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From  Not One, But AllFrom: The Biology of Wonder |
This chapter examines the connections between microbial ecosystems in the ocean and human symbiosis with microbes. | Andreas Weber | 20 | 2016 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Not Too PrettyFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
The detective search begins for chemicals linked to birth defects in shampoo, deodorant, fragrance and hair gel. | Stacy Malkan | 22 | 2007 | $2.20 Add |
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From  NotesFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
Notes | David Bollier | 32 | 2019 | $3.20 Add |
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From  NotesFrom: Are We Done Fighting? |
Notes on each chapter | Matthew Legge | 43 | 2019 | $4.30 Add |
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From  Of Games and GamingFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
I am going to go a bit deeper exploring the specifics of the supposed benefits of gaming as they relate to learning. Within this I’m going to put a microscope over some of the gaming … | Mari K Swingle | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
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From Of Systems and ProcessFrom: i-Minds, 2nd edition |
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 |
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From  NEW! Offering and Tending to the Land |
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 |
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From  On Being a BiophilistAn Injection of Nature Relatedness |
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 |
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From  On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionFive Axioms of Sustainability From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionParrots and Peoples From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Nature’s Limits and the Human ConditionPopulation, Resources, and Human Idealism From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsTools with a Life of Their Own From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the ArtsFifty Million Farmers From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From On Technology, Agriculture, and the Arts(post-) Hydrocarbon Aesthetics From: Peak Everything |
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 |
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From  One PlanetEcological Limits and Then What? From: Ecological Footprint |
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 |
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From Oppressors and VictimsFrom: Are We Done Fighting? |
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 |
