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A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North America's largest untapped reservoirs of natural gas, the Red Desert is a magnet for energy producers who are damaging its complex and fragile ecosystem...
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El libro que el lector tiene en sus manos contiene un conjunto de reflexiones y debates en torno a los temas de la pedagogía de la Tierra, la sustentabilidad, la ética y las condiciones de la vida. Surge de las diferentes sesiones de trabajo realizadas en el marco de la Cátedra Valle del Cauca promovidas por el IEPS y el Doctorado en Regiones Sostenibles. El propósito de la Cátedra es abordar diferentes problemas relacionados con los temas ambientales...
3) Food First
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This book looks back on forty years of writings from the Oakland-based Institute for Food and Development Policy, better known as Food First, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary. The book highlights the breadth and depth of the organization's published works, addressing issues such as hunger, international trade, US foreign policy, the Green Revolution, agroecology, climate justice, land reform, food and farm workers' rights, and food sovereignty....
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Extinction Studies asks what extinction means to diverse global communities. Essays focus on the entangled ecological and social dimensions of extinction, exploring the ways in which this event catastrophically interrupts life's gifts of time, death, and generations, opening up important philosophical questions about our place in, and obligations to, a more-than-human world.
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Los movimientos socioambientales y la educación ambiental saben que la realidad no se cambia con deseos. Esta obra muestra que aún es posible amotinar a grupos sociales por medio de expresiones como la poesía y el cine para movilizar conciencias y motivar una acción serena pero firme. Ambas fuerzas convergen en esta publicación para hacer frente a un amargo paisaje trazado por una modernidad desbocada y caótica, con la finalidad de desatar nudos...
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In 2004, a London-based community organization called We Are What We Do launched with the publication of a little book with a big idea: 50 simple actions to make the world a better place. Since then, Change the World for Ten Bucks has spawned a movement, multiple editions, and sales of over one million copies internationally. At last, here's the U.S. edition. Change the World for Ten Bucks delights and engages at every turn. It includes a postcard...
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Voiceless is an Australian think tank promoting respect and compassion for animals. Part of that endeavor is the awarding of the Voiceless Writing Prize, sponsored by Australian Ethical Investment. With a prize pool of over $20,000 it is one of the largest awards of its kind in Australia. Judged by an expert panel, the prize is awarded for Australian writing which advances the public's understanding of animal sentience, human-animal relationships,...
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En el acuerdo de París (2015) de la Conferencia de las Partes de Cambio Climático, los países se comprometieron a disminuir sus emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero para que la temperatura del planeta no suba más de los 2 °C, para mediados de este siglo. Dicho compromiso implicará estilos y modos de vida diferentes a los que actualmente conocemos.
La escala espacial en la que actúa el cambio climático es planetaria, regional y local. En...
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This publication presents a biodiversity baseline assessment that was conducted in 2014−2015 at the Phipsoo Wildlife Sanctuary in southern Bhutan. Inventory and sampling of tree, avian, mammal, and fish species was accomplished in three areas. Grassland conditions and illegal tree harvesting were quantified. The assessment confirmed the presence of 27 protected species. Mammals accounted for the majority at 74%. Camera trapping over 5 months yielded...
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The art and science of audiovisual preservation and access has evolved at breakneck speed in the digital age. The Joint Technical Symposium (JTS) is organized by the Coordinating Council of Audiovisual Archives Associations and brings experts from around the world to learn of technologies and developments in the technical issues affecting the long-term survival and accessibility of audiovisual collections. This collection of essays is derived from...
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A selection of papers published in the Ecological Citizen journal; an independent, peer-reviewed, free-to-access journal that provides a forum for inspiring and mobilizing discussion with an Earth-centered perspective. Each paper offers a perspective on ecocentric approaches to life. What does it mean to be ecocentric? Deep green, or ecocentric, is feeling that it is wrong for humans to have an unreasonably large, negative impact on the natural world...
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Esta obra, resultado de la investigación que se lleva a cabo en la Maestría en Derecho y Gestión Ambiental de la Universidad del Rosario, busca aportar a las discusiones sobre la sostenibilidad del desarrollo. Estas reflexiones parten de la premisa de que la "ambientalización del derecho privado" debe iniciar desde el núcleo de las empresas, es decir, desde los principios corporativos que orientan su actuar, en la manera en como diseñan sus...
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La prevención en materia ambiental, como concepto y principio, es una opción eficaz para aplicar el principio ético de responsabilidad esbozado por Hans Jonas, que propugna por un tratamiento responsable del ambiente de cara a su preservación para las generaciones venideras. En este sentido, la prevención es también un mecanismo de gestión que le da a cada riesgo ambiental el tratamiento particular que se merece, dadas sus características,...
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The Archaeological Investigations Project (AIP), funded by English Heritage, systematically collected information about the nature and outcomes of more than 86,000 archaeological projects undertaken between 1990 and 2010. This volume looks at the long-term trends in archaeological investigation and reporting, places this work within wider social, political, and professional contexts, and reviews its achievements. Information was collected through...
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With its thirty-three essays, This Impermanent Earth charts the course of the American literary response to the twentieth century's accumulation of environmental deprivations. Arranged chronologically from 1974 to the present, the works have been called from The Georgia Review, long considered an important venue for nonfiction among literary magazines published in the United States.
The essays range in subject matter from twentieth-century examples...
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Public Archaeology and Climate Change promotes new approaches to studying and managing sites threatened by climate change, specifically actions that engage communities or employ 'citizen science' initiatives. Researchers and heritage managers around the world are witnessing severe challenges and developing innovative mechanisms for dealing with them. Increasingly archaeologists are embracing practices learned from the natural heritage sector, which...
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Since 2012, The Wayfarer has been offering literature, interviews, and art with the intention to inspires our readers, enrich their lives, and highlight the power for agency and change-making that each individual holds.
By our definition, a wayfarer is one whose inner compass is ever-oriented to truth, wisdom, healing, and beauty in their own wandering.
The Wayfarer's mission as a publication is to foster a community of contemplative voices...
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Endangered animals need everyone's help - regardless of age, gender, race and social status. The first step to protecting endangered animals is to educate the young. The purpose is to make children become aware of what endangered animals are, where they can be found and what can be done to save them. Read this book with your 10-year-old today!
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Citizen science enlists members of the public to make and record useful observations, such as counting birds in their backyards, watching for the first budding leaf in spring, or measuring local snowfall. The large numbers of volunteers who participate in projects such as Project FeederWatch or Project BudBurst collect valuable research data, which, when pooled together, create an enormous body of scientific data on a vast geographic scale. In return,...
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A HISTORY OF OUTDOOR LEADERSHIP
In 1965, in the Wind River mountains of Wyoming, legendary mountaineer Paul Petzoldt founded a new school dedicated to the notion that the wilderness classroom could teach leadership. In the fifty years since, the National Outdoor Leadership School (NOLS) has embraced and explored the unknown, leading over a quarter of a million students through transformative educational experiences both vast in scale and deeply personal.
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