Main Title |
Discussion course on choices for sustainable living. |
CORP Author |
Northwest Earth Institute. |
Publisher |
Northwest Earth Institute, |
Year Published |
1998 |
OCLC Number |
45017552 |
Subjects |
Human ecology ;
Food habits ;
Lifestyles ;
Quality of life ;
Sustainable agriculture ;
Sustainable development
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Holdings |
Library |
Call Number |
Additional Info |
Location |
Last Modified |
Checkout Status |
EIAM |
HN60.N6 1999 |
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Region 2 Library/New York,NY |
07/09/2004 |
STATUS |
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Collation |
1 v. (various pagings) : ill. ; 27 cm. |
Contents Notes |
A call to sustainability: Definitions of sustainability -- Easter's end (excerpts) / Jared Diamond -- Putting a price on mother nature (excerpts) / Richard Hill -- No simple answers / Robert Gilman -- The great turning / Joanna Macy -- Ecological principles: Design, ecology, ethics and the making of things / William McDonough -- The natural step to sustainability / Mary Jane Brukardt -- Case studies: Scandic hotels thrives with the natural step ; Interface- first U.S. natural step company, proclaims a vision -- The laws of the earth and the laws of economics / Donella Meadows -- Case study: Bear River's living machine / Dave Redwwod, Sean Kelly -- Sustainable communities: Our ecological footprint (excerpts) / Mathis Wackernagel, William Rees -- Cities of exuberance / Sarah van Gelder -- Working for the planet in the neighborhood / Patricia Mazza -- Meet your neighbors / Patricia Long -- Case study: Hourly car rental pulls into the USA / Patrick McMahon -- Sustainable business and economy: Money vs. life / David Korten -- If the GDP is up, why is America down? (excerpts) / Clifford Cobb, Ted Halstead, Jonathan Rowe -- Natural capitalism (excerpts) / Paul Hawken -- Case study: Making money: local currencies and bartering networks / Marshall Glickman -- Sustainable food: Community-support agriculture: rediscovering community (excerpts) / Jack Kittredge -- Reclaiming eating as sacred relationship / Jeremy Rifkin -- A bite felt 'round the world (excerpts) / John Robbins, Jia Patton -- The great hunter-gatherer continuum (excerpts) / Jim Mulligan -- Top ten reasons to buy organic -- Sustainable buying: American excess: are we shopping our planet to death? / Alan Durning -- What do we need? Some lessons from the third world (excerpts) / Joanna May --Excess to enough (excerpts) / Vicki Robin -- Sustainability: the new benchmark for evaluating everyday products / Debra Dadd-Redalia -- Sustainable living: Obligation of care (excerpts) / Wendell Berry -- Co-housing: somewhere
between neighborhood and commune / Donella Meadows -- Small is beautiful / Matt Holland -- Case study: Resource-responsive homes / Pliny Fisk -- Learning to live in place: a set of queries / Gregory Smith -- In praise of idleness / Jay Walljasper -- Visions of sustainability: A gift to future generations -- Beyond the limits to growth / D. meadows, Jorgen Randers -- Seven sustainable wonders of the world / Alan Thein Durning -- Crossing the threshold: early signs of an environmental awakening (excerpts) / Lester Brown -- The common life (excerpts) / Scott Russell Sanders.
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Place Published |
Portland, Or. : |
Alternate Title |
Choices for sustainable living. |
PUB Date Free Form |
c2000. |
BIB Level |
m |
Cataloging Source |
OCLC/T |
OCLC Time Stamp |
20040709154559 |
Language |
eng |
Origin |
OCLC |
Type |
CAT |
OCLC Rec Leader |
03370nam 2200277Ia 45020 |