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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Of Systems and Process From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View	We want to teach children not only how to use technologies, but how to choose technologies, and how to make them. We also want to teach them the caveats including biological hijacking and …	Mari K Swingle	24	2019	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Offering and Tending to the Land From: The Story is in Our Bones View	This chapter describes the reciprocal relationship Indigenous cultures have traditionally cultivated with the land, presenting such relationships as a model for ecological protection and restoration.	Osprey Orielle Lake	25	2024	$2.50 Add
From On Being a Biophilist An Injection of Nature Relatedness From: Secret Life of Your Microbiome View	We need deep exploration of the tiniest ecosystems in the gut. We need far more detail on the interactions between our nerve cells and the immune system. We are talking about connectivity to life …	Alan C. Logan; Susan L. Prescott	27	2017	$2.70 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Five Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything View	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) …	Richard Heinberg	14	2010	$1.40 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Parrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything View	People who live a civilized life are like birds in a cage. As long as we stay within well-defined social bounds (and assuming we are lucky enough to have been born in a wealthy parasitic society, …	Richard Heinberg	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From On Nature’s Limits and the Human Condition Population, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything View	No steady rate of growth in population or resource consumption is sustainable. During the course of the lecture, he asks, “Well, what can we do about this? What makes the population problem …	Richard Heinberg	12	2010	$1.20 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Tools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything View	In assessing and understanding technology and its effects on people and nature, it is at least as important to pay attention to the energy that drives our tools as to the tools themselves and the …	Richard Heinberg	17	2010	$1.70 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts Fifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything View	There are reasons to think that our current anomalous abundance of inexpensive food may be only temporary; if so, present and future generations may become acquainted with that old, formerly …	Richard Heinberg	20	2010	$2.00 Add
From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts (post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything View	Will industrial production survive in the post-hydrocarbon era? The answer will of course depend on how much energy humans will have at their disposal. The total amount, as well as the per capita …	Richard Heinberg	16	2010	$1.60 Add
From One Planet Ecological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint View	Once we compare demand (footprint) with supply (biocapacity) it becomes clear which countries run ecological deficits. It begs the question – are ecological deficits an economic risk?  Where are …	Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel	25	2019	$2.50 Add
From Oppressors and Victims From: Are We Done Fighting? View	The author explores how narratives of oppressors and victims fit into dynamics of violence. He considers the surprising ways that our narratives which inform how we engage in conflict situations …	Matthew Legge	21	2019	$2.10 Add
From Optimum Power Sustaining Our Power Over Time From: Power View	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 …	Richard Heinberg	51	2021	$5.10 Add
From Origins From: The Memory We Could Be View	To understand how we find ourselves in such a situation of ecological precarity requires delving into the past. But our intents are fraught from the start. Any attempt to retell human history is …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	8	2018	$0.80 Add
From Our Future Our Selves From: i-Minds, 2nd edition View	I want to close this book by coming full circle back to what I feel are our most urgent issues: First and foremost are our collective children; the next generations and how we individually and …	Mari K Swingle	14	2019	$1.40 Add
From Outdoor Risky Play in Nature-based Therapy From: Nature-Based Therapy View	The meaningful integration of environmental conditions and activity choices creates the milieu. Comfort with changing weather conditions, spending time in a forest, and getting dirty, wet, or …	David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper	19	2019	$1.90 Add
From Outdoor Therapies: A Choice of Paths to Follow From: Nature-Based Therapy View	We have combined what we have found works best in our practice, for our clients and contexts, nothing more. As readers, you may take what you need, leave what you don’t, and hopefully are …	David Segal; Kathryn Rose; Nevin Harper	20	2019	$2.00 Add