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From ![]() PinkwashingFrom: Not Just a Pretty Face |
A closer look at pink-ribbon products and what the leading cosmetics companies don’t tell you about breast cancer prevention. | Stacy Malkan | 15 | 2007 | $1.50 Add |
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From ![]() Placemaking for CommunityFrom: Common Threads |
A “working landscape” in the city can be planned for use by the people who live there. Newly articulated land use options coupled with accessing the green waste from both invasive … | Sharon Kallis | 32 | 2014 | $3.20 Add |
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From ![]() Planning an Escape from OvershootFrom: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the author details practical ways to escape from overshoot. | Peter Victor A. | 22 | 2023 | $2.20 Add |
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From ![]() NEW! Planning Your New VentureFrom: The Farmer's Office |
This chapter covers how to begin planning your farming venture. | Julia Shanks | 5 | 2024 | $0.50 Add |
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From ![]() Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions |
In this chapter the authors explore some of contradictions in plastic, and explain and evaluate the potential paths and barriers to how plastic might actually redeem itself and prove that it has … | Mikhail Davis; Wes Sullens; Wil Srubar | 16 | 2017 | $1.60 Add |
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From ![]() Post Growth PossibilitiesFrom: Escape from Overshoot |
In this chapter the auhor describes the concept of a "post growth era" as a potential solution to overshoot. | Peter Victor A. | 36 | 2023 | $3.60 Add |
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From ![]() Power in NatureFrom Mitochondria to Emotion and Deception From: Power |
In this chapter, the author takes a look at some of the powers that arose in living things long before humans emerged. | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From ![]() Power in the AnthropoceneThe Wonderful World of Fossil Fuels From: Power |
This chapter details forms of fossil fuel power such as coal, oil, and gas. Heinberg suggests that through the development and exercise of these fossil fuel powers, we have changed not only the … | Richard Heinberg | 46 | 2021 | $4.60 Add |
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From ![]() Power in the HoloceneThe Rise of Social Inequality From: Power |
In this chapter, Heinberg explores physical as well as social power, as well as the ways in which humans have obtained power over each other, including warfare, predation, the wealth pump, state … | Richard Heinberg | 67 | 2021 | $6.70 Add |
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From ![]() Power in the PleistoceneOn Spears, Fires, Furs, Words, and Flutes - And Why Men Are Such Power-Hogs From: Power |
This chapter describes prehistoric forms of human power, including stone tools, fire, animal skins, and language. | Richard Heinberg | 43 | 2021 | $4.30 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 ![]() Power-with and Power-from-withinFrom: Are We Done Fighting? |
The author describes characteristics of power-with, and offers tips on how it can be recognized and developed in different contexts. The chapter concludes with the introduction of a third type of … | Matthew Legge | 14 | 2019 | $1.40 Add |
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From ![]() Powerful Beginnings: Building a CommunityFrom: Catch the Fire |
Readings in section 2 of this title provides a guide for structuring community programs for success and how to integrate the arts into these programs. This reading explores the initial stages of … | Charlie Murphy; Peggy Taylor | 26 | 2014 | $2.60 Add |
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From ![]() Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power From: The Power Manual |
Powerless and Powerful Identities, explores the space between Gramsci’s hegemony, the idea that the very acceptance of power as dominance renders one powerless, and the philosophy of … | Cyndi Suarez | 11 | 2018 | $1.10 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceFrom: Mediator's Handbook |
The handbook focusses on round-the-table mediations with up to eight participants, where the mediators primarily faciliate discussions and decisions to meet particpants’ goals for the … | Caroline C. Packard; Eileen Stief; Jennifer E. Beer | 2 | 2012 | $0.20 Add |
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From ![]() PrefaceTeaching Peace From: Educating for Action |
In an age of endless war, when history is in perpetual mourning, groaning under the burden of class oppression, peace is a necessary practice. In a world redolent of George Orwell’s novel … | Peter McLaren | 7 | 2014 | $0.70 Add |

















