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  • Building Community Food Webs

    by Ken Meter ...
    Our current food system has decimated rural communities and confined the choices of urban consumers. Even while America continues to ramp up farm production to astounding levels, net farm income is now lower than at the onset of the Great Depression, and one out of every eight Americans faces hunger. But a healthier and more equitable food system is possible. In Building Community Food Webs, Ken ... Read more

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    Building Community Food Webs

    by Ken Meter ...
    Narrated by Patrick Lawlor ...

    Unabridged

    9 hours 51 min

    In Building Community Food Webs, Ken Meter shows how grassroots food and farming leaders across the US are tackling these challenges by constructing civic networks. Overturning extractive economic structures, these inspired leaders are engaging low-income residents, farmers, and local organizations in their quest to build stronger communities.Community food webs strive to build health, wealth, ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Food System Assessment

    Lessons from Global Practice

    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    Sustainable Food System Assessment provides both practical and theoretical insights about the growing interest in and response to measuring food system sustainability. Bringing together research from the Global North and South, this book shares lessons learned, explores intended and actual project outcomes, and highlights points of conceptual and methodological convergence.Interest in assessing ... Read more

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  • Advancing Environmental Education Practice

    Series series Cornell Series in Environmental Education
    In this important intervention, change-agent Marianne E. Krasny challenges the knowledge-attitudes-behavior pathway that underpins much of environmental education practice; i.e., the assumption that environmental knowledge and attitudes lead to environmental behaviors. Krasny shows that certain types of knowledge are more likely than others to influence behaviors, and that generally it is more ... Read more

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  • Life of Inland Waters

    An Elementary Text Book of Fresh-Water Biology For Students

    This work is a textbook of fresh-water life dealing with its forms, its conditions, its fitnesses, its associations, and its economic aspects. The ecologic side of fresh-water biology is emphasized. Due consideration is given to the educational, economic, sanitary, social, civic, and aesthetic aspects of the subject.Limnology in America today is in its infancy. The value of its past achievements ... Read more

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    A Guide for Educators

    Series series Cornell Series in Environmental Education
    Environmental educators face a formidable challenge when they approach climate change due to the complexity of the science and of the political and cultural contexts in which people live. There is a clear consensus among climate scientists that climate change is already occurring as a result of human activities, but high levels of climate change awareness and growing levels of concern have not ... Read more

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    BioCoder is a quarterly newsletter for DIYbio, synthetic bio, and anything related. You’ll discover:Articles about interesting projects and experiments, such as the glowing plantArticles about tools, both those you buy and those you buildVisits to DIYbio laboratoriesProfiles of key people in the communityAnnouncements of events and other items of interestSafety pointers and tips about good ... Read more

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    by Lewis Carroll ...
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    by Scope ...
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    Biodiversity Change and Human Health brings together leading experts from the natural science and social science realms as well as the medical community to explore the explicit linkages between human-driven alterations of biodiversity and documented impacts of those changes on human health. The book utilizes multidisciplinary approaches to explore and address the complex interplay between natural ... Read more

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    by Mike Barlow ...
    Technology does not exist in a vacuum. In the same way that a plant needs water and nourishment to grow, technology needs people and process to thrive and succeed. Culture (i.e., people and process) is integral and critical to the success of any new technology deployment or implementation.Big data is not just a technology phenomenon. It has a cultural dimension. It's vitally important to remember ... Read more

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