Greening at the grassroots
Author: Jessica M. Vivian
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 25
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Author: Jessica M. Vivian
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 25
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Kevin Danaher
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2016-01-08
Total Pages: 296
ISBN-13: 1317262913
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAfter centuries of economic activity based on extraction, exploitation, and depletion, we now face undeniable environmental threats. New business models that save or restore natural resources are critical. But how can we translate that insight into more sustainable practices? Building the Green Economy shows how community groups, families, and individual citizens have taken action to protect their food and water, clean up their neighborhoods, and strengthen their local economies. Their unlikely victories—over polluters, unresponsive bureaucracies, and unexamined routines—dramatize the opportunities and challenges facing the local green economy movement. Drawing on their extensive experience at Global Exchange and elsewhere, the authors also: Lay out strategies for a more successful green movement Describe how communities have protected their victories from legal and political challenges Provide key resources for local activists Include conversations with Rocky Anderson, Lois Gibbs, Anuradha Mittal, David Morris, Michael Shuman, and other activists and leaders.
Author: Eva Cheung Robinson
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Published: 1998-01-01
Total Pages: 144
ISBN-13: 9788170366720
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Lauren Fifield
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Published: 2008
Total Pages: 65
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Graciella Rossi
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Published: 1996
Total Pages: 98
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Marianne E. Krasny
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018-06-15
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1501714996
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This edited volume presents diverse case studies about the implications of civic ecology practices worldwide. It answers how civic ecology practices emerge, the role the practices play in the ability of communities and individuals to address social-ecological stresses, and given climate-associated disturbances, what strategies can be used to expand impacts of community driven practices to foster large-scale resilience and sustainability"--
Author: Eva Cheung Robinson
Publisher: National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 302
ISBN-13: 9780612067905
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stephen Milder
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2017-04-24
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1108228690
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGreening Democracy explains how nuclear energy became a seminal political issue and motivated new democratic engagement in West Germany during the 1970s. Using interviews, as well as the archives of environmental organizations and the Green party, the book traces the development of anti-nuclear protest from the grassroots to parliaments. It argues that worries about specific nuclear reactors became the basis for a widespread anti-nuclear movement only after government officials' unrelenting support for nuclear energy caused reactor opponents to become concerned about the state of their democracy. Surprisingly, many citizens thought transnationally, looking abroad for protest strategies, cooperating with activists in other countries, and conceiving of 'Europe' as a potential means of circumventing recalcitrant officials. At this nexus between local action and global thinking, anti-nuclear protest became the basis for citizens' increasing engagement in self-governance, expanding their conception of democracy well beyond electoral politics and helping to make quotidian personal concerns political.
Author: Deborah Lynn Guber
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780262571609
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn analysis of Americans' environmental concerns and their willingness to translate their beliefs into action.
Author: Alan Thein Durning
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Published: 1989
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are many forces of environmental and economic decline that endanger our communities and planet. These have caused a global threat which is very complex. The pressure to feed increasing numbers of people helps cause high rates of topsoil loss which results in decreased agricultural productivity. As poorer nations attempt to fight these problems, millions of their children die of preventable diseases. On the other hand, rising industrialization has caused acid rain and air pollution, leading to the death of lakes, forests and streams, and endangering human health. Individual efforts to combat these enormous threats appear miniscule but, when added together, their impact has the ability to revolutionize the earth. Grassroots groups, governments, and international agencies must learn to work together to show the world how to tap human energy to perform the acts for achieving and sustaining global economy. This publication contains an introduction and notes section, along with the following topics: (1) "Rising Grassroots Movements"; (2) "The Genesis of Local Action"; (3) "Meeting Human Needs"; (4) "Earning Our Daily Bread"; (5) "Protecting the Local Environment"; (6) "Reforming Development Assistance"; and (7) "From the Bottom and the Top." (RT)