GrassRoutes Oakland & Berkeley

GrassRoutes Oakland & Berkeley

Author: Serena Bartlett

Publisher:

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781570616068

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Written by and appealing to a younger generation, GrassRoutes titles address an interest in green travel, sustainable living, and interest in youth culture and music. Whether it's a vegan organic or late-night literary, an urban bike tour or stalking fine art and architecture, this lively guide reveals the thriving metropolis forever in San Francisco's shadow.


Grassroutes Travel Guide to Oakland

Grassroutes Travel Guide to Oakland

Author: Serena Bartlett

Publisher:

Published: 2006-10-01

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9781430302001

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Oakland, California has more to offer than anyone would have guessed. From a vibrant underground music and art scene to the most straight ahead sustainable restaurants and businesses, it should not be missed on a vacation to the Bay Area. Oakland has a rich history marked by a welcoming spirit and the most ethnically diverse population in the United States. This ground-breaking guide is the first in Serena BartlettâÂÂs new travel series. The beauty of the natural habitats, cultural celebration and flavors of this city are brought to the written page for the first time. Come travel with her, using your GrassRoutes Travel Guide. This travel guide includes 35 maps and illustrations, and travel tips for every kind of trip. It features sustainable, local businesses so you can give back to the community. Designed both for locals and travelers alike, this guide incorporates a multiplicity of experiences for every age and economic status.


Oakland and Berkeley

Oakland and Berkeley

Author: Serena Bartlett

Publisher: ReadHowYouWant

Published: 2010-06

Total Pages: 512

ISBN-13: 9781458761644

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GrassRoutes is a new kind of guidebook, written by and appealing to a younger generation than other travel guide series. The books address an interest in green travel, sustainable living, and interest in youth culture and music. There really is a there there, and this book points the way. Whether it's vegan organic or late-night literary, an urban bike tour or stalking fine art and architecture, this lively guide reveals the thriving metropolis forever in San Francisco's shadow. Listings cover cafs, markets, music, art, contemplative places, and other friendly scenes, with an emphasis on sustainability and local flavor.


Oakland

Oakland

Author: Serena Bartlett

Publisher: GrassRoutes

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780979146206

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Wild Law - In Practice

Wild Law - In Practice

Author: Michelle Maloney

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-03-05

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1136008322

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Wild Law - In Practice aims to facilitate the transition of Earth Jurisprudence from theory into practice. Earth Jurisprudence is an emerging philosophy of law, coined by cultural historian and geologian Thomas Berry. It seeks to analyse the contribution of law in constructing, maintaining and perpetuating anthropocentrism and addresses the ways in which this orientation can be undermined and ultimately eliminated. In place of anthropocentrism, Earth Jurisprudence advocates an interpretation of law based on the ecocentric concept of an Earth community that includes both human and nonhuman entities. Addressing topics that include a critique of the effectiveness of environmental law in protecting the environment, developments in domestic/constitutional law recognising the rights of nature, and the regulation of sustainability, Wild Law - In Practice is the first book to focus specifically on the practical legal implications of Earth Jurisprudence.


Secret Stairs: East Bay

Secret Stairs: East Bay

Author: Charles Fleming

Publisher: Santa Monica Press

Published: 2011-05-01

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 1595808795

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Revised and Updated in September 2020! The hills of the East Bay contain one of the finest and densest urban hiking environments in the state of California—more than 400 paved pathways and public staircases lattice up and down the slopes of Berkeley and Oakland alone. Rising high above the city centers, with towering views of the San Francisco Bay, the Bay Bridge, and San Francisco itself, these elegant civic walking trails—many of them shaded in oaks and redwoods, and many unknown even to local resi dents—present a unique land scape for both the casual walker and dedicated hiker. Charles Fleming, the Southern California author whose bestselling 2010 walking guide Secret Stairs turned the hidden public staircases of Los Angeles into popular hiking trails, now turns his eyes north ward. For Secret Stairs: East Bay, Fleming has designed more than 30 individual hiking loops. Linking multiple staircases into one-to two-hour self-guided strolls, these urban treks will delight the tourist, newly arrived Berkeley undergraduate, and veteran Bay Area resident alike. The circular walks, each calibrated by length, difficulty, and duration—and each accompanied by a detailed, easy-to-follow map—are sprinkled with fascinating facts about the his toric staircases, the historic homes around them, and the famous Bay Area characters who gave them their names. Walk the walks of Bret Harte, Mark Twain, and John Muir! Climb Berkeley’s massive Fred Herbert and Tamalpais Paths, hike Easter Way, and summit Sunset Trail! Mount Oakland’s Oakmore stairs, then tackle the hills of Upper Rockridge and Crocker Highlands via the public staircases. And do it all within easy walking distance from BART or bus stops, free parking, and excellent Bay Area cafés.


State of Health

State of Health

Author: Amy Cooper

Publisher: University of California Press

Published: 2019-04-02

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 0520299299

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State of Health takes readers inside one of the most controversial regimes of the twenty-first century—Venezuela under Hugo Chávez—for a revealing description of how people’s lives changed for the better as the state began reorganizing society. With lively and accessible storytelling, Amy Cooper chronicles the pleasure people experienced accessing government health care and improving their quality of life. From personalized doctor’s visits to therapeutic dance classes, new health care programs provided more than medical services. State of Health offers a unique perspective on the significance of the Bolivarian Revolution for ordinary people, demonstrating how the transformed health system succeeded in exciting people and recognizing historically marginalized Venezuelans as bodies who mattered.


We Created Chávez

We Created Chávez

Author: Geo Maher

Publisher: Duke University Press

Published: 2013-04-17

Total Pages: 347

ISBN-13: 0822378930

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Since being elected president in 1998, Hugo Chávez has become the face of contemporary Venezuela and, more broadly, anticapitalist revolution. George Ciccariello-Maher contends that this focus on Chávez has obscured the inner dynamics and historical development of the country’s Bolivarian Revolution. In We Created Chávez, by examining social movements and revolutionary groups active before and during the Chávez era, Ciccariello-Maher provides a broader, more nuanced account of Chávez’s rise to power and the years of activism that preceded it. Based on interviews with grassroots organizers, former guerrillas, members of neighborhood militias, and government officials, Ciccariello-Maher presents a new history of Venezuelan political activism, one told from below. Led by leftist guerrillas, women, Afro-Venezuelans, indigenous people, and students, the social movements he discusses have been struggling against corruption and repression since 1958. Ciccariello-Maher pays particular attention to the dynamic interplay between the Chávez government, revolutionary social movements, and the Venezuelan people, recasting the Bolivarian Revolution as a long-term and multifaceted process of political transformation.


Land and Resource Scarcity

Land and Resource Scarcity

Author: Andreas Exner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-03-05

Total Pages: 319

ISBN-13: 1136223177

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This book brings together geological, biological, radical economic, technological, historical and social perspectives on peak oil and other scarce resources. The contributors to this volume argue that these scarcities will put an end to the capitalist system as we know it and alternatives must be created. The book combines natural science with emancipatory thinking, focusing on bottom up alternatives and social struggles to change the world by taking action. The volume introduces original contributions to the debates on peak oil, land grabbing and social alternatives, thus creating a synthesis to gain an overview of the multiple crises of our times. The book sets out to analyse how crises of energy, climate, metals, minerals and the soil relate to the global land grab which has accelerated greatly since 2008, as well as to examine the crisis of profit production and political legitimacy. Based on a theoretical understanding of the multiple crises and the effects of peak oil and other scarcities on capital accumulation, the contributors explore the social innovations that provide an alternative. Using the most up to date research on resource crises, this integrative and critical analysis brings together the issues with a radical perspective on possibilites for future change as well as a strong social economic and ethical dimesion. The book should be of interest to researchers and students of environmental policy, politics, sustainable development and natural resource management.