The Raw Milk Revolution: Behind America’s Emerging Battle Over Food Rights
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The underlying message in Julie Hill’s book, The Secret Life of Stuff: A Manual for a New Material World, is one of conscious simplification. Not one to slap the wrists of consumers, she professes a...
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Getting A Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want is a revised edition of a book that addresses the common feeling that the planet is in trouble and we have little control...
View ArticleGlobal Governance and the UN
Considering our vast cultural and political differences, is it really possible to collectively solve the world’s social, economic and environmental problems? And more importantly, if so, how do we...
View ArticlePragmatics of Community Organizing
Author Bill Lee has covered a great deal of ground in the fourth and much-updated issue of Pragmatics of Community Organizing, a classic in the field of community organizing in Canada. In an up-to-the...
View ArticlePaths to a Green World: The Political Economy of the Global Environment
Professors Clapp and Dauvergne are among the few academics that recognize that the best approach to both analysis of and advocacy for environmental issues lies with political economy, or public policy...
View ArticleThe Agitator’s Library
With the worldwide explosion of the Occupy movement, and related Indignado protests in Europe, renewed attention has focused on the possibility of a new high water mark in the push for social change....
View ArticlePlato’s Revenge: Politics in the Age of Ecology
If Herman Daly is the economist for sustainable development, Amory Lovins the physicist and Al Gore the politician, William Ophuls must be the philosopher. Ophuls’ first book on the subject, Ecology...
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