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Diversity in Agriculture

From: Emergent Agriculture

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 For the farmer, biodiversity is both domestic and wild, and a farm can be a place where biodiversity flourishes or from which it is excluded. The way farmers relate to biodiversity distinguishes … 14 $1.40 Add
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End Overshoot!

Communication Is Key

From: Ecological Footprint

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 Without careful communication, we cannot win the hearts and minds of our audiences. What can we learn from past mistakes? ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Engaged Reflection: Making Sense of it All

From: Catch the Fire

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 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 activities … ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Going International

From: Engage, Connect, Protect

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 This chapter explains how the author met her husband and business partner, as well as the path that led them to their work in green career development, tree planting and carbon off-set work in Africa. 16 $1.60 Add
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Grains

From: Resilient Agriculture

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 This chapter features case studies of grain growers and describes the ways in which they adapt to climate change and promote sustainable growing practices. These include placing a greater … 36 $3.60 Add
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Grant Freedom, Demand Responsibility (Adolescents)

From: Childhood Unplugged

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 In this chapter, Martinko explains her approach to reducing the screen time of adolescents. Martinko discusses communication, independence, smartphone use, family meals, camping, leisure plans, … 18 $1.80 Add
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Human Nature or Human Ignorance?

From: The Memory We Could Be

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 The story of climate change is one of the rise to dominance of a particular human relationship with nature, defined by callousness. Today we are blinded by that relationship, locked in its logic … 37 $3.70 Add
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Indian Act Economics

From: Indigenomics

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 Topics discussed in this chapter include the Indian Act, the perception of the Indian Act and the conditions for an indigenous economic market failure. 14 $1.40 Add
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Japan

From: Humanizing the Economy

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 Product Labeling and Advocacy Workers’ Collective Movement Health and Happiness Elder Care 21 $2.10 Add
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Loving the World

From: Intrinsic Hope

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 When I think about what loving the world means to me, I feel a deep aspiration for the happiness, flourishing, and wellbeing of other people, other species, and the earth. This could be called … 20 $2.00 Add
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Methods

From: Making Shift Happen

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 This chapter focuses on the Method for doing research and provides advice on how to design your research effort. The chapter does this by focusing on how to develop research methods and do … ; ; ; 41 $4.10 Add
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Nature as Co-therapist

From: Nature-Based Therapy

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 Drawing on the work of many talented and creative nature connection facilitators, philosophers, and therapists, this chapter aims to illuminate some of the processes of doing nature-based … ; ; 43 $4.30 Add
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On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition

Five Axioms of Sustainability

From: Peak Everything

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 My aim in this chapter is to explore the history of the terms sustainable and sustainability, and their various published definitions, and then to offer a set of five axioms (self-evident truths) … 14 $1.40 Add
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Optimum Power

Sustaining Our Power Over Time

From: Power

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 This chapter makes the case that we humans are capable of controlling our thirst for power, and we have a long history of doing so. Moreover, that capacity is rooted in similar behavior expressed … 51 $5.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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 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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Peer Governance Through Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

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 This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … 44 $4.40 Add