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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  Part 2: Sustainable Community Building BlocksAtmospheric Change and Air Quality |
Although atmospheric change is a complex technical issue, only a few basic concepts are required to comprehend its implications and design community strategies to reduce its threat. This chapter … | Marc Roseland | 11 | 2012 | $1.10 Add |
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From  Power-overFrom: Are We Done Fighting? |
This chapter starts with a look at the assumed relationship between power and violence, and introduces and dissects a concept called power-over. Power-over is rooted in violence or punishment, … | Matthew Legge | 12 | 2019 | $1.20 Add |
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From  NEW! Principle F – Delegate and EmpowerFrom: Building Community |
Devolution and Empowerment – Research Corner – Case Study: Community-Led Sustainable Development in Northern Ghana – Case Study: Climate Change and the Minnehaha Creek … | James S. Gruber | 20 | 2020 | $2.00 Add |
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From  Provisioning Through CommonsFrom: Free, Fair and Alive |
This chapter is about the ten key patterns of production or provisioning in the Triad framework of the commons. They also explain the underlying goals of provisioning in a commons-oriented world … | David Bollier | 35 | 2019 | $3.50 Add |
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From  Redefining FashionFrom: Fixing Fashion |
The final chapter presents a wide array of view points on how to change the fashion industry for the better, drawing on quotes and interviews with people involved, such as educators, financial … | Michael Lavergne | 50 | 2015 | $5.00 Add |
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From  S2: The Structure Dimension of QuestionsFrom: The Mediator's Toolkit |
The S2: Structure Questions incorporate the ways in which a question can be structured: either as a closed question or as an open question. Ask a closed question if you are looking for a Yes or a … | Gerry O'Sullivan | 5 | 2018 | $0.50 Add |
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From  NEW! Section V: Sustaining Yourself While Maintaining Your CommitmentFrom: Inside Out |
Section V contains the chapter 21. Radical Self-Care. Topics discussed include burnout and fatigue, othering and the “us versus them” mentality, the preservation of institutional and … | Caprice D. Hollins | 8 | 2022 | $0.80 Add |
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From  Step 3: Developing Strategies – ForgettingPrompts: Rembering to Act |
Numerous actions that promote sustainability are susceptible to the most human of traits: forgetting. Fortunately, “prompts” are effective in reminding people to engage in sustainable … | Doug McKenzie-Mohr | 12 | 2011 | $0.12 Add |
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From  NEW! Swimming Upstream |
This chapter discusses the benefits of personal change, how personal decisions can have ripple effects on other people, and how activists need to meet people where they are in order to influence … | Sami Grover | 16 | 2021 | $1.60 Add |
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From  Technological Optimism and Belief in ProgressFrom: Techno-Fix |
Technological Optimism and Belief in Progress postulates that belief in progress exhibits characteristics similar to those of religious faith and that most techno-optimism is based on ignorance, … | Joyce Huesemann; Michael Huesemann | 33 | 2011 | $3.30 Add |
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From  The Daughters of KaliFrom: Humanizing the Economy |
Sonagchi The Stories A Terrible Reflection | John Restakis | 28 | 2010 | $2.80 Add |
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From  The Empire of Private PropertyFrom: Think Like a Commoner |
Formal laws may declare what property rights people may have in given circumstances, our social norms are at least as important a force — and those are highly adaptable. How we define … | David Bollier | 15 | 2014 | $1.50 Add |
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From  The Future of PowerLearning to Live Happily Within Limits From: Power |
In the concluding chapter, Heinberg explores the territory between human self-annihilation and sufficient self-restraint. | Richard Heinberg | 63 | 2021 | $6.30 Add |
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From  The Great BurningFrom: The Memory We Could Be |
Humans have caused enough upheaval to heat the entire world — its seas and its skies — by over an entire degree Celsius. Just that one degree of temperature has been enough to trigger … | Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik | 13 | 2018 | $1.30 Add |
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From  The Indigenous Power CenterFrom: Indigenomics |
Topics discussed in this chapter include the Indigenous push/pull dynamic and the 7 Rs of the Indigenomics power center. | Carol Anne Hilton | 12 | 2021 | $1.20 Add |
