Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already...
Sustainable development
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Author:Edwards, Andres R.Summary: -
Author:Greer, John MichaelSummary:Our destructive obsession with money and economic growth has driven us to the brink of disaster. This book exposes the flaws in conventional economic theory and shows how through public policy initiatives and personal choices the...
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Author:Conaty, Pat, Lewis, MikeSummary:We find ourselves between a rock and a hot place—compelled by the intertwined forces of peak oil and climate change to reinvent our economic life at a much more local and regional scale. The Resilience Imperative argues for a major SEE...
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Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:A hopeful, inspiring, and honest take on the environment
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges — climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we...
- Author:Boyd, David R.Summary:
Yes, the world faces substantial environmental challenges -- climate change, pollution, and extinction. But the surprisingly good news is that we have solutions to these problems. In the past fifty years, a remarkable number of...
- Author:Black, MaggieSummary:
Overseas aid and international development are catch-all terms that cover a multitude of activities - and abuses. Building dams in India, planting trees in Burkina Faso, and rescuing street children in Brazil are images of development...
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Author:Ellwood, WayneSummary:The world's addiction to economic growth continues with barely any recognition that this is a problem. Indeed, in a Western world currently dominated by austerity measures and ducking in and out of recession, growth is seen even by...
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Smart sustainability strategies and how they can benefit the bottom line.
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Author:Summary:This book reveals how ordinary people at every level are transforming their businesses and communities. By working collaboratively across boundaries, they are exploring and putting into place unprecedented solutions that move beyond...
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Author:Robaert, Karl-HenrikSummary:Few organizations have been as influential as The Natural Step in empowering and inspiring people to design a more sustainable world. In The Natural Step Story, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robert describes first hand the evolution of the Natural...
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Author:Rist, GilbertSummary:This book provides a complete and powerful overview of what the idea of development has meant. Rist traces it from its origins in the Western view of history, through the early stages of the world system, the rise of U.S. hegemony, the...
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Author:Turner, ChrisSummary: -
Author:Rubin, JeffSummary:Economist and resource analyst Jeff Rubin is certain that the world's governments are getting it wrong. Instead of moving us toward economic recovery, measures being taken around the globe right now are digging us into a deeper hole....
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- Author:MacKinnon, J. B.Summary:
In a brilliant work of imaginative nonfiction, prize-winning author J.B. MacKinnon asks, what would happen - to our economy, our ecology, our products, ourselves - if we stopped consuming so much? Is that alternative world one we might...
- Author:Lefèvre, ThierrySummary:
S'il est vrai que, au fil des décennies, les pays riches ont largement profité de la croissance économique, nous constatons que la logique de développement dominante constitue maintenant une menace pour notre civilisation. Au-delà de l'...
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Regional planning is imperative if North America has any hope of retaining continental biodiversity and environmentally, socially, and economically sustainable development.Protected Areas and the Regional Planning Imperative in North...
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Author:Mason, PaulSummary:Over the past two centuries, capitalism has undergone profound changes from which it has always emerged transformed and strengthened. Paul Mason's Postcapitalism argues that we are on the brink of a change so big that this time...
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Author:Summary:In the 20th century, cheap and abundant energy brought previously unimaginable advances in health, wealth, and technology, and fed an explosion in population and consumption. But this growth came at an incredible cost. Climate change,...
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Author:Mills, StephanieSummary:Bigger has not turned out better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward looks a lot...
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