Green Guerrillas
Author: Helen Collinson
Publisher:
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 272
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnlightening and highly disturbing insight into a host of environmental issues and conflicts in Latin America and the Carribbean.
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Guerilla Green
Author: Ophelie Damblé
Publisher: BOOM! Box
Published: 2021-04-13
Total Pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9781684156634
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOphélie is a thirty years old city-dweller who’s joined the guerilla gardening movement fighting for decades to bring more green back into cities - and now she’s putting the guerillas’ motto into action by reviving the true spirit of her city and showing everyone the true nature of their world! “PLANT...EVERYWHERE!” Ophélie is a thirty years old city-dweller who’s joined the guerilla gardening movement fighting for decades to bring more green back into cities that increasingly resemble concrete jungles. Now she’s putting the guerillas’ motto into action by reviving the true spirit of her city and showing everyone the true nature of their world! Cookie Kalkair & Ophelie Damblé explore the real world of the guerilla gardening movement that teaches us the principles of making our cities more beautiful and sustainable places, one plant at a time.
Guerrilla Gardening
Author: David Tracey
Publisher: New Society Publishers
Published: 2007-04-01
Total Pages: 240
ISBN-13: 1550923897
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe term “guerrilla” may bring to mind a small band of armed soldiers, moving in the dead of night on a stealth mission. In the case of guerrilla gardening, the soldiers are planters, the weapons are shovels, and the mission is to transform an abandoned lot into a thing of beauty. Once an environmentalist’s nonviolent direct action for inner-city renewal, this movement is spreading to all types of people in cities around the world. These modern-day Johnny Appleseeds perform random acts of gardening, often without permission. Typical targets are vacant lots, railway land, underused public squares, and back alleys. The concept is simple, whimsical, and has the cheeky appeal of being a not-quite-legal call to action. Dig in some soil, plant a few seeds, or mend a sagging fence—one good deed inspiring another, with win-win benefits all around. Guerrilla Gardening outlines the power-to-the-people campaign for greening our cities. Tips for effective involvement include: • Finding plants and seeds cheap (or free) • Handling city officials • Getting the dirt on soil • Planting to bring back the birds • Knowing when to ask first Social activists, city dwellers, and longtime gardeners will delight in this fast-paced and funny call to arms. David Tracey is a journalist and environmental designer who operates EcoUrbanist in Vancouver. He is executive director of Tree City Canada, a nonprofit ecological engagement group.
Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green
Author: Jay Conrad Levinson
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2010-01-08
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 047056458X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThese Two Masters of Marketing Want to Pass Their Most Powerful Success Strategies on to You! Learn to: Slash marketing costs and boost profits by making your business as green and ethical as possible Easily turn your customers, suppliers, and even competitors into your unofficial sales force Understand how to turn business acquaintances into powerful joint-venture partners Cut your advertising budget and build revenues using social media, traditional media, and the power of your own brain—even get paid to do your marketing Harness the Magic Triangle and the Abundance Principle to skyrocket to success Find all this and much more within the covers of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green—your road map to thrive and prosper as a green, ethical business in tough times and good times. "A playbook for companies that want to succeed in a world where integrity and transparency trump slick slogans. This is a gem that should be required reading—not just for so-called green marketers, but for any marketer who wants to succeed in today's economy, and tomorrow's." — Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz.com, and author, Strategies for the Green Economy "Very wise words from very wise men. Shel and Jay are seasoned marketing pros who not only talk the talk, but walk the walk . . . Follow the advice of Guerrilla Marketing Goes Green. Your current customers, your new customers, and your bank account will be richer for it." —Bob Burg, author, Endless Referrals, and coauthor, The Go-Giver
The SS Hunter Battalions
Author: Prof Perry Biddiscombe
Publisher: The History Press
Published: 2006-11-15
Total Pages: 534
ISBN-13: 075249645X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConventional wisdom suggests that the Allies and the Soviets were the only side in the Second World War to support resistance movements. This book shows that Hitler had his own version of the SOE and the OSS, and that the Nazis too encouraged underground resistance against their enemies, especially as Europe was liberated in 1944-5.
Nature-Based Solutions for Cities
Author: Timon McPhearson
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2023-08-14
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 1800376766
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an open access title available under the terms of a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 License. It is free to read, download and share on Elgaronline.com. Nature-based solutions (NBS) are increasingly being adopted to address climate change, health, and urban sustainability, yet ensuring they are effective and inclusive remains a challenge. Addressing these challenges through chapters by leading experts in both global south and north contexts, this forward-looking book advances the science of NBS in cities and discusses the frontiers for next-generation urban NBS.
Urban Gardening as Politics
Author: Chiara Tornaghi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-07-11
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 1351811010
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhile most of the existing literature on community gardens and urban agriculture share a tendency towards either an advocacy view or a rather dismissive approach on the grounds of the co-optation of food growing, self-help and voluntarism to the neoliberal agenda, this collection investigates and reflects on the complex and sometimes contradictory nature of these initiatives. It questions to what extent they address social inequality and injustice and interrogates them as forms of political agency that contest, transform and re-signify ‘the urban’. Claims for land access, the right to food, the social benefits of city greening/community conviviality, and insurgent forms of planning, are multiplying within policy, advocacy and academic literature; and are becoming increasingly manifested through the practice of urban gardening. These claims are symptomatic of the way issues of social reproduction intersect with the environment, as well as the fact that urban planning and the production of space remains a crucial point of an ever-evolving debate on equity and justice in the city. Amid a mushrooming over positive literature, this book explores the initiatives of urban gardening critically rather than apologetically. The contributors acknowledge that these initiatives are happening within neoliberal environments, which promote –among other things - urban competition, the dismantling of the welfare state, the erasure of public space and ongoing austerity. These initiatives, thus, can either be manifestation of new forms of solidarity, political agency and citizenship or new tools for enclosure, inequality and exclusion. In designing this book, the progressive stance of these initiatives has therefore been taken as a research question, rather than as an assumption. The result is a collection of chapters that explore potentials and limitations of political gardening as a practice to envision and implement a more sustainable and just city.
A People's Guide to New York City
Author: Carolina Bank Muñoz
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2022-01-25
Total Pages: 579
ISBN-13: 0520964152
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis alternative guidebook for one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations explores all five boroughs to reveal a people’s New York City. The sites and stories of A People’s Guide to New York City shift our perception of what defines New York, placing the passion, determination, defeats, and victories of its people at the core. Delving into the histories of New York's five boroughs, you will encounter enslaved Africans in revolt, women marching for equality, workers on strike, musicians and performers claiming streets for their art, and neighbors organizing against landfills and industrial toxins and in support of affordable housing and public schools. The streetscapes that emerge from these groups' struggles bear the traces, and this book shows you where to look to find them. New York City is a preeminent global city, serving as the headquarters for hundreds of multinational firms and a world-renowned cultural hub for fashion, art, and music. It is among the most multicultural cities in the world and also one of the most segregated cities in the United States. The people that make this global city function—immigrants, people of color, and the working classes—reside largely in the so-called outer boroughs, outside the corporations, neon, and skyscrapers of Manhattan. A People’s Guide to New York City expands the scope and scale of traditional guidebooks, providing an equitable exploration of the diverse communities throughout the city. Through the stories of over 150 sites across the Bronx, Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island as well as thematic tours and contemporary and archival photographs, a people’s New York emerges, one in which collective struggles for justice and freedom have shaped the very landscape of the city.
Canadian Books in Print. Author and Title Index
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Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1975
Total Pages: 1610
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKTactical Urbanism for Librarians
Author: Karen Munro
Publisher: American Library Association
Published: 2017-05-19
Total Pages: 215
ISBN-13: 083891585X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTactics like "start small," "value intangibles," and "bundle pragmatics with delight" can help libraries engage with their users while also solving immediate problems. Best of all, these projects can be lightweight, inexpensive, and quick to realize.
