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Part 2

From: The Winter Market Gardener

Part 2 includes the following chapters: Winter Crop Planning – Vegetables in Winter – Tools for Winter Growing ; 95 $9.50 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Greening the City

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Greening the city refers to strategies and techniques that protect and restore ecology within urban communities. It means a fruit tree-lined street, a creek meandering through an urban … 16 $1.60 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Water and Sewage

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

North America is abundant in lakes and rivers yet, in many regions, water resources are in critical supply. Costs for operating, maintaining and expanding sewage treatment facilities continue to … 14 $1.40 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Waste Reduction and Recycling

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Reuse and reduction offer the greatest opportunities for eliminating pollution and depletion of natural resources, yet they are often perceived to be at odds with economic development. How does a … 13 $1.30 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Energy Efficiency and Renewables

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Atmospheric Change and Air Quality

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Transportation Planning and Traffic Management

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Unsustainable transport systems not only are a major contributor to atmosphere change, but also lead to increasing congestion, longer commuting times, increasing demands for shorter work hours to … 19 $1.90 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Land Use and Urban Form

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Sustainable land use can help invigorate communities, and provide considerable environmental, economic, social, and cultural benefits. Redeveloping and reusing existing buildings and land can … 21 $2.10 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Housing and Community Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Community development requires good urban design to foster connection and neighborliness, and programs, policies, and initiatives to encourage healthy human interaction, including safety, … 14 $1.40 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Part 2: Sustainable Community Building Blocks

Community Economic Development

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Sustainable community economic development (CED) is a feasible, community-based alternative to the economy we are familiar with — an economy focused on growth rather than development, on … 20 $2.00 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 1: Environmental Sustainability (Place)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 1 includes the following chapters: Natural Capital (Land, Water, Air, Waste, Energy) – Built Capital (Buildings, Landscapes, Travelways) ; ; 67 $6.70 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 2: Economic Sustainability (Prosperity)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 2 includes the following chapters: Organizational Capital (Public, Nonprofit, Business, Civic) – Political Capital (Authority, Influence, Empowerment) – Financial … ; ; 68 $6.80 Add
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Part 2: Sustainable Community Development

Part 2 Section 3: Social Sustainability (People)

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 2 Section 3 includes the following chapters: Cultural Capital (Self-Efficacy, Heritage, Creative Arts) – Human Capital (Agency, Potential, Well-Being) – Relational Capital … ; ; 55 $5.50 Add
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Part 3

Caring For the Earth

From: Human Permaculture

Biodiversity, the Key to Balance – Water Is Life – Soil, Too, Is Life – Forest: Bridge between Land and Sky ; 44 $4.40 Add
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Part 3

Part 3

From: The Winter Market Gardener

Part 3 includes the following chapters: Tending to Winter Crops – Fall Harvests for Cold Storage – Growing and Selling Vegetables Year-Round – Conclusion ; 70 $7.00 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Governing Sustainable Communities

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

This chapter is about governing sustainable communities, and explores both governance and government in this context. In particular, it focuses on public participation, decision-making, the role … 17 $1.70 Add