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Pinkwashing

Pinkwashing

From: 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. 15 $1.50 Add
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Placemaking for Community

Placemaking for Community

From: 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 … 32 $3.20 Add
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Planning an Escape from Overshoot

Planning an Escape from Overshoot

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the author details practical ways to escape from overshoot. 22 $2.20 Add
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Planning Your New Venture
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Planning Your New Venture

From: The Farmer's Office

This chapter covers how to begin planning your farming venture. 5 $0.50 Add
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Plastic: So Great, So Awful - Some New Directions

Plastic: So Great, So Awful – Some New Directions

From: The New Carbon Architecture

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 … ; ; 16 $1.60 Add
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Post Growth Possibilities

Post Growth Possibilities

From: Escape from Overshoot

In this chapter the auhor describes the concept of a "post growth era" as a potential solution to overshoot. 36 $3.60 Add
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Power in Nature

Power in Nature

From 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. 46 $4.60 Add
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Power in the Anthropocene

Power in the Anthropocene

The 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 … 46 $4.60 Add
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Power in the Holocene

Power in the Holocene

The 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 … 67 $6.70 Add
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Power in the Pleistocene

Power in the Pleistocene

On 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. 43 $4.30 Add
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Power-over

Power-over

From: 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, … 12 $1.20 Add
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Power-with and Power-from-within

Power-with and Power-from-within

From: 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 … 14 $1.40 Add
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Powerful Beginnings: Building a Community

Powerful Beginnings: Building a Community

From: 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 … ; 26 $2.60 Add
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Powerless and Powerful Identities

Powerless and Powerful Identities

Hegemony 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 … 11 $1.10 Add
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Preface

Preface

From: 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 … ; ; 2 $0.20 Add
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Preface

Preface

Teaching 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 … 7 $0.70 Add