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"From the beloved host of PBS Kids' Dinosaur Train, an easy-to-use guide for parents, teachers, and others looking to foster a strong connection between children and nature, complete with engaging activities, troubleshooting advice, and much more American children spend four to seven minutes a day playing outdoors--90 percent less time than their parents did. Yet recent research indicates that experiences in nature are essential for healthy growth....
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An expert in American housing examines the rise of sprawling subdivisions, their effect on the environment, and sustainable development strategies.
Americans are spreading out more than ever-into "exurbs" and "boomburbs" miles from anywhere, where big subdivisions offer big houses. We cling to the notion of safer neighborhoods and better schools, but what we get are longer commutes, higher taxes, and a landscape of strip malls and office parks.
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Hoy nos enfrentamos a una creciente desestabilización global de los ecosistemas y de los ciclos naturales de nuestro planeta, como consecuencia de una economía extractivista y orientada a un crecimiento sin límites mundializado. Nos hallamos ante una gran crisis ecosocial.
Yayo Herrero propone analizarla a partir de cinco elementos: agua, aire, tierra, fuego... y vida, para poder recuperar la memoria de lo que somos y de dónde venimos, y así...
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The story of a single tree, from the moment the seed is released from its cone until, more than five hundred years later, it lies on the forest floor as a nurse log, giving life to ferns, mosses, and hemlocks, even as its own life is ending. In this unique biography, David Suzuki and Wayne Grady tell story that spans a millennium and includes a cast of millions but focuses on a single tree, a Douglas fir, Tree describes in poetic detail the organism's...
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"In this important book, a pediatric occupational therapist and founder of TimberNook shows how outdoor play and unstructured freedom of movement are vital for children's cognitive development and growth, and offers tons of fun, engaging ways to help ensure that kids grow into healthy, balanced, and resilient adults. Today's kids have adopted sedentary lifestyles filled with television, video games, and computer screens. But more and more, studies...
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“Probably the most eloquent call to arms we’re likely to hear about the politics of water” (The Globe and Mail, Toronto).
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy...
In this “chilling, in-depth examination of a rapidly emerging global crisis,” Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, two of the most active opponents to the privatization of water show how, contrary to received wisdom, water mainly flows uphill to the wealthy...
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This critical study "artfully explores the power of limits . . . A compelling-and fittingly concise-read for our times" (Kate Raworth, author of Doughnut Economics).
Western culture is infatuated with the dream of endless economic growth, even as it is haunted by the specters of drought, famine, and nuclear winter. How did we come to think of the planet and its limits as we do? This book reclaims, redefines, and makes an impassioned plea for limits-a...
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A passionate call to action from one of the leading voices in the global struggle for universal access to the earth's most vital element-a sequel to the acclaimed Blue Gold.
"Life requires access to clean water; to deny the right to water is to deny the right to life."-from the introduction to Blue Covenant
In their international bestseller Blue Gold, Maude Barlow and co-author Tony Clarke exposed how a handful of corporations are gaining ownership...
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Obi Kaufmann, author of the best-selling California Field Atlas, turns his artful yet analytical attention to the Golden State's single most complex and controversial resource: water. In this new book, full-color maps unravel the braided knot of California's water infrastructure and ecosystems, exposing a history of unlimited growth in spite of finite natural resources-a history that has led to its current precarious circumstances. Yet this built...
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En esta obra se reúnen las iniciativas, pero también las experiencias vividas, por las y los autores que han participado como estudiantes de distintas promociones de las siete primeras versiones del Diplomado en Educación para el Desarrollo Sustentable y cómo este, tanto en la interacción del ejercicio académico de intercambio de saberes como la experiencia –en sí misma– de haberlo cursado ha significado en su desarrollo como persona y...
12) La urbanización del río Tunjuelo: Desigualdad y cambio ambiental en Bogotá a mediados del siglo XX
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El presente libro aporta al estudio de las relaciones entre las desigualdades socio-económicas y los cambios ambientales en la urbanización de Bogotá, un tema de indudable trascendencia justo en un contexto mundial actual marcado por el incremento de las desigualdades a nivel urbano y los desafíos ambientales asociados al cambio climático, la contaminación, los desastres, el derecho al agua, y como nos ha enseñado el 2020, los virus y las pandemias...
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«Una intervención profundamente original en el debate en curso sobre el cambio climático. Una característica particularmente interesante del libro es la forma en que el autor aporta su experiencia en bienestar para influir en la política climática. El bienestar sostenible es su principio rector» (Anthony Giddens, Miembro de la Cámara de Lores y exdirector de la LSE).
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«Ian Gough ha dado en el clavo. Nos ha mostrado cómo es posible...
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En Colombia existe una larga tradición académica y legal sobre el tema de la sostenibilidad, sin embargo, son pocos los referentes en los que estas discusiones han alcanzado al gran público, es evidente la escasa producción bibliográfica en formatos apropiados para motivar reflexiones en la sociedad en general.
Por esa razón, la Universidad del Rosario presenta en este libro una perspectiva contemporánea e integradora sobre el desarrollo sostenible...
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The present era of staggering scientific and technological innovations, with major changes in agriculture, manufacturing, commerce, and communications, seems to document unparalleled human achievement. Yet when we examine the long-term implications, it becomes clear that an ever-growing number of humans have threatened the delicate environmental balance that sustains life on this planet. The past century may be remembered not as a period of great...
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A New York Times bestseller, The Green Collar Economy by award-winning human rights activist and environmental leader Van Jones delivers a much-needed economic and environmental solution to today's two most critical problems. With a revised introduction and new afterword by the author-a man who counsels President Barack Obama on environmental policy-The Green Collar Economy and Jones have been highly praised by a multitude of leaders and legislators,...
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Do you want to take action at work that will benefit you, your job and your community as much as it helps the environment? Lea Elliott's Work Like Nature presents lessons from nature to help you make sense of sustainability and start making a difference.
These ecosystem ideas are illustrated through inspiring stories from Vancouver-area green innovators. See how these bright thinkers from a variety of disciplines work like nature to benefit the...
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Sustainability offers a vision for business and society that benefits Earth. Yet sustainability is often taught in abstract and disconnected ways.
With the Yellowstone River Valley of Montana as its setting, this book introduces readers to sustainability issues, theory, and science. It addresses business profitability, physical environment processes, wildlife, public policies, and American Indian rights. It stresses practical understandings of sustainability...
19) Biogeotherapy
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Biogeotherapy – nature-based climate solutions, life as a geological healing force, presents a movement composed of farmers, scientists, politicians, and diplomatic actors. It is based on four natural restorative practices: holistic grazing management, no-till agriculture with cover crops, biochar, and massive reforestation. Agro-forestry, blue carbon, living machines, the restoration of peatlands, and other nature-based solutions (NbS) or negative...
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In 2002, I was giving a talk about sustainable furnishings and the impact of products on the environment. I finished the opening statement with the line "One green deed spawns another." It was meant to get the audience more broadly engaged in the welfare of our environment; the thought that a single effort might compel someone else to act seemed so simple. For fifteen years, I have closed many other talks with those same five words. If you polled...
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