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Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World by Alan Weisman Publisher Comments Los Llanos--the rain-leached, eastern savannas of war-ravaged Colombia--are among the most brutal environments on Earth and an unlikely setting for one of the most hopeful environmental stories ever told. Here, in the late 1960s, a young Colombian... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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The Transition Companion: Making Your Community More Resilient in Uncertain Times by Rob Hopkins Publisher Comments In 2008, the best-selling The Transition Handbook suggested a model for a community-led response to peak oil and climate change. Since then, the Transition idea has gone viral across the globe, from Italian villages and Brazilian favelas to universities... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Trade Paper
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Small Is Possible: Life in a Local Economy by Lyle Estill Publisher Comments In Small is Possible, Estill chronicles the failures and victories of an ongoing movement for sustainability and local resiliency in Chatham County, located in the piedmont region of North Carolina. Estill is a legitimate source on the subject: he co... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cornerstone of Development: Integrating Environmental, Social, and Economic Policies by Jamie Schurr Publisher Comments The links between poverty and environmental damage, two of today's most serious global problems, are becoming more and more apparent. By applying current learning theory to policy integration, this book identifies the ways in which we might be taught to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Slow Is Beautiful: New Visions of Community, Leisure and Joie de Vivre by Cecile Andrews Publisher Comments Andrews analyzes the subtle consumer and political and corporate forces stamping the joy from life and provides a vision of a more fulfilling life through the rediscovery of caring community, unhurried leisure, and life-affirming joie de vivre.... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Good City & the Good Life: Renewing the Sense of Community by Daniel Kemmis Publisher Comments Daniel Kemmis is a successful politician, former Montana state legislator, and current second-term mayor of Missoula, Montana. He is rare among elected officials as a thoughtful interpreter of and commentator on the nature of citizenship and political... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns can Change to Sustainable Practices by Sarah James Publisher Comments Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communitiesprovides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains how... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $22.14 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Toward Sustainable Communities: Transition and Transformations in Environmental Policy (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) by Daniel A Mazmanian Publisher Comments This book reviews and assesses environmental policy over the past three decades—primarily in the United States but with implications for other nations. The editors place U.S. environmental policy within the framework of the transition from 1970s... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Natural Step for Communities: How Cities and Towns Can Change to Sustainable Practices by Sarah James Publisher Comments Sustainability may seem like one more buzzword and cities and towns like the last places to change, but The Natural Step for Communities provides inspiring examples of communities that have made dramatic changes toward sustainability and explains how... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Sun Living: Developing Neighborhoods with a One Planet Footprint by Wil Mayhew Publisher Comments If everyone in the world lived as most North Americans do, we would need five planets to support us. SuN LIVING demonstrates a practical approach to creating neighborhoods where people enjoy a high quality of life while living within their fair share of... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Superbia!: Thirty-One Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods by Dan Chiras and Dave Wann Publisher Comments Superbia! 31 Ways to Create Sustainable Neighborhoods is book of practical possibilities. It contains 31 innovative ways citizens, working cooperatively with their neighbors, can transform their neighborhoods — both urban and suburban — to... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Ecovillages by Jan Martin Bang Publisher Comments Ecovillages have arisen around the world in response to the social fragmentation of modern life and its alienation from nature. They provide a variety of ways of living in community with others and with nature and are linked worldwide through the Global... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $13.00 Used - Trade Paper
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An Unreal Estate: Sustainability and Freedom in an Evolving Community by Lucinda Carspecken Publisher Comments In An Unreal Estate, Lucinda Carspecken takes an in-depth look at Lothlorien, a Southern Indiana nature sanctuary, sustainable camping ground, festival site, collective residence, and experiment in ecological building, stewardship, and organization... (read more) List Price $23.95 Your price: $16.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Speaking Green with a Southern Accent: Environmental Management and Innovation in the South by Gerald Emison Publisher Comments The nation's environmental policy approaches and methods are becoming more flexible and diverse, with state governments composing the fulcrum of policy changes. Southern environmental politics and policy are especially valuable when considering a... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $35.00 Used - Hardcover
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Civic Environmentalism: Alternatives to Regulation in States & Communities by Dewitt Jonh TOC New directions for environmental policy and politics -- Beyond regulation -- An overview of state environmental policy -- Doing things in the right order--reducing the use of agricultural chemicals in Iowa -- Leadership in the Everglades--the politics of... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $1.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Drylands of Africa Local Participation in Tree Management by Edmund G C Barrow Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 249-261) and index.... (read more) Your price: $45.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Reading the Rangeland a Guide To the Arid Shrublands of Western Australia by Don Burnside Description Includes bibliographical references (p. 140) and indexes.... (read more) Your price: $30.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Growing Eco-Communities: Practical Ways to Create Sustainability by Jan Martin Bang Publisher Comments An examination of how human communities grow and develop from their original plans, through the Pioneering, Maturity and Stability, and Old Age phases. This book provides a comprehensive overview of the different changes that groups can undergo and... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $17.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Managing Growth in America's Communities by Douglas R Porter Publisher Comments Communities across the country are turning to the concept of "growth management" to help plan for the future, as they seek to control the location, impact, character and timing of development in order to balance environmental and economic needs and... (read more) List Price $50.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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