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  • Food Waste

    Home Consumption, Material Culture and Everyday Life

    by David M. Evans ...
    Series series Materializing Culture
    In recent years, food waste has risen to the top of the political and public agenda, yet until now there has been no scholarly analysis applied to the topic as a complement and counter-balance to campaigning and activist approaches.Using ethnographic material to explore global issues, Food Waste unearths the processes that lie behind the volume of food currently wasted by households and consumers. ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

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  • Foodopoly

    The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in America

    by Wenonah Hauter ...
    "A meticulously researched tour de force" on politics, big agriculture, and the need to go beyond farmers' markets to find fixes ( Publishers Weekly).Wenonah Hauter owns an organic family farm that provides healthy vegetables to hundreds of families as part of the Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) movement. Yet, as a leading healthy-food advocate, Hauter believes that the local food movement ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Ecology and Socialism

    Solutions to Capitalist Ecological Crisis

    by Chris Williams ...
    Around the world, consciousness of the threat to our environment is growing. The majority of solutions on offer, from using efficient light bulbs to biking to work, focus on individual lifestyle changes, yet the scale of the crisis requires far deeper adjustments. Ecology and Socialism argues that time still remains to save humanity and the planet, but only by building social movements for ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • Staying Alive

    Women, Ecology, and Development

    by Vandana Shiva ...
    Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically. She argues that “maldevelopment”—the violation of the integrity of organic, interconnected, and interdependent systems that sets in motion a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Spiritual Activism

    Leadership as service

    by Alastair McIntosh, Matt Carmichael ...
    A visionary but practical sharing of how spiritual insights, and deepening our inner lives, can impact leadership for social change.Over the past half-century, the issues facing activists have changed, as has our understanding and awareness of spirituality. For activists, spiritual philosophy is rising up the agenda because it offers distinct, tried and tested approaches to deep questions: Where ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Gene Wars

    The Politics of Biotechnology

    by Kristin Dawkins ...
    Series series Open Media Series
    Despite technological advances, an alarming number of people in the world go hungry. Even more chilling is the fact that in the future that number will likely increase. In this book, Kristin Dawkins discusses the international policies that are shaping this future, including those that govern the genetic engineering of plants. Dawkins shows how a diversified gene pool is crucial to food production ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Biting the Hands that Feed Us

    How Fewer, Smarter Laws Would Make Our Food System More Sustainable

    by Baylen J. Linnekin ...
    Food waste, hunger, inhumane livestock conditions, disappearing fish stocks—these are exactly the kind of issues we expect food regulations to combat. Yet, today in the United States, laws exist at all levels of government that actually make these problems worse. Baylen Linnekin argues that, too often, government rules handcuff America’s most sustainable farmers, producers, sellers, and consumers, ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Healing the Herds

    Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary Medicine

    Edited by Karen Brown, Daniel Gilfoyle ...
    Series series Series in Ecology and History
    During the early 1990s, the ability of dangerous diseases to pass between animals and humans was brought once more to the public consciousness. These concerns continue to raise questions about how livestock diseases have been managed over time and in different social, economic, and political circumstances. Healing the Herds: Disease, Livestock Economies, and the Globalization of Veterinary ... Read more

    $29.69 USD

  • Global Food Futures

    Feeding the World in 2050

    by Brian Gardner ...
    By 2050 the world will be faced with the enormous challenge of feeding 9 billion people despite being affected by climate change, rising energy costs and pressure on food growing land and other major resources. How will the world produce 70% more food by 2050 to feed a projected extra 2.3 billion people? What will be the impact of food shortages and high prices on areas in crisis such as sub ... Read more

    $38.09 USD

  • Capacity: Prerequisites for Meaningful Action on Climate Change

    by Carolyn Drugge ...
    In Capacity, systems thinker Carolyn Drugge offers a new and hopeful approach to addressing climate change. Many have argued that new technologies and greater efficiencies will not adequately solve the problem of climate change but few offer actual ways forward. Capacity provides a framework for addressing the issue, not merely the symptoms.In the space that exists between our desire for a better ... Read more

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  • Where Honeybees Thrive

    Stories from the Field

    by Heather Swan ...
    Series series Animalibus
    Colony Collapse Disorder, ubiquitous pesticide use, industrial agriculture, habitat reduction—these are just a few of the issues causing unprecedented trauma in honeybee populations worldwide. In this artfully illustrated book, Heather Swan embarks on a narrative voyage to discover solutions to—and understand the sources of—the plight of honeybees.Through a lyrical combination of creative ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Planning for Rural Resilience

    Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures

    by Wayne Caldwell, Erica Ferguson, Emanuel Lapierre-Fortin, Jennifer Ball, Suzanne Reid, Paul Kraehling, Eric Marr, John Devlin, Chris White, Tony McQuail, Margaret Graves, Bill Deen, Ralph Martin, Christopher Bryant ...
    Climate change and an evolving non-renewable energy sector threaten the future viability and sustainability of communities across the country. While rural communities have a special place in the national fabric, they often lack the resources to tackle these important and evolving threats.Planning for Rural Resilience: Coping with Climate Change and Energy Futures makes clear that communities and ... Read more

    $17.99 USD