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“mark winfield”

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  • Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada

    Edited by Mark Winfield, Stephen Hill, James Gaede ...
    Canadian energy systems need to evolve. Beyond providing essential energy services, they must respond to climate change, enhance social justice, and remain sensitive to local cultures and traditions. Can they do this and still make financial sense?Sustainable Energy Transitions in Canada gathers experts from across the country to share perspectives on leading theories and practices. Contributors ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Essential Volunteer Handbook

    by Mark Winfield ...
    The Essential Volunteer Handbook provides all the help you will need to find a rewarding volunteer experience in your local community. Easily read in one sitting, information is provided on locating and selecting opportunities that will make a difference while helping you grow as a person. The author shares philosophical insights, useful information and great stories about what you can expect from ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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    Fossil-Fuel Propaganda and How to Fight It

    by Genevieve Guenther ...
    A groundbreaking investigation into the propaganda justifying the fossil-fuel economy, The Language of Climate Politics offers readers powerful new ways to talk about the climate crisis that will help create transformative change. "If you want to understand the climate crisis and you only have time to read one book, this should be it." - Kieran Setiya, author of Life is Hard "A revelatory study.. ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Five Times Faster

    Rethinking the Science, Economics, and Diplomacy of Climate Change

    by Simon Sharpe ...
    We need to act five times faster to avoid dangerous climate change. As Greenland melts, Australia burns, and greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise, we think we know who the villains are: oil companies, consumerism, weak political leaders. But what if the real blocks to progress are the ideas and institutions that are supposed to be helping us? Five Times Faster is an inside story from Simon ... Read more

    $20.49 USD

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  • The Growth Story of the 21st Century

    The Economics and Opportunity of Climate Action

    by Nicholas Stern ...
    The world stands at a crossroads. The next decade will determine whether we avoid climate, biodiversity, and economic catastrophe - or unlock a new era of sustainable, resilient, and inclusive growth. The Growth Story of the 21st Century challenges the outdated idea that we must choose between climate action and development. Instead, it presents a compelling case for a transformation that delivers ... Read more

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  • Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World

    A New Economics for the Middle Class, the Global Poor, and Our Climate

    by Dani Rodrik ...
    New, practical approaches to confronting today’s most daunting global issuesFighting climate change, saving democracy, and eradicating poverty are urgent global challenges, yet the world’s leaders continue to pursue outdated policies that focus on one while worsening the tradeoffs between each of them. Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World shows how the nations of the world can achieve all three ... Read more

    $20.19 USD

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  • Escape from Overshoot

    Economics for a Planet in Peril

    by Peter A. Victor ...
    An excellent primer on key insights and questions in ecological economics from a celebrated pioneer of the field.—Jason Hickel, author, Less is MoreEarth is in overshoot. The juggernaut of economic growth rolls on, consuming the biosphere, breaking planetary boundaries, and stretching inequality and injustice to the breaking point. But does it really need to be this way? And if not, what are the ... Read more

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  • Growth for Good

    Reshaping Capitalism to Save Humanity from Climate Catastrophe

    by Alessio Terzi ...
    A Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearFrom the front lines of economics and policymaking, a compelling case that economic growth is a force for good and a blueprint for enrolling it in the fight against climate change.Economic growth is wrecking the planet. It’s the engine driving climate change, pollution, and the shrinking of natural spaces. To save the environment, will we have to shrink the ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • Fixing the Climate

    Strategies for an Uncertain World

    by Charles F. Sabel, David G. Victor ...
    Solving the global climate crisis through local partnerships and experimentationGlobal climate diplomacy—from the Kyoto Protocol to the Paris Agreement—is not working. Despite decades of sustained negotiations by world leaders, the climate crisis continues to worsen. The solution is within our grasp—but we will not achieve it through top-down global treaties or grand bargains among nations.Charles ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • State of the World 2014

    Governing for Sustainability

    by The Worldwatch Institute, David W. Orr, Tom Prugh, Michael Renner, John Gowdy, Robert Engelman, Michael L. Weber, Conor Seyle, Matthew Wilburn King, Matt Leighninger, Diana Lind, Monty Hempel, Peter Brown, Jeremy J. Schmidt, Cormac Cullinan, Isabel Hilton, Sam Geall, Shakuntala Makhijani, Aaron Sachs, Inge Kaul, Maria Ivanova, Rick Worthington, Sean Sweeney, Dr., Thomas Palley, Gar Alperovitz, Colleen Cordes, David Bollier, Burns Weston, Petra Bartosiewicz, Marissa Miley, Evan Musolino, Katie Auth, Nina Netzer, Judith Gouverneur, Josephine Mitschke, Ian Johnson, Yu Hongyuan ...
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    Citizens expect their governments to lead on sustainability. But from largely disappointing international conferences like Rio II to the U.S.’s failure to pass meaningful climate legislation, governments’ progress has been lackluster. That’s not to say leadership is absent; it just often comes from the bottom up rather than the top down. Action—on climate, species loss, inequity, and other ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Ecology for the 99%

    Twenty Capitalist Myths Debunked

    by Frédéric Legault, Arnaud Theurillat-Cloutier, Alain Savard ...
    Translated by Charles Simard ...
    If everyone—from Emmanuel Macron to Jeff Bezos, and even Coca Cola—is green, why is the environmental crisis growing at an alarmingly rapid rate? The world is already experiencing the impact of climate crisis, but we are not equally responsible for its violent effects. Some of those who claim to be helping the planet are actually making things worse. To avoid being duped by false allies and to ... Read more

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  • A Green and Global Europe

    by Nathalie Tocci ...
    After years of existential crisis, Europe has found a new raison d’être: the European Green Deal and the energy transition that lies at its core. This green Europe represents a normative vision, an economic growth strategy, as well as a route to a political Union that would enhance EU integration and legitimacy. But it can only be realized if it addresses head-on the social, economic, political ... Read more

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