective experience, consciousness, and the body. | Andreas Weber | 30 | 2016 | $3.00 Add |
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From  Beauty Myth BustersFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
From the “whitening trend” in Asia to the airbrushed models in the ads, the beauty industry sells toxic dreams around the world. | Stacy Malkan | 12 | 2007 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Big Oil Wants to Talk About Your Carbon Footprint |
This chapter details the efforts of oil companies to cover up their own climate research, as well as how we can pressure these companies into doing more to protect the environment and move away … | Sami Grover | 17 | 2021 | $1.70 Add |
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From  Building Successful GroupsFrom: Freedom To Learn |
An essential element of teaching is first to get appropriate conduct and learning-related behaviors to occur. Only then can teachers strengthen those behaviors with the use of social approval. … | Art Willans; Cari Williams | 31 | 2018 | $3.10 Add |
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From  CareersFrom: Engage, Connect, Protect |
The author delves into how her organization, Greening Youth Foundation, has created career opportunities for diverse youth, especially in the US National Park Service and other federal agencies, … | Angelou Ezeilo | 15 | 2019 | $1.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Chapter 5Nature’s Intelligence From: Renewal |
This chapter explores the concept of intelligence and the ways in which the natural world displays a systemic ability to solve problems and overcome obstacles. | Andres R. Edwards | 16 | 2020 | $1.60 Add |
