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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Tools for Community Sustainability

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Moving toward sustainable communities is a long-term goal, so it is important that the incremental steps we take in the short-term are leading us in the right direction. This chapter surveys some … 12 $1.20 Add
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Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Part 3: Mobilizing Citizens and Their Governments

Lessons and Challenges

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

There is an emerging recognition that a contemporary view of sustainable development has to blend this basic desire for economic prosperity (or at least survival) with multiple bottom-line … 6 $0.60 Add
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Part 3: Moving the Needle
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Part 3: Moving the Needle

From: Toward Sustainable Communities

Part 3 includes the following chapters: Navigating Community Challenge – A Call to Action ; ; 35 $3.50 Add
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Part 4
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Part 4

Caring For People

From: Human Permaculture

Permacultivating Our Food – Water, a Vital Element – Food from Plants – Food from Animals – Food from the Ocean – Food from Insects – A Design to Feed Your Family ; 81 $8.10 Add
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Part One: Overview

Part One: Overview

From: Mediator's Handbook

What is mediation? What makes mediation work? What is the mediator’s role? The anatomy of the mediation process. The anatomy of a session. Process-centered mediation. Guilding principles … ; ; 11 $1.10 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

Getting to the Table

From: Mediator's Handbook

Can mediation help this situation? How people find a mediator. Voluntary or mandatory? Initial conversations. Do they want to participate? Defining the scope. Approaching the other parties. … ; ; 14 $1.40 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

The Mediation Session Part 1: Exploring the Situation

From: Mediator's Handbook

Preparing yourself, co-mediators. Setting up the room. Opening -> Welcome & warm-up, logistics, orientation, participants’ roles and willingness. Listening to each perspective. The … ; ; 28 $2.80 Add
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Part Two: The Process

Part Two: The Process

The Mediation Session Part 2: Reaching Resolution

From: Mediator's Handbook

Reaching Resolution. Topic List -> why is it crucial, drafting, wording. Midpoint check-in Options -> together come up with ideas, workability, reality testing. Desisions -> workability, … ; ; 24 $2.40 Add
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Patterns of Water Use

Patterns of Water Use

From: Dry Run

In this chapter, we look at where water comes from, how it is allocated among various uses and how much each individual uses. We’ll look briefly at water use in cities, homes and offices, … 13 $1.30 Add
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Peace by the River – Christian McEachern and the Canadian Veteran Adventure Foundation

Peace by the River – Christian McEachern and the Canadian Veteran Adventure Foundation

From: 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 discusses … 14 $1.40 Add
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Peace Education

Peace Education

From: Are We Done Fighting?

This chapter introduces the role of peace education, the various contexts in which it can occur, the techniques that make it effective, and the challenges that arise. There is a long case study … 12 $1.20 Add
Peak Everything

Peak Everything

Waking Up to the Century of Declines

A combination of wry commentary and sober forecasting on subjects as diverse as farming and industrial design, this book describes how to make the transition from The Age of Excess to the Era of … 240 View
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Peer Governance Through Commoning

Peer Governance Through Commoning

From: Free, Fair and Alive

This chapter considers the second aspect of the Triad framework, Peer Governance through Commoning. They name and describe ten dynamics of Peer Governance usually present in effective commons, … 44 $4.40 Add
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Perchance to Scale

Perchance to Scale

From: In The Business of Change

Though many social entrepreneurs are proponents of scale, the goal is a more difficult one for them to achieve than for traditional enterprises. For one thing, balancing the objectives of profit … 16 $1.60 Add
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Perserving for the Long Haul

Perserving for the Long Haul

From: Intrinsic Hope

Perseverance helps to nurture intrinsic hope because it gives us the determination to endure whatever happens. Perseverance persists — day after day, month after month, and year after year. … 15 $1.50 Add
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Personal Well-Being

Personal Well-Being

From: An Economy of Well-Being

* Well-Being is a Choice * Money, Your Life and Happiness 8 $0.80 Add