Green Collar Jobs: Working in the New Northwest
?This Saturday morning, my work is in the unpaid economy, replacing some broken molding in my family?s run-down Seattle house. … Continue reading Green Collar Jobs: Working in the New Northwest
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The Trade-Off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment
Provides an in-depth examination of the deepseated, American belief in a wide-spread jobs-environment trade-off. Considers the roots and staying power … Continue reading The Trade-Off Myth: Fact and Fiction about Jobs and the Environment
Tools for Environmental Management – A Practical Introduction and Guide
Dixon Thompson has presented a timely and thoughtful guide to environmental management. Tools for Environmental Management is comprehensive and coherent. … Continue reading Tools for Environmental Management – A Practical Introduction and Guide
Closing the Gap: Information, participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment
The report includes analysis of national systems for public participation in nine countries – Chile, Hungary, Indonesia, India, Mexico, Thailand, … Continue reading Closing the Gap: Information, participation, and justice in decision-making for the environment
Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications
An overview of environmental topics as applied to problems of development, land use, and various environmental problems of the landscape. … Continue reading Landscape Planning: Environmental Applications
No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies
In No Logo, Klein patiently demonstrates, step by step, how brands have become ubiquitous, not just in media and on the street but increasingly in the schools as well.
Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life
Personal in its style yet radical in its vision, Radical Ecopsychology offers an original introduction to ecopsychology-an emerging field that … Continue reading Radical Ecopsychology: Psychology in the Service of Life
The Art of Natural Building – Design, Construction, Resources
From straw bale and cob to recycled concrete and salvaged materials, this anthology of articles from leaders in the field focuses on both the practical and the esthetic concerns of ecological building designs and techniques. Above all, this empowering guide demonstrates that anyone can design and build a home from natural materials that is beautiful, low-cost, and environmentally-sensible.
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Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies
Classics in Environmental Studies provides the reader with a selection of the core texts, typically 10 pages, of the most … Continue reading Classics in Environmental Studies: An Overview of Classic Texts in Environmental Studies
When Corporations Rule the World
In The New Realities (1989), Peter Drucker issued the early warning that the advent of the transnational company heralded a structural change in the world economy. Now Korten sounds loud the alarm. He blames the corporate quest for short-term financial gain for creating a “market tyranny that is extending its reach across the planet like a cancer, colonizing ever more of the planet’s living spaces, destroying livelihoods, displacing people, rendering democratic institutions impotent, and feeding on life.”
Global Spin: The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism
How are large corporations shirking their environmental responsibilities? What methods are they adopting to shift public and governmental focus from … Continue reading Global Spin: The Corporate Assault On Environmentalism
Conservation Directory 2005-2006: The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations – National Wildlife Federation
The 2005 edition of the National Wildlife Federation Conservation Directory is the most comprehensive listing of conservation and environmental organizations … Continue reading Conservation Directory 2005-2006: The Guide to Worldwide Environmental Organizations – National Wildlife Federation