The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
The Economics of Happiness challenges the gospel of economic growth and the promise of capitalism by presenting a new economic … Continue reading The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth
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Author sees happy ending without humans
Somewhere we got the crazy idea that it was all about us. You can even see it in the word we use to describe the world we’re bent on ruining: the environment ? the stuff that surrounds the mammal with the outsized brain who almost by definition (our definition, of course) is at the centre of things.
We’re not the norm, though, whatever we pretend. Our presence has been brief, almost non-existent when measured against the planet’s 4.5 billion years. And our long-term prospects are doubtful, even if we take advantage of global warming to resist the next ice age for a few measly millennia while managing to evade the killer asteroids, tectonic jolts and toxic habitats that did in our predecessors.
Harry Potter 7 Greenest Book in Publishing History
July 17, 2007, Vancouver ? The Harry Potter series has galvanized the world?s book industry into going green, from spurring the development of 32 new ecological papers, six for Potter exclusively, to igniting a shift where 300 publishers have adopted environmental policies that are helping to protect Canada?s Boreal forest among others, says Markets Initiative, the Vancouver-based environmental group that worked with J.K. Rowling starting in 2003 and hundreds of publishers and paper mills since to turn other books green.
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Hungry Planet
On the banks of Mali’s Niger River, Soumana Natomo and his family gather for a communal dinner of millet porridge with tamarind juice. In the USA, the Ronayne-Caven family enjoys corndogs-on-a-stick with a tossed green salad. This age-old practice of sitting down to a family meal is undergoing unprecedented change as rising world affluence and trade, along with the spread of global food conglomerates, transform diets worldwide.
Blessed Unrest
Paul Hawken (Natural Capitalism) traces the formation of the environmental and social justice movement from the beginnings of natural science … Continue reading Blessed Unrest
The top 10 environmental films
Movies Features | The top 10 environmental films | Straight.com Vancouver Most of the films below, in our survey of … Continue reading The top 10 environmental films
Leaving Microsoft to Change the World: An Entrepreneur?s Odyssey to Educate the World?s Children
From HarperCollins.ca…
John Wood discovered his passion, his greatest success, and his life’s work?not at business school or leading Microsoft’s charge into Asia in the 1990s?but on a soul-searching trip to the Himalayas. Wood felt trapped between an all-consuming career and a desire to do something lasting and significant. Stressed from the demands of his job, he took a vacation trekking in Nepal because a friend had told him, “If you get high enough in the mountains, you can’t hear Steve Ballmer yelling at you anymore.”
The Change Handbook
The Change Handbook is the most comprehensive guide available to methods of organization and community change. It’s designed for quick and easy access to information about high leverage change from today’s foremost practitioners. This new edition is updated to describe more than 43 additional change methods and includes new chapters on selecting a method, mixing and matching methods, and sustaining results.
Making our Cities People and Planet-Friendly
New Society Publishers – According to UN figures, sometime in mid-2007 the world will enter the “Urban Millennium” — the … Continue reading Making our Cities People and Planet-Friendly
Ecoholic: Your Guide to the Most Environmentally Friendly Information, Products and Services in Canada
When the world’s environmental woes get you down, turn to Ecoholic – Canada’s best resource for practical tips and products that help you do your part for the earth. You’ll get the dirt on what not to buy and why, and the dish on great gifts, clothes, home supplies and more. Based on the popular and authoritative “Ecoholic” column that appears weekly in NOW, Ecoholic is a cheeky and eye-opening guide to all of life’s greenest predicaments.
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Planet U
From New Society…
Planet U places the university at the forefront of the sustainability movement. Questioning the university’s ability to equip society to deal with today’s serious challenges such as economic growth, democratic citizenship and planetary survival, it calls for a new social movement to take a lead in reforming the university – the world’s largest industry.
Planet Earth: As You’ve Never Seen It Before
From Publishers Weekly…
In this gorgeous coffee-table book, an offshoot of the Discovery Channel/ BBC series of the same name, zoologist and BBC producer Fothergill takes readers on a kaleidoscopic tour of the flora, fauna and natural history of the Earth’s poles, forests, plains, deserts, mountains and oceans. The series of jaw-dropping photographs starts with a view of Earth from the moon (and pointing out the obvious but shocking fact that no one has been able to see it live since the 1972 Apollo 17 mission).
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