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Title & Subtitle	Abstract	Contributors	Pages	Year	Purchase
From Tricks of the Trade From: Not Just a Pretty Face View	The beauty industry gears up for a backlash.	Stacy Malkan	10	2007	$1.00 Add
From Triumph of the Sun The Mother of All Disruptions From: A Finer Future View	This chapter explores the disruptive potential of solar power to completely transform the way that we produce and use electricity as a society.	Anders Wijkman; John Fullerton; L. Hunter Lovins; Stewart Wallis	47	2018	$4.70 Add
From Unarmed Civilian Protection From: Are We Done Fighting? View	This chapter considers research about how unarmed civilians can be helpful in a war situation, work that is rooted in relationship-building. The chapter concludes with a case study and a …	Matthew Legge	11	2019	$1.10 Add
From Understand Emissions: Where, Who, What, When and How From: The Memory We Could Be View	Beyond the rich debates surrounding complexity in climate science, when it comes to emissions, there are five major discussions: where, who, what, when and how? Where are emissions coming from? …	Daniel Macmillen Voskoboynik	21	2018	$2.10 Add
From NEW! Understanding Adaptive Capacity PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View	This chapter explores the concept of adaptive capacity: the ability of a farm to manage human, social, natural, physical, and financial resources to adapt to changes in its environment. The …	Laura Lengnick	14	2022	$1.40 Add
From Understanding Exposure From: Resilient Agriculture View Collection: Water and Climate Change: Impacts on Canada and the World	This chapter explores the ways that climate change impacts different regions and different crops, and outlines the effects that environmental changes will have on the highly delicate balance that …	Laura Lengnick	24	2015	$2.40 Add
From NEW! Understanding Exposure PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View	This chapter talks about exposure and dealing with climate change, offering some climate change adaptation concepts that help to clarify options that reduce climate risk and cultivate the climate …	Laura Lengnick	16	2022	$1.60 Add
From Understanding Human Behavior From: Freedom To Learn View	Human behavior is driven by two types of needs: survival and psychological. First we will describe survival needs and the importance, for teachers, of one in particular. These include food, …	Art Willans; Cari Williams	18	2018	$1.80 Add
From Understanding Sensitivity From: Resilient Agriculture View	This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be …	Laura Lengnick	30	2015	$3.00 Add
From NEW! Understanding Sensitivity PART 1 From: Resilient Agriculture, 2nd Edition View	This chapter explores the concept of sensitivity as it relates to agriculture. Sensitivity is the degree to which agricultural systems are effected by changes in their environment. Crops can be …	Laura Lengnick	13	2022	$1.30 Add
From NEW! Undestanding Past Climates From: Runaway Climate View	Understanding Past Climates: The ocean sediment record (extracting information from ocean sediment cores), isotope records (documenting temperature changes and tracing carbon sources), …	Steven Earle	16	2024	$1.60 Add
From Uniting the "I" and the "We" Affordable Housing in Perpetuity From: Resilience Imperative View	The unprecedented financial, economic, and social fallout from the credit crunch presents governments with a structural set of problems when it comes to housing. A steep decline in prices in many …	Michael Lewis; Pat Conaty	28	2012	$2.80 Add
From Unleashing Philanthropy From: Clean Money Revolution View	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 Unmasked From: Not Just a Pretty Face View	Peek behind the scenes of Big Beauty, as the author goes undercover to the largest cosmetics industry conference of the year.	Stacy Malkan	14	2007	$1.40 Add
From Unsustainable From: Fixing Fashion View	Unsustainable begins with a case study of water pollution from a textile mill in China, owned by a Hong Kong company. Then it considers sustainable trade and programs like the Better Cotton …	Michael Lavergne	32	2015	$3.20 Add
From Urban Water Crises From: Dry Run View	Urban water crises are not just a thing of the future, they are happening all around us as long-term reductions in rainfall and runoff tie in with short-term multiyear droughts. In this chapter, …	Jerry Yudelson	21	2010	$2.10 Add