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Title & Subtitle | Abstract | Contributors | Pages | Year | Purchase |
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From The Perils of Anger Mountain |
We react instinctively to a perceived attack with a fight, flight, or freeze response. A fight response places us squarely on the drama triangle of confrontation as either a hero or a villain. A … | Gary Harper | 14 | 2004 | $1.40 Add |
From NEW! The Qualities and Behaviours of Resilient SystemsPART 2 |
This chapter explores the qualities and behaviours of resilient systems, which come in different shapes, kinds, and sizes. The author explores qualities that cultivate resilience such as … | Laura Lengnick | 24 | 2022 | $2.40 Add |
From The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making From: The Power Manual |
The Social Aspects of Choice, focuses on how choice is informed by one’s environment and how one participates in collective choice. I highlight what I found most important about Carole … | Cyndi Suarez | 10 | 2018 | $1.00 Add |
From The Toolbox: Facilitating the ProcessFacilitating the Process From: Mediator's Handbook |
Facilitating the process. Impartial facilitation. Structuring the session. Structuring the discussion. When you can be directive. When to consult. Keeping on track. Crafting questions -> … | Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer | 26 | 2012 | $2.60 Add |
From The Tragedy of the Commons Revisted |
Exploring the dissolution of communal farms in Scotland and the pitfalls of rigid British feudal farmlands. | Heather Menzies | 8 | 2014 | $0.80 Add |
From To Your Health: The Health Benefits and Impacts of Natural Building Materials |
This chapter considers the human health benefits derived from using natural building materials in construction. The aim here is to provide a current overview of the development, understanding, … | Andrew Thomson; Pete Walker | 11 | 2017 | $1.10 Add |
From Towards Financial Sustainability |
If you took a survey of social entrepreneurs, particularly those in the startup phase, and asked them about their top challenges, you’d no doubt hear one constant refrain: funding. That is … | Elisa Birnbaum | 16 | 2018 | $1.60 Add |
From Unleashing PhilanthropyFrom: Clean Money Revolution |
Giving away money is an under-realized subset of clean money. The world needs to unleash the charitable sector in solving big problems. Foundations are monumentally important in this. They hold … | Joel Solomon; Tyee Bridge | 18 | 2017 | $1.80 Add |
From Weapons of Mass Instruction |
The trapped flea strategy; ugliness; the horse-in-box effect; the artificial extension of childhood; misdirection; the cauldron of broken time: these and more are some deadly Weapons of Mass … | John Taylor Gatto | 46 | 2010 | $4.60 Add |
From What is the Work that Reconnects?From: Coming Back to Life |
As we stand now at the brink of destroying our planet as a home for conscious life, contemporary science and ancient spiritual traditions bring us insights into the basic miracle of our … | Joanna Macy; Molly Young Brown | 11 | 2014 | $1.10 Add |
From Winners and LosersStrategies for Countries to Consider From: Ecological Footprint |
If we take resource security seriously, how does it shift development strategies? How will our ability to succeed shift in a world of climate change and resource constraints? | Bert Beyers; Mathis Wackernagel | 17 | 2019 | $1.70 Add |
From "Each Year I Feel Better" – Christopher Brown and Growing VeteransFrom: Field Excercises |
Readings in this book consist of case studies of programs that use outdoor activities such as farming and gardening to help veterans cope with PTSD and disability. This reading recalls the … | Stephanie Westlund | 13 | 2014 | $1.30 Add |
From NEW! 7. The Energy Turnaround“Electrifying Everything” From: Earth for All |
Chapter 7 focuses on energy consumption and a clean energy future, discussing clean power technologies, fairness of pushing expensive clean energy, fossil fuel industry’s power, the … | Jørgen Randers; Jayati Ghosh; Johan Rockström; Owen Gaffney; Per Espen Stoknes; Sandrine Dixson-Declève | 18 | 2022 | $1.80 Add |
From A Plague of Humans |
In this chapter Earle turns to the role of humanity in changing our planet’s climate. Important forces include agriculture, fossil fuel consumption, and total population. | Steven Earle | 14 | 2021 | $1.40 Add |
From Action Plan: Community Engagement |
Engaging Through Social Media – Convening a Happiness Council – Global Councils – Local Councils – Community Forums – Online Portals – Town Hall Meetings … | Jean Crowder; Laura Musikanski; Rhonda Phillips | 11 | 2019 | $1.10 Add |
From AfterwordFrom: Uprooting Racism |
I write about neoliberalism, the current stage of global capitalism. This is a system of power, wealth, and control by ruling elites currently centered in the US and Europe; neoliberals use … | Paul Kivel | 3 | 2017 | $0.30 Add |