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Relationalize Property

Relationalize Property

From: Free, Fair and Alive

Chapter eight explores pathways to relationalize property, beginning with a case study of a food cooperative store. They then make the case for relationalizing property. There are case studies … 45 $4.50 Add
Renewal
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Renewal

How Nature Awakens Our Creativity Compassion and Joy

Why spend countless hours indoors in front of screens when being in nature feels so good? In learning why and how to nurture our emotional connection with nature, we can also regenerate the … 210 View
Resilience Imperative

Resilience Imperative

Cooperative Transitions to a Steady-state Economy

We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place compelled by the intertwining forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The … ; 400 View
Resilient Agriculture

Resilient Agriculture

Cultivating Food Systems for A Changing Climate

Climate change presents an unprecedented challenge to the productivity and profitability of agriculture in North America. More variable weather, drought and flooding create the most obvious … 370 View
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Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change
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Resilient Agriculture: New Tools for Shaping Change

PART 2

From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition

This chapter summarizes the key innovations and practices that the farmers featured in the book have implemented to deal with climate change and describes the main attributes of a sustainable … 24 $2.40 Add
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Resisting Least Resistance

Resisting Least Resistance

From: Changing Tides

This chapter follows Frid’s own personal evolution in dealing with Inside Knowledge—the heaviness of knowing, in intimate detail, the damage caused by human actions on the planet. In … 12 $1.20 Add
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Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

Responding to Water Crises: A Tale of Four Cities

From: Dry Run

In chapter 3, we looked at contemporary water crises in Australia, Atlanta and San Diego. We’ll learn what their successes can teach us about how to create effective water conservation … 21 $2.10 Add
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Retailer Market Power

Retailer Market Power

From: Grocery Story

This chapter describes retailer market power– current and historical– in the United States, as well as efforts to contain this power. The 1980s and the US Regan administration’s … 14 $1.40 Add
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Rethinking Property

Rethinking Property

From: Free, Fair and Alive

The seventh chapter examines the relationship between property law and ideas of ownership and commons, and finds them to be largely incompatible. The authors propose ways to rethink property and … 29 $2.90 Add
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Reweaving Our Economies Close to Home

Reweaving Our Economies Close to Home

From: Resilience Imperative

Despite 60 years of global economic expansion, incomes over the last 30 years have stagnated. People who were once beneficiaries of spiralling growth are no longer participants. The migration of … ; 30 $3.00 Add
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Rights of Nature
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Rights of Nature

A Systemic Solution

From: The Story is in Our Bones

In this chapter, Lake describes the Rights of Nature movement, presenting it as the most effective way to address dysfunctional environmental, legal, colonial, and economic frameworks. 36 $3.60 Add
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Rise of the Grocery Giants

Rise of the Grocery Giants

From: Grocery Story

This chapter begins the description of the actions and tactics of "big food". The history of the A&P grocery retalier is described, as well as Piggly Wiggly, the first self-service … 15 $1.50 Add
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Rites of Passage

Rites of Passage

Self Formation in Liminal Space

From: The Power Manual

Rites of Passage, highlights Victor Turner’s thinking on liminality, the space of transformation, the ritual of transitioning from one state to another. One leaves behind previous … 8 $0.80 Add
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Rooted in Rights

Rooted in Rights

From: The Color of Food

Portrait 1: Land is Freedom. Daniel Whitaker, Tillery, North Carolina Portrait 2: Forced Migration. Alma Maquitico, The Border Agricultural Workers Project Portrait 3: Lifeblood of the Land. … 35 $3.50 Add