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Affiche du document Essential Composting Toilets — Essential Composting Toilets
Ann Baird
2h12min45
Bricolage et décoration
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177 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h13min.
From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems. Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings. Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes: Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos Coverage of all main composting toilet systems Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details Design and installation details. Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Safe Composting Chapter 3: System Components and Processes Chapter 4: Design Considerations Chapter 5: Commode Batch Systems Chapter 6: Chambered/Moldering Batch Systems Chapter 7: Continuous Systems Chapter 8: Fluid Management Chapter 9: Best Practices Chapter 10: The Last Flush Appendix A: Percolation Test Procedure Appendix B: Manufacturers Glossary References Index About the Author A Note About the Publisher

Essential Composting Toilets
Ann Baird
2h12min45
Bricolage et décoration
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177 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h13min.
From wastestream to mainstream, a practical guide to composting toilet systems. Composting toilets are a key feature for local resilience, money saving, water conservation, resource recovery, septic system replacement, and an improved bathroom experience in rural and urban buildings. Essential Composting Toilets is a streamlined manual that takes a practical, how-to approach to composting toilet system selection, design, installation, and operation, while meeting universal health and safety objectives. Drawing from existing regulations and research, this book dispels myths and provides tools to assess various systems. It includes: Easily-understood drawings, plans, and photos Coverage of all main composting toilet systems Selection criteria including site considerations, urine separation pros/cons, renovations/new builds, ventilation, servicing, and composting details Design and installation details. Offering a professional approach accessible to DIYers, homeowners, designers, building consultants, water conservation advocates, and regulators, Essential Composting Toilets provides key information for redesigning toilet systems anywhere in the world.Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Safe Composting Chapter 3: System Components and Processes Chapter 4: Design Considerations Chapter 5: Commode Batch Systems Chapter 6: Chambered/Moldering Batch Systems Chapter 7: Continuous Systems Chapter 8: Fluid Management Chapter 9: Best Practices Chapter 10: The Last Flush Appendix A: Percolation Test Procedure Appendix B: Manufacturers Glossary References Index About the Author A Note About the Publisher

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Affiche du document The Aging of Aquarius — The Aging of Aquarius
Helen Wilkes
1h35min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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127 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h35min.
Live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder Live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder. Your career has wound down, the kids have moved, and your schedule is clear...for the next 30 years. In your youth, you cared about people and planet earth, and you had grand visions of changing the world. At some point, those passions and that sense of purpose got buried under diapers and the 9-5. Still, that old you remains alive. Now, with the rest of your life ahead, you can be the change and make this next stage of your life the most powerful yet. But where to start? Helen Wilkes, a retired professor and activist, takes readers on an inspiring journey to find renewed purpose in retirement. Along the way she helps readers navigate the transition to a post-work identity by fanning the embers of lost passions and developing new interests. Whether you are drawn to gardening clubs, to social justice issues, political campaigning, ethical investing, or creativity through the arts, The Aging of Aquarius offers inspiration, practical steps, and extra resources to help reignite your passion, your sense of purpose, and to effect real change in the world as an empowered elder. Preface Diving In Stepping into the Void Facing Emptiness The Better New Days The Unmapped Road Detoxing What Didn't Happen Digging Deep for the Unique Throwing Open the Shutters Fostering Well-Being Discovering The Care and Feeding of Curiosity Creating Circles of Connectivity Cultivating Compassion Choosing Happiness Daring Reaching Out Embracing Travel Shedding Cultural Baggage Finding Balance and Hope Delving Deeper No Easy Answers Who Are You? Spiritual Speculation Deeper Still Feeling Gratitude Having No Regrets Facing Death with Equanimity Yielding to the Inevitable Notes Index About the Author A Note about the Publisher

The Aging of Aquarius
Helen Wilkes
1h35min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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127 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h35min.
Live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder Live your passion and purpose and change the world as an empowered elder. Your career has wound down, the kids have moved, and your schedule is clear...for the next 30 years. In your youth, you cared about people and planet earth, and you had grand visions of changing the world. At some point, those passions and that sense of purpose got buried under diapers and the 9-5. Still, that old you remains alive. Now, with the rest of your life ahead, you can be the change and make this next stage of your life the most powerful yet. But where to start? Helen Wilkes, a retired professor and activist, takes readers on an inspiring journey to find renewed purpose in retirement. Along the way she helps readers navigate the transition to a post-work identity by fanning the embers of lost passions and developing new interests. Whether you are drawn to gardening clubs, to social justice issues, political campaigning, ethical investing, or creativity through the arts, The Aging of Aquarius offers inspiration, practical steps, and extra resources to help reignite your passion, your sense of purpose, and to effect real change in the world as an empowered elder. Preface Diving In Stepping into the Void Facing Emptiness The Better New Days The Unmapped Road Detoxing What Didn't Happen Digging Deep for the Unique Throwing Open the Shutters Fostering Well-Being Discovering The Care and Feeding of Curiosity Creating Circles of Connectivity Cultivating Compassion Choosing Happiness Daring Reaching Out Embracing Travel Shedding Cultural Baggage Finding Balance and Hope Delving Deeper No Easy Answers Who Are You? Spiritual Speculation Deeper Still Feeling Gratitude Having No Regrets Facing Death with Equanimity Yielding to the Inevitable Notes Index About the Author A Note about the Publisher

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Affiche du document An Economy of Well-Being — An Economy of Well-Being
Mark Anielski
1h56min15
Economie
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155 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h56min.
Co-op Available Features offered to: Millennial Money, Green Business, Forbes Excerpts offered to: Green America, Yes! Magazine Advertising in: Green America, Green Business Promoted through author's website: www.anielski.com Promotion to: Net Impact and Global Happiness Alliance members Galley available on Edelweiss Academic mailing to MBA professors Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements and workshops Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Award winning author of the Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth The author has travelled and lectured extensively giving lectures on the economics of happiness in Canada, US, Europe, China, Australia, French Polynesia Anielski is an economic strategist specializing in the economics of well-being. Anielski recently co-founded the Centre for Integrated Finance and Economics which focuses on developing new impact investment analytic tools with an asset and well-being lens. The Economy of Well-being examines the stories of what individuals, families, businesses, nonprofit enterprises, communities, and financial institutions can and are doing to implement an economic lifestyle that is based on achieving a flourishing life of well-being and enduring happiness A compelling and practical model and guide for a new form of capitalism that seeks to achieve the highest and best use of human, social natural, built, and financial assets. Ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning. Anielski has been approached by Netflix to produce a series following the author to places in the world where he has been helping sow the seeds for a new economy of well-being. Anielski is President and Chief Well-being Officer of Anielski Management Inc., and consults and speaks internationally on merging and measuring happiness, well-being, and economics. Intended audience: young business leaders, entrepreneurs, and students interested in adopting a different business ethic and paradigm to managing their lives International MarketAuthor's previous book sold well in China, Netherlands, UK, Australia and New ZealandCountries which are actively working on a national happiness index include:Bhutan, Tahiti, Egypt, Solvenia and RomaniaAuthor has an international reputation and has lectured in China and AustriaAuthor has been a happiness advisory to the government of Bhutan since 2007Help build a world based on flourishing well-being for both the human family and nature In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics? In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical guide for building a new economy of well-being to help communities and nations become more flourishing and happier places to live. In this follow-up to his best-selling The Economics of Happiness, Anielski addresses key questions including: How can our personal and family assets be strengthened for a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose? How can neighborhoods and cities become flourishing economies of well-being by making the best of abundant community assets? how can organizations, communities and financial institutions measure, manage and finance assets to achieve high levels of well-being? An Economy of Well-being responds to a common yearning for common-sense tools to orient our lives, our businesses, and our communities towards well-being. This is ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning.List of Figures Foreword Introduction: A New Economic Paradigm Based on Well-Being 1. Reclaiming Economics for Happiness Reclaiming the Language of Economics Happiness: Well-Being of Spirit A New Index of Well-Being Measuring Well-Being Objectively Alberta's Economic Growth, Disease and Income Inequality Exposing the Myth of Productivity Measuring Happiness is All the Rage People Prefer Happiness Over Wealth Who Are the Happiest Canadians of All? Happiness as the Ultimate Objective of Economic Development From Financial Capitalism to Well-Being Drowning in Debt The Inconvenient Truth: How the Hidden Costs of Debt are Killing American Happiness The Path Ahead 2. A Roadmap to Well-Being Can Well-Being Be Measured? The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being The Util: Measuring Real Utility Without Virtue, Happiness Cannot Be The Five Capital Assets of Well-Being Well-Being Accounts The Five-Assets Sustainable Livelihood Model for Measuring Assets The Well-Being Economy and UN Sustainable Development Goals Well-Being-Based Governments 3. Bhutan, Edmonton and Alberta: Models of Well-Being Economics Back to Edmonton: The City that Could The Promise of Alberta Alberta's Preliminary Asset Accounts 4. The Well-Being Community The Edmonton Social Health Index Measuring the Well-Being of Valleyview, Alberta Edmonton's Well-Being Index and Measuring the Well-Being Return on Taxes Community Asset and Well-Being-Impact-Based Governance Well-Being-Based Governance and Budgeting Designing a New Economy of Well-Being for Tahiti (French Polynesia) 5. Well-Being for First Nations Measuring What Matters to Community Well-Being Why a Community Asset Assessment? Natural Capital Assessment The Well-Being Community Planning Process Benefits of a Well-Being-Based Approach to Community Development 6. The Well-Being Workplace Well-Being at Work Businesses That Operate on Well-Being Principles The Well-Being Corporation Doing Well By Doing Good: The Flourishing Well-Being Enterprise Well-Being: The Best Interest of Business A Corporate Culture of Well-Being Well-Being By Design 7. Accounting for Enterprise Well-Being The Origins of Auditing Toward Quality-of-Life Auditing and Accounting Well-Being Inventory Five Assets of Enterprise Well-Being Measuring Workplace Well-Being Enterprise Well-Being Index True Pricing: Full-Cost Accounting Making the Business Case of Well-Being Asset Valuation and Verification with Well-Being in Mind 8. Well-Being Impact Investing Virtuous Financial Leadership Lintel Capital LLC: Investment for Good Well-Being Impact Investment Funds And the Times, They are a-Changin' 9. The Community Asset Well-Being Fund Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation 10. Banking on Well-Being All Roads Lead to London: The Queen's Banker's Wife Freeing Economies of the Burden of Interest from Debt-Based Money A Public Bank for Well-Being What is a Public Bank and Could It be Structured to support the Economy of Well-being? The Bank of North Dakota and ATB (Alberta Treasury Branch): The Most Important Public Banks in North America Alberta Treasury Branch: North America's Best Kept Secret Why Could ATB Financial Become the Model for Public Well-Being Banks Across North America? The Future of Money: Well-Being Currency 11. Personal Well-Being Well-Being is a Choice Money, Your Life and Happiness Epilogue Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

An Economy of Well-Being
Mark Anielski
1h56min15
Economie
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155 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h56min.
Co-op Available Features offered to: Millennial Money, Green Business, Forbes Excerpts offered to: Green America, Yes! Magazine Advertising in: Green America, Green Business Promoted through author's website: www.anielski.com Promotion to: Net Impact and Global Happiness Alliance members Galley available on Edelweiss Academic mailing to MBA professors Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements and workshops Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Award winning author of the Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth The author has travelled and lectured extensively giving lectures on the economics of happiness in Canada, US, Europe, China, Australia, French Polynesia Anielski is an economic strategist specializing in the economics of well-being. Anielski recently co-founded the Centre for Integrated Finance and Economics which focuses on developing new impact investment analytic tools with an asset and well-being lens. The Economy of Well-being examines the stories of what individuals, families, businesses, nonprofit enterprises, communities, and financial institutions can and are doing to implement an economic lifestyle that is based on achieving a flourishing life of well-being and enduring happiness A compelling and practical model and guide for a new form of capitalism that seeks to achieve the highest and best use of human, social natural, built, and financial assets. Ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning. Anielski has been approached by Netflix to produce a series following the author to places in the world where he has been helping sow the seeds for a new economy of well-being. Anielski is President and Chief Well-being Officer of Anielski Management Inc., and consults and speaks internationally on merging and measuring happiness, well-being, and economics. Intended audience: young business leaders, entrepreneurs, and students interested in adopting a different business ethic and paradigm to managing their lives International MarketAuthor's previous book sold well in China, Netherlands, UK, Australia and New ZealandCountries which are actively working on a national happiness index include:Bhutan, Tahiti, Egypt, Solvenia and RomaniaAuthor has an international reputation and has lectured in China and AustriaAuthor has been a happiness advisory to the government of Bhutan since 2007Help build a world based on flourishing well-being for both the human family and nature In the face of political, financial, and environmental upheaval, it's difficult to slow down and build lives of mindfulness and joy. These things are within reach, but how can we go about creating a new world, using common-sense economics? In An Economy of Well-being, author Mark Anielski presents a practical guide for building a new economy of well-being to help communities and nations become more flourishing and happier places to live. In this follow-up to his best-selling The Economics of Happiness, Anielski addresses key questions including: How can our personal and family assets be strengthened for a more fulfilling life of meaning and purpose? How can neighborhoods and cities become flourishing economies of well-being by making the best of abundant community assets? how can organizations, communities and financial institutions measure, manage and finance assets to achieve high levels of well-being? An Economy of Well-being responds to a common yearning for common-sense tools to orient our lives, our businesses, and our communities towards well-being. This is ideal reading for anyone who wishes to contribute to building happier, more mindful communities, and ultimately lives of joy and meaning.List of Figures Foreword Introduction: A New Economic Paradigm Based on Well-Being 1. Reclaiming Economics for Happiness Reclaiming the Language of Economics Happiness: Well-Being of Spirit A New Index of Well-Being Measuring Well-Being Objectively Alberta's Economic Growth, Disease and Income Inequality Exposing the Myth of Productivity Measuring Happiness is All the Rage People Prefer Happiness Over Wealth Who Are the Happiest Canadians of All? Happiness as the Ultimate Objective of Economic Development From Financial Capitalism to Well-Being Drowning in Debt The Inconvenient Truth: How the Hidden Costs of Debt are Killing American Happiness The Path Ahead 2. A Roadmap to Well-Being Can Well-Being Be Measured? The Science of Well-Being: What We Measure Affects What We Do Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs and an Indigenous Model of Well-Being The Util: Measuring Real Utility Without Virtue, Happiness Cannot Be The Five Capital Assets of Well-Being Well-Being Accounts The Five-Assets Sustainable Livelihood Model for Measuring Assets The Well-Being Economy and UN Sustainable Development Goals Well-Being-Based Governments 3. Bhutan, Edmonton and Alberta: Models of Well-Being Economics Back to Edmonton: The City that Could The Promise of Alberta Alberta's Preliminary Asset Accounts 4. The Well-Being Community The Edmonton Social Health Index Measuring the Well-Being of Valleyview, Alberta Edmonton's Well-Being Index and Measuring the Well-Being Return on Taxes Community Asset and Well-Being-Impact-Based Governance Well-Being-Based Governance and Budgeting Designing a New Economy of Well-Being for Tahiti (French Polynesia) 5. Well-Being for First Nations Measuring What Matters to Community Well-Being Why a Community Asset Assessment? Natural Capital Assessment The Well-Being Community Planning Process Benefits of a Well-Being-Based Approach to Community Development 6. The Well-Being Workplace Well-Being at Work Businesses That Operate on Well-Being Principles The Well-Being Corporation Doing Well By Doing Good: The Flourishing Well-Being Enterprise Well-Being: The Best Interest of Business A Corporate Culture of Well-Being Well-Being By Design 7. Accounting for Enterprise Well-Being The Origins of Auditing Toward Quality-of-Life Auditing and Accounting Well-Being Inventory Five Assets of Enterprise Well-Being Measuring Workplace Well-Being Enterprise Well-Being Index True Pricing: Full-Cost Accounting Making the Business Case of Well-Being Asset Valuation and Verification with Well-Being in Mind 8. Well-Being Impact Investing Virtuous Financial Leadership Lintel Capital LLC: Investment for Good Well-Being Impact Investment Funds And the Times, They are a-Changin' 9. The Community Asset Well-Being Fund Eliminating Poverty in Cincinnati within a Generation 10. Banking on Well-Being All Roads Lead to London: The Queen's Banker's Wife Freeing Economies of the Burden of Interest from Debt-Based Money A Public Bank for Well-Being What is a Public Bank and Could It be Structured to support the Economy of Well-being? The Bank of North Dakota and ATB (Alberta Treasury Branch): The Most Important Public Banks in North America Alberta Treasury Branch: North America's Best Kept Secret Why Could ATB Financial Become the Model for Public Well-Being Banks Across North America? The Future of Money: Well-Being Currency 11. Personal Well-Being Well-Being is a Choice Money, Your Life and Happiness Epilogue Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Affiche du document Changemakers — Changemakers
Fay Weller
1h40min30
Philosophie
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134 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h40min.
The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future. Authors are leaders in community social change and sustainability Fay Weller is a sustainability expert with an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Victoria. She studied the 'how' of transformative change using the Gulf Islands, B.C. as her research area.Mary Wilson has a PhD in curriculum theory and a MA in educational studiesA practical guide to social change and transformative learningUses storytelling as the key tool for social change and educationReal life stories of how ordinary people work together to change the worldStories of despair, economic decline, globalization, corporate control and climate change are transformed into new stories of success through small actions, community development and local economic growthAllows readers to see themselves as transformersGuides the reader through personal transformation that leads to societal changeOrganized into three sections: what is transformative change, examples of projects, and a mini-workshop guide AudienceSocial change activists, community builders, educators, economic development programs, sustainability leaders, transition town groups, faith-based groups engage in social changeInternational MarketAuthors have helped create a land ownership structure, the first of its kind in Canada, that designates a body of land as a "commons" based on the UK historical commons The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future. With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It's all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. Hope and action is the antidote. We each hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and cascade into large-scale social transformation. This is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now. The first section explores the idea of transformative change – what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning. From creating a citizen-powered community bus service, to winning the right to local food, to women hand-sculpting their own houses, the second section explores powerful stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings and transformed their lives, their communities, and wider society. In the final section, the authors provide a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change. We all have the power to create a more just and ecological society. We all have the power to be changemakers. Fay Weller is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist with a PhD. focused on social transformation. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC, with two sheep and numerous chickens. Mary Wilson is a facilitator, researcher, instructional designer, and activist with a Ph.D. in education. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC where they are restoring a home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran. Preface SECTION A: CHANGEMAKING1. A Tale of Egg and Agency 2. Transformation 3. Learning Change 4. The How of Change SECTION B: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS5. Sowing the Seeds of Change Thinking about Food Systems Changemakers' Food Stories 6. Walls and Roofs Thinking about Shelter Changemakers' Shelter Stories 7. Moving Forward Thinking about Transportation Changemakers' Transportation Stories 8. There is No Away Thinking about Waste Changemakers' Waste Stories 9. People Power Thinking about Energy Changemakers' Energy Stories 10. Cooperative Economics Thinking about Economics Changemakers' Economic Stories 11. From Analysis to Activism SECTION C: CHANGEMAKERS' MANUALIntroduction Session 1: Transformative Spaces Session 2: Learning Change Session 3: The Genesis of Ideas Session 4: From Spark to Action Session 5: Cross Purposes and Spirals Session 6: Linking with other Changemakers Session 7: Societal Change Facilitation Techniques References Index About the Authors About New Society Publishers

Changemakers
Fay Weller
1h40min30
Philosophie
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134 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h40min.
The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future. Authors are leaders in community social change and sustainability Fay Weller is a sustainability expert with an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Victoria. She studied the 'how' of transformative change using the Gulf Islands, B.C. as her research area.Mary Wilson has a PhD in curriculum theory and a MA in educational studiesA practical guide to social change and transformative learningUses storytelling as the key tool for social change and educationReal life stories of how ordinary people work together to change the worldStories of despair, economic decline, globalization, corporate control and climate change are transformed into new stories of success through small actions, community development and local economic growthAllows readers to see themselves as transformersGuides the reader through personal transformation that leads to societal changeOrganized into three sections: what is transformative change, examples of projects, and a mini-workshop guide AudienceSocial change activists, community builders, educators, economic development programs, sustainability leaders, transition town groups, faith-based groups engage in social changeInternational MarketAuthors have helped create a land ownership structure, the first of its kind in Canada, that designates a body of land as a "commons" based on the UK historical commons The guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now rather than wait for a pie-in-the-sky future. With every news report, the world seems to be careening off the rails. It's all too easy to slip into despair waiting for co-opted, self-serving governments to act. Hope and action is the antidote. We each hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and cascade into large-scale social transformation. This is the guidebook for ordinary people who want to create a new society now. The first section explores the idea of transformative change – what it is, what difference it makes, and how it is connected to learning. From creating a citizen-powered community bus service, to winning the right to local food, to women hand-sculpting their own houses, the second section explores powerful stories of everyday people who have challenged traditional understandings and transformed their lives, their communities, and wider society. In the final section, the authors provide a workbook to guide people, wherever they are, through the process of catalyzing change. We all have the power to create a more just and ecological society. We all have the power to be changemakers. Fay Weller is a community organizer, homesteader, researcher, and artist with a PhD. focused on social transformation. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC, with two sheep and numerous chickens. Mary Wilson is a facilitator, researcher, instructional designer, and activist with a Ph.D. in education. She and her partner live on Gabriola Island, BC where they are restoring a home, developing a permaculture food forest, and building an engineless catamaran. Preface SECTION A: CHANGEMAKING1. A Tale of Egg and Agency 2. Transformation 3. Learning Change 4. The How of Change SECTION B: STORIES AND REFLECTIONS5. Sowing the Seeds of Change Thinking about Food Systems Changemakers' Food Stories 6. Walls and Roofs Thinking about Shelter Changemakers' Shelter Stories 7. Moving Forward Thinking about Transportation Changemakers' Transportation Stories 8. There is No Away Thinking about Waste Changemakers' Waste Stories 9. People Power Thinking about Energy Changemakers' Energy Stories 10. Cooperative Economics Thinking about Economics Changemakers' Economic Stories 11. From Analysis to Activism SECTION C: CHANGEMAKERS' MANUALIntroduction Session 1: Transformative Spaces Session 2: Learning Change Session 3: The Genesis of Ideas Session 4: From Spark to Action Session 5: Cross Purposes and Spirals Session 6: Linking with other Changemakers Session 7: Societal Change Facilitation Techniques References Index About the Authors About New Society Publishers

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Affiche du document The Power Manual — The Power Manual
Cyndi Suarez
1h47min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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143 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h47min.
Co-op available Features in: Non-profit Quarterly Excerpts offered to: Black Scholar, Sojourners, Yes! Magazine, Tikkun; UTNE Reader; Lion's Roar Promotion on the author's website: www.cindisuarez.com Promotion in association with author's professional network including Hymarket People's Foundation; Kellogg Foundation, and Ford Foundation Promotions to BALLE and IDEO networks and other transformational networks Promotion in conjunction with the film, The New Story directed by Simon Dennis Promoted on the author's social media: Cindi Suarez on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Academic promotion at schools focusing on social research; Yale University and UC Santa Cruz history of consciousness program Galley available on Edelweiss Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and InstagramAuthor is a consultant who works with leaders in the non-profit, philanthropy and social movements including Black Lives Matter and Institution for Social Change She has a background in feminist theory and organizational development for social change She is the editor of Non-profit Quarterly, the leading non-profit journal The book proposed a new theory of power and how to work with it The key message is that power skills are learnable and power relationships can be transformed The author focuses on using games and theatre to investigate and learn about power transformation The activities focus on practising power and learning where power resides It explores major concepts of power with a focus on power dynamics and how to shift them It looks at the dynamics of domination and liberation and helps identify the way power is deployed The book is in four sections: identity, choice, thresholds and gamesAudience Leaders of nonprofits working for social change, social activists, business leaders, human relation managers and academics Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world.This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual:Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyondExamines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in societyPresents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one's actionsExplains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful onesHelps readers choose egalitarian interactions over dominationDemonstrates mastering the process of power expansionFeatures workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations.This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.IntroductionSection OnePOWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless Identities Power + Identity Intro 1 | Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberator Power 2 | Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance 3 | Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects 4 | The Sources of Power RelationsDevelopmental Stages and Mind Forms 5 | Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power Section TwoPOWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice Power + Choice Intro 6 | Decision and ChoiceThe Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention7 | The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making 8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner ExperienceSection ThreePOWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self Power + Thresholds Intro9 | Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status CharactersSection FourPOWER + GAMES | Playing with Power Power + Games Intro11 | The Purpose of PlayPlay As Evolution12 | The Structure of GamesOrdering Interactions13 | The Party GameSign Reading14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel GameDeconstruction15 | The Tongue Twister GameReconstruction 16 | The Meisner GameReconstruction17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And GameSign Reading, Deconstruction18 | The Circle GameReconstruction 19 | The Lane GameReconstruction20 | The Body Language GameSign Reading21 | The Switching GameReconstruction22 | The Status Master GameSign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction 23 | The Scene Study GameDeconstruction24 | The Character Study GameReconstructionReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher

The Power Manual
Cyndi Suarez
1h47min15
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Co-op available Features in: Non-profit Quarterly Excerpts offered to: Black Scholar, Sojourners, Yes! Magazine, Tikkun; UTNE Reader; Lion's Roar Promotion on the author's website: www.cindisuarez.com Promotion in association with author's professional network including Hymarket People's Foundation; Kellogg Foundation, and Ford Foundation Promotions to BALLE and IDEO networks and other transformational networks Promotion in conjunction with the film, The New Story directed by Simon Dennis Promoted on the author's social media: Cindi Suarez on Twitter, Instagram and LinkedIn Academic promotion at schools focusing on social research; Yale University and UC Santa Cruz history of consciousness program Galley available on Edelweiss Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and InstagramAuthor is a consultant who works with leaders in the non-profit, philanthropy and social movements including Black Lives Matter and Institution for Social Change She has a background in feminist theory and organizational development for social change She is the editor of Non-profit Quarterly, the leading non-profit journal The book proposed a new theory of power and how to work with it The key message is that power skills are learnable and power relationships can be transformed The author focuses on using games and theatre to investigate and learn about power transformation The activities focus on practising power and learning where power resides It explores major concepts of power with a focus on power dynamics and how to shift them It looks at the dynamics of domination and liberation and helps identify the way power is deployed The book is in four sections: identity, choice, thresholds and gamesAudience Leaders of nonprofits working for social change, social activists, business leaders, human relation managers and academics Liberate yourself by understanding and mastering power dynamics All social relations are laden with power. Getting out from under dominant power relations and mastering power dynamics is perhaps the most essential skill for change agents across all sectors seeking to ignite positive change in the world.This concise action manual explores major concepts of power, with a focus on the dynamics of domination and liberation, and presents methods for shifting power relations and enacting freedom. The Power Manual:Clearly distills the major theories of power from post-modern and feminist theory to business management and developmental psychology, and beyondExamines key ways that power is deployed and transformed in societyPresents a new theory of power based on enactment-the bringing of something to life through one's actionsExplains how to refuse powerless identities and enact powerful onesHelps readers choose egalitarian interactions over dominationDemonstrates mastering the process of power expansionFeatures workshop games and group activities for identifying and shifting power relations.This accessible action manual is ideal for change agents, leaders, and activists across all nonprofit and business sectors aiming to understand, master, and shift power relations.IntroductionSection OnePOWER + IDENTITY | Refusing Powerless Identities Power + Identity Intro 1 | Effective InteractionsSupremacist Power and Liberator Power 2 | Interaction PatternsPatterns of Domination and Patterns of Resistance 3 | Transmission of AffectLife-affirming and Life-draining Affects 4 | The Sources of Power RelationsDevelopmental Stages and Mind Forms 5 | Powerless and Powerful IdentitiesHegemony and Supreme Power Section TwoPOWER + CHOICE | Triggering Choice Power + Choice Intro 6 | Decision and ChoiceThe Efficient Unconscious and the Effort of Intention7 | The Social Aspects of ChoiceParticipation in Decision Making 8 | Supreme ChoiceMastery Over Inner ExperienceSection ThreePOWER + THRESHOLDS | Creating the Self Power + Thresholds Intro9 | Rites of PassageSelf Formation in Liminal Space10 | Theater as Interaction and Identity CreationHigh Status and Low Status CharactersSection FourPOWER + GAMES | Playing with Power Power + Games Intro11 | The Purpose of PlayPlay As Evolution12 | The Structure of GamesOrdering Interactions13 | The Party GameSign Reading14 | The Stand, Sit, Kneel GameDeconstruction15 | The Tongue Twister GameReconstruction 16 | The Meisner GameReconstruction17 | The Yes, But/Yes, And GameSign Reading, Deconstruction18 | The Circle GameReconstruction 19 | The Lane GameReconstruction20 | The Body Language GameSign Reading21 | The Switching GameReconstruction22 | The Status Master GameSign Reading, Deconstruction, Reconstruction 23 | The Scene Study GameDeconstruction24 | The Character Study GameReconstructionReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher

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Affiche du document The Ever Curious Gardener — The Ever Curious Gardener
Lee Reich
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Unleash your inner geek and let this irreverent romp through the wonders of the garden yield practical results. The author has a PhD in horticulture from the University of Maryland and has over 40 years of experience in horticultural and agricultural research He is a former USDA agricultural scientist He has been a garden writer for over 35 years and is the author of seven previous books. He has several books on gardening and had a syndicated gardening column with Associated Press for 25 years He blogs at www.leereich.com/blog This book helps readers understand and use natural science concepts to grow a prettier, healthier, more flavourful and nutritious garden The ideas make gardening more fun and interesting The reader will find themselves becoming a "perennially young gardener" always learning and growingAudience Gardeners of all skill levels Curious and experimental types Life-long learnersInternational Market Written to have universal appeal to gardeners, no matter where they live Presented in a lovely 19th century fashion by recognized master gardener Excellent for gardening, natural history and gift marketUnleash your inner geek and let this irreverent romp through the wonders of the garden yield practical results.Curious why caressing your cucumber plants will help them bear more fruit? Or why you should grow oranges from seed even if the fruit is inedible? Or why trees need to sleep and how to help them?Join acclaimed gardener, scientist, and author Lee Reich on a journey through the delights of your garden in this laugh-out-loud treatise on the scientific wonders of plants and soil. Offering eye-opening insight and practical guidance, coverage includes: How to maximize both flavor and nutrition in your garden bounty Helping plants thrive during drought Outwitting weeds by understanding their nature Making the best use of compost Tips on pruning and orchard care Why the dead language of Latin can make you a better gardener.The Ever Curious Gardener is an irreverent romp through the natural science of plants and soil, ideal for newer gardeners moving beyond back-of-the-seed-pack planting to experienced gardeners whose curiosity at the wonders of cultivation grows deeper and stronger with each season.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPropagation and Planting • A bit of deception helps me get some seeds to sprout that under natural conditions would wisely stay asleep • Burial in tundra might be ideal for seed storage but I choose more practical storage for my vegetable and flower seeds • Electricity temporarily suffices when access to sunlight is lacking • In which the pre-plant toughening up of seedlings is shown to be necessary, but with a gentle touch • Plants exhibit all sorts of changes, some sought after, some not, as they go through puberty • A recommendation to plant citrus from seed even if fruit is improbable or not worth eating • Containing some of the ways in which I use a few or many plant cells to conjure up whole new plants • I revisit totipotence, using stems again, this time joining them to existing roots • Neither monstrous nor scary, but often beautiful - yes, real chimeras may be in our midst • Knowing that a bulb is, essentially, a stem lets me multiply them with the same "pinch" that makes stems branchSoil • In which we watch the progress of water traveling through soil, with methods to, at the same time, speed it up and slow it down • A common sense recommendation that turns out not to make sense • Contains a description and an opinion of hydroponics • In which I pay homage to humus, even though it may be a misnomer • Wherein I check my ground's acidity and then tweak it, as needed • On my ostensibly occult practice which turns out to be good gardening • How I manage to tame nitrogen's comings and goings for my plants • Even without squealing like hungry pigs, my plants can tell me if they're hungry, and for whatFlowering and Fruiting • Sex is introduced and its sometime importance is emphasized • In which I make right the products of plants' sexual excesses • Describing the importance of night for coaxing blossoms, and a gardener's trickery • In which a small gas molecule has a big effect on flavor • Contains a question and an answer: is hybrid always high-bred?Stems and Leaves • In which my thumbnails, pruning shears, and branch bending coax plants into bushiness, lankiness, or anything betwixt • Wherein I make designs with the traceries of my fruit plants' branches • Questioning the advice to put the brakes on tree growth with summer pruning • On the genesis, reason for, and propagation of weeping trees • A comfortable seat in a sunny spot gets trees and shrubs ready for winter... • In which it is demonstrated that buds are not boring • How buds become burls and witches' brooms • On entreating and helping trees to stay asleep • About a quick and easy way to hasten spring • Sunlight is important but sometimes shade offers improvementOrganizations • Wherein families migrate together around my garden, and for good reason • How plant families got put in order • On Latin being a foreign tongue but providing a useful understanding of plant relationships • Making up a new category name, fortunately, does not ruin flavor or appearance • Relating a true story about how my plants broke the lawStress • On steps, human and otherwise, to avoid the havoc of icy cells during frigid temperatures • In which hot days bring on a tug of war between hunger and thirst, in plants • No water, no matter - because I take these steps for drought • A very local search for congenial weather • Seedlings' transition to the garden is helped along with tough love, timely and not in excess • Unwanted plants - that is, weeds - are best understood before they are outwitted • A sometime threat that straddles the fence between living and nonliving • In which is clarified a name as a sign, rather than a symptom, of disease • Fire blight, first noted not far from my home over 200 years ago, has the honor of being the first plant disease to be caused by bacteriaSenses • In which I elucidate, abet, and alter the color of leaves, vegetables, and flowers • An Italian who tied together plant growth, art, and other things too innumerable to mention • Here I make sense of scents, equally so for insects and humans • The touch here is that felt by the plants • And finally, the efforts I take to grow the best tasting fruits and vegetablesEpilogue: The Scientific Method Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

The Ever Curious Gardener
Lee Reich
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Unleash your inner geek and let this irreverent romp through the wonders of the garden yield practical results. The author has a PhD in horticulture from the University of Maryland and has over 40 years of experience in horticultural and agricultural research He is a former USDA agricultural scientist He has been a garden writer for over 35 years and is the author of seven previous books. He has several books on gardening and had a syndicated gardening column with Associated Press for 25 years He blogs at www.leereich.com/blog This book helps readers understand and use natural science concepts to grow a prettier, healthier, more flavourful and nutritious garden The ideas make gardening more fun and interesting The reader will find themselves becoming a "perennially young gardener" always learning and growingAudience Gardeners of all skill levels Curious and experimental types Life-long learnersInternational Market Written to have universal appeal to gardeners, no matter where they live Presented in a lovely 19th century fashion by recognized master gardener Excellent for gardening, natural history and gift marketUnleash your inner geek and let this irreverent romp through the wonders of the garden yield practical results.Curious why caressing your cucumber plants will help them bear more fruit? Or why you should grow oranges from seed even if the fruit is inedible? Or why trees need to sleep and how to help them?Join acclaimed gardener, scientist, and author Lee Reich on a journey through the delights of your garden in this laugh-out-loud treatise on the scientific wonders of plants and soil. Offering eye-opening insight and practical guidance, coverage includes: How to maximize both flavor and nutrition in your garden bounty Helping plants thrive during drought Outwitting weeds by understanding their nature Making the best use of compost Tips on pruning and orchard care Why the dead language of Latin can make you a better gardener.The Ever Curious Gardener is an irreverent romp through the natural science of plants and soil, ideal for newer gardeners moving beyond back-of-the-seed-pack planting to experienced gardeners whose curiosity at the wonders of cultivation grows deeper and stronger with each season.AcknowledgmentsIntroductionPropagation and Planting • A bit of deception helps me get some seeds to sprout that under natural conditions would wisely stay asleep • Burial in tundra might be ideal for seed storage but I choose more practical storage for my vegetable and flower seeds • Electricity temporarily suffices when access to sunlight is lacking • In which the pre-plant toughening up of seedlings is shown to be necessary, but with a gentle touch • Plants exhibit all sorts of changes, some sought after, some not, as they go through puberty • A recommendation to plant citrus from seed even if fruit is improbable or not worth eating • Containing some of the ways in which I use a few or many plant cells to conjure up whole new plants • I revisit totipotence, using stems again, this time joining them to existing roots • Neither monstrous nor scary, but often beautiful - yes, real chimeras may be in our midst • Knowing that a bulb is, essentially, a stem lets me multiply them with the same "pinch" that makes stems branchSoil • In which we watch the progress of water traveling through soil, with methods to, at the same time, speed it up and slow it down • A common sense recommendation that turns out not to make sense • Contains a description and an opinion of hydroponics • In which I pay homage to humus, even though it may be a misnomer • Wherein I check my ground's acidity and then tweak it, as needed • On my ostensibly occult practice which turns out to be good gardening • How I manage to tame nitrogen's comings and goings for my plants • Even without squealing like hungry pigs, my plants can tell me if they're hungry, and for whatFlowering and Fruiting • Sex is introduced and its sometime importance is emphasized • In which I make right the products of plants' sexual excesses • Describing the importance of night for coaxing blossoms, and a gardener's trickery • In which a small gas molecule has a big effect on flavor • Contains a question and an answer: is hybrid always high-bred?Stems and Leaves • In which my thumbnails, pruning shears, and branch bending coax plants into bushiness, lankiness, or anything betwixt • Wherein I make designs with the traceries of my fruit plants' branches • Questioning the advice to put the brakes on tree growth with summer pruning • On the genesis, reason for, and propagation of weeping trees • A comfortable seat in a sunny spot gets trees and shrubs ready for winter... • In which it is demonstrated that buds are not boring • How buds become burls and witches' brooms • On entreating and helping trees to stay asleep • About a quick and easy way to hasten spring • Sunlight is important but sometimes shade offers improvementOrganizations • Wherein families migrate together around my garden, and for good reason • How plant families got put in order • On Latin being a foreign tongue but providing a useful understanding of plant relationships • Making up a new category name, fortunately, does not ruin flavor or appearance • Relating a true story about how my plants broke the lawStress • On steps, human and otherwise, to avoid the havoc of icy cells during frigid temperatures • In which hot days bring on a tug of war between hunger and thirst, in plants • No water, no matter - because I take these steps for drought • A very local search for congenial weather • Seedlings' transition to the garden is helped along with tough love, timely and not in excess • Unwanted plants - that is, weeds - are best understood before they are outwitted • A sometime threat that straddles the fence between living and nonliving • In which is clarified a name as a sign, rather than a symptom, of disease • Fire blight, first noted not far from my home over 200 years ago, has the honor of being the first plant disease to be caused by bacteriaSenses • In which I elucidate, abet, and alter the color of leaves, vegetables, and flowers • An Italian who tied together plant growth, art, and other things too innumerable to mention • Here I make sense of scents, equally so for insects and humans • The touch here is that felt by the plants • And finally, the efforts I take to grow the best tasting fruits and vegetablesEpilogue: The Scientific Method Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Affiche du document Freedom to Learn — Freedom to Learn
Cari Williams
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Santé et bien-être
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Co-op Available Features offered to: American Journal of Education, Psychology Today Excerpts offered to: Action in Teacher Education , Scholastic Parent & Child, Teach Magazine Academic promotion to Educational Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Psychology departments Promotion to members of the National Education Society Galley available on Edelweiss Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Ditch the behavioral charts and start teaching for universal success Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don't work. Teachers are burning out and students are failing. But what can be done? The secret lies in a unique combination of behavioral science, neuropsychology, and group dynamics. When teachers get the classroom experience right, students want to succeed and achieve to their potential, while behavioral problems largely vanish. For decades, it has been widely accepted that children have motivating needs including the need to avoid pain, a need for autonomy, and the need to belong. The authors harness these motivations into a method of interactions that increases cooperation, and in which children want to succeed and help others to thrive. Packed with real classroom examples and practical guidance for using the methods, this guide gives teachers the tools to transform even difficult classrooms. Start teaching for universal success in classroom management and academic accomplishments. Preface Chapter One: Students Reaching Their Potential A Small Beginning for New Methods Summary Chapter Two: Understanding Human Behavior Question and Answer Summary Chapter Three: Teaching Is a Group Activity First Fundamental: A Common Purpose Second Fundamental: Teachers as Leaders Third Fundamental: Anything That Affects One Student, Affects Everyone Fourth Fundamental: Use an Interactive Process That Develops Cooperation Fifth Fundamental: Events May Have Different Effects When They Occur in a Group of Peers Question and Answer Summary Chapter Four: Methods for Creating Successful Classrooms The Motivational Process Using Positive Motivation Distributing Praise Differential Social Attention: The Most Important Process Students Soliciting Praise Problem Behavior Competing Reinforcers The Teacher-Student Relationship Application in Upper Grades Reading to Students Developing Attributes Chapter Review Question and Answer Chapter Five: Building Successful Groups Differences in Upper Grades Question and Answer Chapter Six: Developing Effective Learners Developing Higher Academic Functions The Academic Gap Between Students Question and Answer Summary Chapter Seven: Coercion and Positive Alternatives in Classrooms Systems of Warnings and Consequences Group Punishment The Happy/Sad Face Chart The Home Note The Purple Card System Positive Alternatives Creative Solutions for Problem Behavior Creating a Positive Culture Question and Answer Chapter Eight: Dealing with Extreme Behavior Emotion First, Behavior Second De-escalation of Emotional Responses Logical Consequences Using Timeouts Using Reprimands Properly Classrooms for Students with Extreme Behavior Disorders Question and Answer Summary Chapter Nine: Implementation and Training Review of Methods Annotated Bibliography Index About the Authors A Note about the Publisher

Freedom to Learn
Cari Williams
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Co-op Available Features offered to: American Journal of Education, Psychology Today Excerpts offered to: Action in Teacher Education , Scholastic Parent & Child, Teach Magazine Academic promotion to Educational Psychology, Early Childhood Education, Psychology departments Promotion to members of the National Education Society Galley available on Edelweiss Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Ditch the behavioral charts and start teaching for universal success Disinterested students and behavioral problems are all too common in schools. Yet results show that behavior charts and other reward-and-punishment systems simply don't work. Teachers are burning out and students are failing. But what can be done? The secret lies in a unique combination of behavioral science, neuropsychology, and group dynamics. When teachers get the classroom experience right, students want to succeed and achieve to their potential, while behavioral problems largely vanish. For decades, it has been widely accepted that children have motivating needs including the need to avoid pain, a need for autonomy, and the need to belong. The authors harness these motivations into a method of interactions that increases cooperation, and in which children want to succeed and help others to thrive. Packed with real classroom examples and practical guidance for using the methods, this guide gives teachers the tools to transform even difficult classrooms. Start teaching for universal success in classroom management and academic accomplishments. Preface Chapter One: Students Reaching Their Potential A Small Beginning for New Methods Summary Chapter Two: Understanding Human Behavior Question and Answer Summary Chapter Three: Teaching Is a Group Activity First Fundamental: A Common Purpose Second Fundamental: Teachers as Leaders Third Fundamental: Anything That Affects One Student, Affects Everyone Fourth Fundamental: Use an Interactive Process That Develops Cooperation Fifth Fundamental: Events May Have Different Effects When They Occur in a Group of Peers Question and Answer Summary Chapter Four: Methods for Creating Successful Classrooms The Motivational Process Using Positive Motivation Distributing Praise Differential Social Attention: The Most Important Process Students Soliciting Praise Problem Behavior Competing Reinforcers The Teacher-Student Relationship Application in Upper Grades Reading to Students Developing Attributes Chapter Review Question and Answer Chapter Five: Building Successful Groups Differences in Upper Grades Question and Answer Chapter Six: Developing Effective Learners Developing Higher Academic Functions The Academic Gap Between Students Question and Answer Summary Chapter Seven: Coercion and Positive Alternatives in Classrooms Systems of Warnings and Consequences Group Punishment The Happy/Sad Face Chart The Home Note The Purple Card System Positive Alternatives Creative Solutions for Problem Behavior Creating a Positive Culture Question and Answer Chapter Eight: Dealing with Extreme Behavior Emotion First, Behavior Second De-escalation of Emotional Responses Logical Consequences Using Timeouts Using Reprimands Properly Classrooms for Students with Extreme Behavior Disorders Question and Answer Summary Chapter Nine: Implementation and Training Review of Methods Annotated Bibliography Index About the Authors A Note about the Publisher

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Affiche du document Mudgirls Manifesto — Mudgirls Manifesto
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Co-op Available Features offered to: Mother Earth News, UTNE, Inhabitat Excerpts offered to The Last Straw, YES! Magazine, Communities Advertising in: Mother Earth News, The Last Straw Promoted through authors' social media: Facebook page with over 5,000 followers Promotion to: natural building schools, Habitat for Humanity Book tour: Pacific Northwest Galley available on Edelweiss Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Building a Revolution, one handful at a time. In the face of widespread burnout and a world gone crazy, how do we find things to say "yes" to, rather than a resounding "no"? On North America's West Coast, there's a group of rebel women who ten years ago chose to break free from a rigged economic and social system. They didn't take to the streets to lobby banks and governments to change their ways - they didn't have time for that. They had babies to feed and house. They reckoned that if nobody else was going to change the rules to support basic human needs and respect the biosphere, then we are all free to make our own rules. They chose action. They decided to teach themselves how to build houses using the most abundant material on earth - mud. They'd learn by building, gathering skills and allies. They'd have fun, sharing whatever they learned with whoever wanted to come along for the ride. The Mudgirls revolution was born. Part story of rebel women, grassroots self-governance, and community-building, part incendiary political and economic tract, and part practical guide to building natural homes for real people. Mudgirls Manifesto is about respecting the earth, each other, and crafting meaningful lives. A powerful, positive antidote to troubled times.Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: A HISTORY WRITTEN IN MUD Chapter 1: Our Ways of Building Guiding Principle: We mostly work with unprocessed natural and recycled materials to create and decorate beautiful and healthy structures that are earth friendly. Guiding Principle: We believe this work is so important that we cannot wait until we are all experts. No matter the level of experience, we value each individual for their contribution and abilities and believe strongly in skill-building on the worksite. We Went for It: Creating the World We Wanted to Live In The Measuring Tape: Skill-Building as a Priority. A Non-intimidating Approach to Building Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Permits = Limits Messages from Mud: It's Not About How Much You Know, But How Much You Believe in What You're Doing Case Studies: Ray and Soozie's Place; Measure Twice, Think Three Times, Cut Once, Because Chainsaws Are Forever Chapter 2: Women's Work Guiding Principle: We are a women's collective and seek to empower ourselves with employment and the skills to build homes. No Boys Allowed: Why We Chose (and Still Choose) An All-woman Crew We Play With Dollies: Work Smarter Not Harder Our Heroines: Other Women that Are Rockin' the Natural Building World and Shattering the Status Quo: Athena Steen, Liz Johndrow, and Becky Bee We Love Dudes: And Dudes Love Us Case Studies: Chris's Contribution; Set the Men Free; No, Really, She's Doing It; Contribution from Todd Turik (One Man Among Many Women) Chapter 3: Rethinking Work Guiding Principle: We are a collective that is human friendly: we recreate our concepts of work to prioritize respect and care for our hearts, our bodies, and our children while we work together. We create a work environment that nurtures us. Large and in Charge: The Empowerment Inherent in Working for Oneself It's Our Worksite, and We'll Cry If We Want To: Allowing Space for Emotions, Needs, and Limitations on the Worksite Bigger Isn't Always Better: Dealing with the Expectations of of Conventional "Efficiency" Versus the Efficiencies Long-term Learning, Safety, Skill-sharing, and Community-building Baby, I Like It Raw: Maintaining the Connection with Raw Materials and Raw Power Case Studies: Ode to the Old: Hand Tools and Handy Elders Soul Food: Nurturing Our Bodies Recipies: Smoked Tofu Potato Salad; Bethany's Rice Pudding; Coconut Curried Lentils; Energy Balls Chapter 4: Caring for the Children Guiding Principle: All our events are child and parentfriendly with quality childcare always provided. Our Kids Are Your Kids: A Better Model for the Greater Good Take Your Child to Work Day, Every Day: Why Mandatory, Built-in Childcare Makes Sense, and Why It's Not Always Perfect The Children of the Revolution: Children as Active Members of the Community Case Studies: How the Inner Child Schooled the Adult Attitude: Youth Facilitation as a Non-parent; That One Time I Almost Lost My Kids and My Mind, and the Silly Play That Saved Us All; Life After Motherhood; Participant/Mother Contribution Chapter 5: Rethinking "Business" Guiding Principle: We seek to do our business in a non-capitalist spirit. We keep the cost of natural building affordable by keeping our wages low, offering our workshops for barter, building for low-income people as much as we can. Ménage à Trois: The Breakdown of Our Workshop Structure How Much Is Too Much?: The Quest to Practice Sustainable Idealism Who Needs Money When There's Mud Everywhere?: A Low Income Plus Resourcefulness Equals Creative Power Client-friends and Friend-clients: Keeping a Healthy Building Relationship Without Contracts Case Studies: Molly's House; Trade Ya a Small House for a Website? Chapter 6: Who's the Boss? Guiding Principle: We are structured non-hierarchically. Each member is equally valued and has equal say in decision-making. Guiding Principle: We use the teachings of Compassionate Communication to create a peaceful, mutually respectful, and revolutionarily harmonious group process. The Internal Workings of The Mudgirls: How We Make Decisions Don't Tell Me What to Do Mycorrhiza: A Symbiosis Inspired by Nature Keeps the Collective Rollin' Case Studies: The Voice of Dissent, and How We Hate to Love It; A Model of Our (Ideal) Steps to Resolve Conflict Chapter 7: Building a Revolution Guiding Principle: We work together to create this collective as we go, nurturing the creative and inventive and courageously open to the process of transformation. Build It and They Will Come: The Search for Other Ways of Living Don't Muddy the Waters: Trying to Live by Example Case Studies: Our Collective's Babies: Mudmob in Australia and The Good Earth Builders PART II: THANKS TIPS! (PRACTICAL BUILDING MATTERS) Chapter 8: Materials and Tools Clay Sourcing Tips How to Test Your Clay Sand, Sand, and Sand Fiber Lumber Mud Tools Woodworking Tools What Trowel to Use and Why Chapter 9: Recipes Clay Paint Recipes That Work Paint #1 Paint #2 Pigment Adhesion Coats Lime Water, Lime Wash Starch Paste (Wheat Paste) Plasters Manure Plaster Clay Plaster Lime Plaster Chapter 10: Tips to Success (We Screwed Up and Learned Stuff) Dry Stack Rock Foundation Tips Dry Stack Rock Foundations for Straw Bale Walls How to Fix Cracks Why Cob Walls Fall Wall Systems Pros and Cons Build Your House in Ten Steps! Endnotes Index About the Author A Note about the Publisher

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Co-op Available Features offered to: Mother Earth News, UTNE, Inhabitat Excerpts offered to The Last Straw, YES! Magazine, Communities Advertising in: Mother Earth News, The Last Straw Promoted through authors' social media: Facebook page with over 5,000 followers Promotion to: natural building schools, Habitat for Humanity Book tour: Pacific Northwest Galley available on Edelweiss Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, our blog, Pinterest, and Instagram Building a Revolution, one handful at a time. In the face of widespread burnout and a world gone crazy, how do we find things to say "yes" to, rather than a resounding "no"? On North America's West Coast, there's a group of rebel women who ten years ago chose to break free from a rigged economic and social system. They didn't take to the streets to lobby banks and governments to change their ways - they didn't have time for that. They had babies to feed and house. They reckoned that if nobody else was going to change the rules to support basic human needs and respect the biosphere, then we are all free to make our own rules. They chose action. They decided to teach themselves how to build houses using the most abundant material on earth - mud. They'd learn by building, gathering skills and allies. They'd have fun, sharing whatever they learned with whoever wanted to come along for the ride. The Mudgirls revolution was born. Part story of rebel women, grassroots self-governance, and community-building, part incendiary political and economic tract, and part practical guide to building natural homes for real people. Mudgirls Manifesto is about respecting the earth, each other, and crafting meaningful lives. A powerful, positive antidote to troubled times.Acknowledgments Introduction PART I: A HISTORY WRITTEN IN MUD Chapter 1: Our Ways of Building Guiding Principle: We mostly work with unprocessed natural and recycled materials to create and decorate beautiful and healthy structures that are earth friendly. Guiding Principle: We believe this work is so important that we cannot wait until we are all experts. No matter the level of experience, we value each individual for their contribution and abilities and believe strongly in skill-building on the worksite. We Went for It: Creating the World We Wanted to Live In The Measuring Tape: Skill-Building as a Priority. A Non-intimidating Approach to Building Fast, Cheap and Out of Control: Permits = Limits Messages from Mud: It's Not About How Much You Know, But How Much You Believe in What You're Doing Case Studies: Ray and Soozie's Place; Measure Twice, Think Three Times, Cut Once, Because Chainsaws Are Forever Chapter 2: Women's Work Guiding Principle: We are a women's collective and seek to empower ourselves with employment and the skills to build homes. No Boys Allowed: Why We Chose (and Still Choose) An All-woman Crew We Play With Dollies: Work Smarter Not Harder Our Heroines: Other Women that Are Rockin' the Natural Building World and Shattering the Status Quo: Athena Steen, Liz Johndrow, and Becky Bee We Love Dudes: And Dudes Love Us Case Studies: Chris's Contribution; Set the Men Free; No, Really, She's Doing It; Contribution from Todd Turik (One Man Among Many Women) Chapter 3: Rethinking Work Guiding Principle: We are a collective that is human friendly: we recreate our concepts of work to prioritize respect and care for our hearts, our bodies, and our children while we work together. We create a work environment that nurtures us. Large and in Charge: The Empowerment Inherent in Working for Oneself It's Our Worksite, and We'll Cry If We Want To: Allowing Space for Emotions, Needs, and Limitations on the Worksite Bigger Isn't Always Better: Dealing with the Expectations of of Conventional "Efficiency" Versus the Efficiencies Long-term Learning, Safety, Skill-sharing, and Community-building Baby, I Like It Raw: Maintaining the Connection with Raw Materials and Raw Power Case Studies: Ode to the Old: Hand Tools and Handy Elders Soul Food: Nurturing Our Bodies Recipies: Smoked Tofu Potato Salad; Bethany's Rice Pudding; Coconut Curried Lentils; Energy Balls Chapter 4: Caring for the Children Guiding Principle: All our events are child and parentfriendly with quality childcare always provided. Our Kids Are Your Kids: A Better Model for the Greater Good Take Your Child to Work Day, Every Day: Why Mandatory, Built-in Childcare Makes Sense, and Why It's Not Always Perfect The Children of the Revolution: Children as Active Members of the Community Case Studies: How the Inner Child Schooled the Adult Attitude: Youth Facilitation as a Non-parent; That One Time I Almost Lost My Kids and My Mind, and the Silly Play That Saved Us All; Life After Motherhood; Participant/Mother Contribution Chapter 5: Rethinking "Business" Guiding Principle: We seek to do our business in a non-capitalist spirit. We keep the cost of natural building affordable by keeping our wages low, offering our workshops for barter, building for low-income people as much as we can. Ménage à Trois: The Breakdown of Our Workshop Structure How Much Is Too Much?: The Quest to Practice Sustainable Idealism Who Needs Money When There's Mud Everywhere?: A Low Income Plus Resourcefulness Equals Creative Power Client-friends and Friend-clients: Keeping a Healthy Building Relationship Without Contracts Case Studies: Molly's House; Trade Ya a Small House for a Website? Chapter 6: Who's the Boss? Guiding Principle: We are structured non-hierarchically. Each member is equally valued and has equal say in decision-making. Guiding Principle: We use the teachings of Compassionate Communication to create a peaceful, mutually respectful, and revolutionarily harmonious group process. The Internal Workings of The Mudgirls: How We Make Decisions Don't Tell Me What to Do Mycorrhiza: A Symbiosis Inspired by Nature Keeps the Collective Rollin' Case Studies: The Voice of Dissent, and How We Hate to Love It; A Model of Our (Ideal) Steps to Resolve Conflict Chapter 7: Building a Revolution Guiding Principle: We work together to create this collective as we go, nurturing the creative and inventive and courageously open to the process of transformation. Build It and They Will Come: The Search for Other Ways of Living Don't Muddy the Waters: Trying to Live by Example Case Studies: Our Collective's Babies: Mudmob in Australia and The Good Earth Builders PART II: THANKS TIPS! (PRACTICAL BUILDING MATTERS) Chapter 8: Materials and Tools Clay Sourcing Tips How to Test Your Clay Sand, Sand, and Sand Fiber Lumber Mud Tools Woodworking Tools What Trowel to Use and Why Chapter 9: Recipes Clay Paint Recipes That Work Paint #1 Paint #2 Pigment Adhesion Coats Lime Water, Lime Wash Starch Paste (Wheat Paste) Plasters Manure Plaster Clay Plaster Lime Plaster Chapter 10: Tips to Success (We Screwed Up and Learned Stuff) Dry Stack Rock Foundation Tips Dry Stack Rock Foundations for Straw Bale Walls How to Fix Cracks Why Cob Walls Fall Wall Systems Pros and Cons Build Your House in Ten Steps! Endnotes Index About the Author A Note about the Publisher

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Affiche du document Essential Natural Plasters — Essential Natural Plasters
Tina Therrien
2h04min30
Bricolage et décoration
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Co-op Available Features offered to: GreenBuilder, The Last Straw Excerpts offered to Permaculture North America, Inhabitat Advertising in: Mother Earth News, The Last Straw Promoted through author's websites: naturalplaster.ca and shelterbyhand.ca Promoted as part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series with e-newsletter, social media, and advertising Promotion to: natural building schools Both authors have done extensive research and worked on numerous plastering jobs Tina is a founding member of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition Essential Natural Plasters is part of the Sustainable Building Essentials Series Includes proven natural plaster recipes from professionals from around the world Takes the reader through the step-by-step process of plastering including sourcing materials, setting up a work site, safety, and to how to apply the plaster A comprehensive guide to plastering with the North American climate in mind, and with ingredients easily found on this continent. Intended audience: Owner/builders in the natural building world Natural building students Professional plasterers Engineers and architects who specify natural plaster Heritage masons Stucco appliers, drywallers, and other related trades. A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all:Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soils Clay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments Interior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathrooms Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and Sheetrock How to set up a safe, efficient worksite Mixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plasters Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Natural Plaster Ingredients Chapter 3: Planning and Preparation Chapter 4: Mixing and Application Chapter 5: Earth Plaster Base Coats Recipe: Project Karyne Base Coat from Site Soil Recipe: Easily Workable Base Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Straw-Clay Mud Recipe: Lime-Stabilized Base Coat Using Bagged Clay or Site Clay Recipe: Straworks' Baseball Diamond Mix Recipe: La Couche de Corps Recipe: Super Sticky Upside-Down Mix Chapter 6: Earth Plaster Finish Coats Recipe: All-Purpose Finish Plaster Recipe: Pigmented Finish Plaster with Fiber Recipe: Silty Subsoil Dolomite Sand Top Coat Recipe: Fat Plaster Recipe: Finish Coat with "Mayonnaise" Recipe: Finish Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Glen's Wet-Burnish Plaster Recipe: Finish Clay Plaster with Shredded Paper or Cellulose Recipe: Polishing Clay Plaster Recipe: Starch Paste Recipe: Rice or Corn Starch Paste Chapter 7: Lime Plasters Lime Recipe: Simple Hydrated Lime Plaster Lime Recipe: Traditional Lime Putty-Based Scratch Coat with Hair Reinforcement Lime Recipe: Multi-Functional Hemp Lime Coating Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Manure Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Paper Pulp Lime Recipe: Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Stuc/Chevy Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Hot Mixed Lime Mortars Lime Recipe: Harling, Rough Cast, and Pebble Dash as External Lime Plastering Finishes Lime Recipe: Homemade Hydraulic Lime Base Coat Chapter 8: More Binders Chapter 9: Finishes and Aftercare Recipe: Carole Crews' Favorite Alis Appendix 1: Coverage Estimates and Conversions Appendix 2: Resources Contributors Index About the Authors A Note About the Publisher

Essential Natural Plasters
Tina Therrien
2h04min30
Bricolage et décoration
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Co-op Available Features offered to: GreenBuilder, The Last Straw Excerpts offered to Permaculture North America, Inhabitat Advertising in: Mother Earth News, The Last Straw Promoted through author's websites: naturalplaster.ca and shelterbyhand.ca Promoted as part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series with e-newsletter, social media, and advertising Promotion to: natural building schools Both authors have done extensive research and worked on numerous plastering jobs Tina is a founding member of the Ontario Natural Building Coalition Essential Natural Plasters is part of the Sustainable Building Essentials Series Includes proven natural plaster recipes from professionals from around the world Takes the reader through the step-by-step process of plastering including sourcing materials, setting up a work site, safety, and to how to apply the plaster A comprehensive guide to plastering with the North American climate in mind, and with ingredients easily found on this continent. Intended audience: Owner/builders in the natural building world Natural building students Professional plasterers Engineers and architects who specify natural plaster Heritage masons Stucco appliers, drywallers, and other related trades. A veritable cookbook of natural plaster recipes and techniques for beautiful, durable finishes Natural plasters made of clay, lime, and other materials mixed with sand are beautiful building finishes. Fun to work with, low-impact, and allowing infinite creativity, they are high performance and provide proven, centuries-long durability.Yet until now there's been no resource that has pulled together the best North American plaster recipes and how-to into one place. Essential Natural Plasters covers it all:Sourcing and selecting materials, including site-soils Clay, lime, and gypsum plasters as well as fibers and amendments Interior and exterior use and specialty plasters such as tadelakt for bathrooms Preparing substrates, from straw bales and cob to lath and Sheetrock How to set up a safe, efficient worksite Mixing, testing, tinting, repairing, and applying plasters Coveted recipes from leading plasterers in Ontario, Vermont, New Mexico, France, and New Zealand.Richly illustrated and deeply researched, Essential Natural Plasters is the must-have resource for owner-builders and professionals alike.Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Natural Plaster Ingredients Chapter 3: Planning and Preparation Chapter 4: Mixing and Application Chapter 5: Earth Plaster Base Coats Recipe: Project Karyne Base Coat from Site Soil Recipe: Easily Workable Base Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Straw-Clay Mud Recipe: Lime-Stabilized Base Coat Using Bagged Clay or Site Clay Recipe: Straworks' Baseball Diamond Mix Recipe: La Couche de Corps Recipe: Super Sticky Upside-Down Mix Chapter 6: Earth Plaster Finish Coats Recipe: All-Purpose Finish Plaster Recipe: Pigmented Finish Plaster with Fiber Recipe: Silty Subsoil Dolomite Sand Top Coat Recipe: Fat Plaster Recipe: Finish Coat with "Mayonnaise" Recipe: Finish Coat Using Bagged Clay Recipe: Glen's Wet-Burnish Plaster Recipe: Finish Clay Plaster with Shredded Paper or Cellulose Recipe: Polishing Clay Plaster Recipe: Starch Paste Recipe: Rice or Corn Starch Paste Chapter 7: Lime Plasters Lime Recipe: Simple Hydrated Lime Plaster Lime Recipe: Traditional Lime Putty-Based Scratch Coat with Hair Reinforcement Lime Recipe: Multi-Functional Hemp Lime Coating Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Manure Lime Recipe: Lime Plaster with Paper Pulp Lime Recipe: Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Stuc/Chevy Tadelakt Lime Recipe: Hot Mixed Lime Mortars Lime Recipe: Harling, Rough Cast, and Pebble Dash as External Lime Plastering Finishes Lime Recipe: Homemade Hydraulic Lime Base Coat Chapter 8: More Binders Chapter 9: Finishes and Aftercare Recipe: Carole Crews' Favorite Alis Appendix 1: Coverage Estimates and Conversions Appendix 2: Resources Contributors Index About the Authors A Note About the Publisher

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Affiche du document Cracking the Boy Code — Cracking the Boy Code
Adam Cox
1h15min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Learn the secret language of boys and how to reconnectAdam Cox is an author, speaker and clinical psychologist with twenty years of experience treating school-age boys, and has had hundreds of consultations with schools and child-focused organizations worldwide. A frequent lecturer on the emotional and cognitive development of youth, Cox was commissioned to conduct a global school-based research project to investigate how young people find authentic meaning and purpose in their lives. Cracking the Boy Code offers parents, educators, and coaches clear methods for initiating and sustaining successful communication with boys and young men. Given the challenges affecting contemporary boys, an immediate reset in how we approach them is needed, and Cracking the Boy Code speaks to the widespread, understandable concern with preparing boys to become good men. The book is a blueprint of positive, strategic actions that demonstrate what it means to raise and teach boys effectively. Some key questions that will be addressed include: What motivates boys? What are their priorities, and how do their core beliefs shape how they communicate? How can we help them to listen better? How do we get through their defenses? Communication is a means to an important end: instilling love, confidence, and effort toward goals that reflect the boy's own values and ideals The book concludes with a discussion of themes that are of great interest and importance to boys, as supported by the author's clinical work and research interviews. This book will be particularly compelling to parents who have sons who are shy, quiet, and hard to reach " boys who may appear evasive or inarticulate.Intended audience:This book is for general readers who are parents (or grandparents), educators, school staff, school psychologists, therapists, learning aides, coaches, and youth workers " anyone with a boy or young man to raise, teach, or mentor. It will also be for those with an interest in psychology, education, or gender issues. Often the reader of this book will be a mother who buys the book about her son, and finds that much of it applies to her partner, as well.Parents, educators, educational and youth consultants, mental health professionals coaches, leaders of youth organizations, academic faculty, researchers.International MarketAuthor was commissioned by The international Boys' School Coalition to conduct a global school-based research project on how boys find authentic meaning and purpose in their lives. He interviewed students from the UK, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The author was the scholar in residence at the Sydney, Australia Church of England Grammar School and has lectured in Johannesburg, South Africa, London UK, New Zealand and Singapore.Learn the secret language of boys and how to reconnectAll too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. How do you penetrate this shell before they are lost to you?Drawing on decades of experience garnered through thousands of hours of therapy with boys, Cracking the Boy Code explains how the key to communicating with boys is understanding their universal psychological needs and using specific, straightforward communication techniques. Coverage includes:Why it's important to understand the psychological needs of boysHow to talk to be heard, and listen to understandThe crucial role of non-verbal cuesLearning the universal tone that helps boys listenMotivating boys to become their authentic selvesUsing purposeful work to teach boys self-respect and confidenceReducing stress and creating greater closeness between boys and caregivers.Essential reading for parents, caregivers, teachers, youth workers, coaches, and others who want to make a real connection with the boys in their lives.ProloguePart I: Strategies and Techniques for TalkingChapter 1: What Is Good Communication?Chapter 2: Is He Hearing You?Chapter 3: What's He Thinking?Chapter 4: Great BeginningsChapter 5: Vocal Tone and Eye ContactPart II: Deepening the ConversationChapter 6: Authenticity - Helping Boys Become ThemselvesChapter 7: Boys and WorkChapter 8: Keys to MotivationChapter 9: Therapy with BoysAppendix: Fifty Purposeful Work IdeasEndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher

Cracking the Boy Code
Adam Cox
1h15min45
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Learn the secret language of boys and how to reconnectAdam Cox is an author, speaker and clinical psychologist with twenty years of experience treating school-age boys, and has had hundreds of consultations with schools and child-focused organizations worldwide. A frequent lecturer on the emotional and cognitive development of youth, Cox was commissioned to conduct a global school-based research project to investigate how young people find authentic meaning and purpose in their lives. Cracking the Boy Code offers parents, educators, and coaches clear methods for initiating and sustaining successful communication with boys and young men. Given the challenges affecting contemporary boys, an immediate reset in how we approach them is needed, and Cracking the Boy Code speaks to the widespread, understandable concern with preparing boys to become good men. The book is a blueprint of positive, strategic actions that demonstrate what it means to raise and teach boys effectively. Some key questions that will be addressed include: What motivates boys? What are their priorities, and how do their core beliefs shape how they communicate? How can we help them to listen better? How do we get through their defenses? Communication is a means to an important end: instilling love, confidence, and effort toward goals that reflect the boy's own values and ideals The book concludes with a discussion of themes that are of great interest and importance to boys, as supported by the author's clinical work and research interviews. This book will be particularly compelling to parents who have sons who are shy, quiet, and hard to reach " boys who may appear evasive or inarticulate.Intended audience:This book is for general readers who are parents (or grandparents), educators, school staff, school psychologists, therapists, learning aides, coaches, and youth workers " anyone with a boy or young man to raise, teach, or mentor. It will also be for those with an interest in psychology, education, or gender issues. Often the reader of this book will be a mother who buys the book about her son, and finds that much of it applies to her partner, as well.Parents, educators, educational and youth consultants, mental health professionals coaches, leaders of youth organizations, academic faculty, researchers.International MarketAuthor was commissioned by The international Boys' School Coalition to conduct a global school-based research project on how boys find authentic meaning and purpose in their lives. He interviewed students from the UK, Singapore, South Africa, New Zealand and Australia. The author was the scholar in residence at the Sydney, Australia Church of England Grammar School and has lectured in Johannesburg, South Africa, London UK, New Zealand and Singapore.Learn the secret language of boys and how to reconnectAll too quickly, talkative, affectionate young boys seem to slip away. Adolescents may be transformed overnight into reclusive, seemingly impenetrable young people who open up only to their friends and spend more time on devices than with family. How do you penetrate this shell before they are lost to you?Drawing on decades of experience garnered through thousands of hours of therapy with boys, Cracking the Boy Code explains how the key to communicating with boys is understanding their universal psychological needs and using specific, straightforward communication techniques. Coverage includes:Why it's important to understand the psychological needs of boysHow to talk to be heard, and listen to understandThe crucial role of non-verbal cuesLearning the universal tone that helps boys listenMotivating boys to become their authentic selvesUsing purposeful work to teach boys self-respect and confidenceReducing stress and creating greater closeness between boys and caregivers.Essential reading for parents, caregivers, teachers, youth workers, coaches, and others who want to make a real connection with the boys in their lives.ProloguePart I: Strategies and Techniques for TalkingChapter 1: What Is Good Communication?Chapter 2: Is He Hearing You?Chapter 3: What's He Thinking?Chapter 4: Great BeginningsChapter 5: Vocal Tone and Eye ContactPart II: Deepening the ConversationChapter 6: Authenticity - Helping Boys Become ThemselvesChapter 7: Boys and WorkChapter 8: Keys to MotivationChapter 9: Therapy with BoysAppendix: Fifty Purposeful Work IdeasEndnotesAcknowledgmentsIndexAbout the AuthorA Note about the Publisher

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Affiche du document Intrinsic Hope — Intrinsic Hope
Kate Davies
1h22min30
Développement personnel
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Excerpts offered to: Journal of Sustainability Education; Tikuun; UTNE Reader; Spirituality; Resurgence; Orion; Lions Roar; Alternatives Journal and Green AmericaAdvertising in: Alternatives JournalPromotion on the author's website: tbaPublicity in association with authors speaking eventsPromotion through environmental organizations and faith based organizationsGalley available on Edelweiss, printed galleys to major trade publications Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Youtube, Pinterest and InstagramA different kind of hope for living in these turbulent times Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, maintaining hope for the future is a monumental task. Intrinsic Hope offers a powerful antidote to these feelings. It shows how conventional ideas of hope are rooted in the belief that life will conform to our wishes and how this leads to disappointment, despair, and a dismal view of the future. As an alternative, it offers "intrinsic hope," a powerful, liberating, and positive approach to life based on having a deep trust in whatever happens. The author, a hopeful survivor, shows how to cultivate intrinsic hope through practical tips and six mindful habits for living a positive, courageous life in these troubled times. Whether working directly on ecological or social issues or worried about children and grandchildren, this book is for everyone concerned about the future and looking for a deeper source of hope for a better world. AWARDS GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Social Grand Prize Overall Winner GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Personal Growth Foreword by Vicki RobbinIntroduction: Where On Earth Are We Going?The Global Eco-social Crisis and Its ImpactsPsychological ImpactsThe Psychological ContextWhere On Earth Are We Going?Uncovering and Nurturing HopePart I: Uncovering Intrinsic Hope1. Naming Our Feelings about the Global Eco-social CrisisFearDisappointmentSelf-Righteous Anger and FrustrationShame and GuiltSadness and DespairGriefDenial and ApathyConcluding Thoughts2. Reasons for HopeLife Is Inherently HopefulWe Know More Than Ever BeforeThe Future Is UncertainWe May Be Able to Resolve This Crisis Because We Caused ItHumankind Is Beginning to Think GloballyHistory Tells Us Positive Social Change Is PossibleThe Growing Global Citizens' MovementHope Can Be LearnedIt Is Our Responsibility To Be HopefulJust Because. . .What Else Would We Do?3. Intrinsic and Extrinsic HopeExtrinsic HopeIntrinsic HopeExtrinsic and Intrinsic Hope ComparedThe Relationship Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic HopePart II: Habits of Hope4. Being PresentMindfulnessDistractionSelective AttentionMeditationUsing Our SensesWonderBearing WitnessBeing Present to the Universe5. Expressing GratitudeChoosing to Feel GratefulThings To Be Grateful ForExpressing GratitudeAppreciation and ProblemsJoyGratitude and Consumerism6. Loving the WorldLove and CompassionCommunityLoving PlacesLoving the EarthLoving Future Generations7. Accepting What IsOpening Up to Painful EmotionsForgivenessReframingExpressing Feelings8. Taking ActionScientific InformationResults, Responsibility, and VirtuePurpose and CommitmentDo No HarmSmall Steps9. Persevering for the Long HaulSelf-DisciplineResilienceLong-Term ThinkingCuriosityLooking After OurselvesCelebrating Good NewsConclusion: Pandora's GiftInvitationAcknowledgmentsEndnotesAbout the AuthorAbout New Society Publishers

Intrinsic Hope
Kate Davies
1h22min30
Développement personnel
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Excerpts offered to: Journal of Sustainability Education; Tikuun; UTNE Reader; Spirituality; Resurgence; Orion; Lions Roar; Alternatives Journal and Green AmericaAdvertising in: Alternatives JournalPromotion on the author's website: tbaPublicity in association with authors speaking eventsPromotion through environmental organizations and faith based organizationsGalley available on Edelweiss, printed galleys to major trade publications Simultaneous ebook release and promotion Promotion on New Society Publishers social media platforms including Facebook, Twitter, Blog, Youtube, Pinterest and InstagramA different kind of hope for living in these turbulent times Climate disruption. Growing social inequality. Pollution. We are living in an era of unprecedented crises, resulting in widespread feelings of fear, despair, and grief. Now, more than ever, maintaining hope for the future is a monumental task. Intrinsic Hope offers a powerful antidote to these feelings. It shows how conventional ideas of hope are rooted in the belief that life will conform to our wishes and how this leads to disappointment, despair, and a dismal view of the future. As an alternative, it offers "intrinsic hope," a powerful, liberating, and positive approach to life based on having a deep trust in whatever happens. The author, a hopeful survivor, shows how to cultivate intrinsic hope through practical tips and six mindful habits for living a positive, courageous life in these troubled times. Whether working directly on ecological or social issues or worried about children and grandchildren, this book is for everyone concerned about the future and looking for a deeper source of hope for a better world. AWARDS GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Social Grand Prize Overall Winner GOLD | 2018 Nautilus Book Awards: Personal Growth Foreword by Vicki RobbinIntroduction: Where On Earth Are We Going?The Global Eco-social Crisis and Its ImpactsPsychological ImpactsThe Psychological ContextWhere On Earth Are We Going?Uncovering and Nurturing HopePart I: Uncovering Intrinsic Hope1. Naming Our Feelings about the Global Eco-social CrisisFearDisappointmentSelf-Righteous Anger and FrustrationShame and GuiltSadness and DespairGriefDenial and ApathyConcluding Thoughts2. Reasons for HopeLife Is Inherently HopefulWe Know More Than Ever BeforeThe Future Is UncertainWe May Be Able to Resolve This Crisis Because We Caused ItHumankind Is Beginning to Think GloballyHistory Tells Us Positive Social Change Is PossibleThe Growing Global Citizens' MovementHope Can Be LearnedIt Is Our Responsibility To Be HopefulJust Because. . .What Else Would We Do?3. Intrinsic and Extrinsic HopeExtrinsic HopeIntrinsic HopeExtrinsic and Intrinsic Hope ComparedThe Relationship Between Intrinsic and Extrinsic HopePart II: Habits of Hope4. Being PresentMindfulnessDistractionSelective AttentionMeditationUsing Our SensesWonderBearing WitnessBeing Present to the Universe5. Expressing GratitudeChoosing to Feel GratefulThings To Be Grateful ForExpressing GratitudeAppreciation and ProblemsJoyGratitude and Consumerism6. Loving the WorldLove and CompassionCommunityLoving PlacesLoving the EarthLoving Future Generations7. Accepting What IsOpening Up to Painful EmotionsForgivenessReframingExpressing Feelings8. Taking ActionScientific InformationResults, Responsibility, and VirtuePurpose and CommitmentDo No HarmSmall Steps9. Persevering for the Long HaulSelf-DisciplineResilienceLong-Term ThinkingCuriosityLooking After OurselvesCelebrating Good NewsConclusion: Pandora's GiftInvitationAcknowledgmentsEndnotesAbout the AuthorAbout New Society Publishers

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Affiche du document Culture Gap — Culture Gap
Judith Plant
48min45
Biographies
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65 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 49min.
The pervasive, and intriguing, stories surrounding the mysterious Camelsfoot Commune in the Yalakom valley, BC, Canada. Previously untold story of a mysterious commune in the remote Yalakom Valley, north of Lillooet, BC, Canada Centered around a brilliant and charismatic Simon FraserUniversity professor manqué, Fred Brown A candid account of one family's experience of going back-to-the-land Author is acting Publisher of well-known activist book publishers, New Society Publishers An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap depicts a young mother's struggle to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility with the practicalities of loving and caring for those closest to her As a new generation searches for meaning, this story of lived experience provides intrigue and valuable lessons learned The pervasive, and intriguing, stories surrounding the mysterious Camelsfoot Commune in the Yalakom valley, BC, Canada.Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to the human drama the author recounts. Judith and Kip Plant's family includes her children; Willie takes to the new life, but his sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, stricken with cancer, is dying. An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap also shows, from her own older perspective, a young mother's struggles to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility, and loving and caring for those closest to her.Prologue: The Trail Chapter One: We Take the Plunge (and the Trail) Chapter Two: Our Courage Did Not Quail Chapter Three: How Do We Decide What to Do? Chapter Four: Camelsfoot Meets Eaglestarr Chapter Five: Big Food, Big Issues Chapter Six: The First Winter Chapter Seven: Work Hard, Play Hard, Learn Lots Chapter Eight: A Hard Lesson, and Real Love Chapter Nine: Power Outside and In... Chapter Ten: We Lose Fred...ForeverEpilogue: Another World is PossibleAcknowledgementsRights Page

Culture Gap
Judith Plant
48min45
Biographies
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65 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 49min.
The pervasive, and intriguing, stories surrounding the mysterious Camelsfoot Commune in the Yalakom valley, BC, Canada. Previously untold story of a mysterious commune in the remote Yalakom Valley, north of Lillooet, BC, Canada Centered around a brilliant and charismatic Simon FraserUniversity professor manqué, Fred Brown A candid account of one family's experience of going back-to-the-land Author is acting Publisher of well-known activist book publishers, New Society Publishers An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap depicts a young mother's struggle to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility with the practicalities of loving and caring for those closest to her As a new generation searches for meaning, this story of lived experience provides intrigue and valuable lessons learned The pervasive, and intriguing, stories surrounding the mysterious Camelsfoot Commune in the Yalakom valley, BC, Canada.Culture Gap: Towards a New World in the Yalakom Valley tells the story of a two year sojourn at the Camelsfoot Commume in a remote valley in BC, Canada. The challenges and privations, the joys and adventures of rural communal living, form the backdrop to the human drama the author recounts. Judith and Kip Plant's family includes her children; Willie takes to the new life, but his sisters feel the strong pull of the life they left behind. Meanwhile Fred, the inspiration for the commune, stricken with cancer, is dying. An absorbing account of a lifestyle emblematic of a time, Culture Gap also shows, from her own older perspective, a young mother's struggles to reconcile her social ideals of personal and environmental responsibility, and loving and caring for those closest to her.Prologue: The Trail Chapter One: We Take the Plunge (and the Trail) Chapter Two: Our Courage Did Not Quail Chapter Three: How Do We Decide What to Do? Chapter Four: Camelsfoot Meets Eaglestarr Chapter Five: Big Food, Big Issues Chapter Six: The First Winter Chapter Seven: Work Hard, Play Hard, Learn Lots Chapter Eight: A Hard Lesson, and Real Love Chapter Nine: Power Outside and In... Chapter Ten: We Lose Fred...ForeverEpilogue: Another World is PossibleAcknowledgementsRights Page

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Affiche du document Changing Tides — Changing Tides
Alejandro Frid
1h45min45
Ecologie
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141 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 1h46min.
Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene In Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises? Merging scientific perspectives with Indigenous knowledge might just help us change the story we tell ourselves about who we are and where we could go. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and destabilizing the climate, the future of Earth will very much reflect the stories that Homo sapiens decide to jettison or accept today into our collective identity. At this pivotal moment in history, the most important story we can be telling ourselves is that humans are not inherently destructive. In seeking the answers, Frid draws from a deep well of personal experience and that of Indigenous colleagues, finding a glimmer of hope in Indigenous cultures that, despite the ravishes of colonialism, have for thousands of years developed intentional and socially complex practices for resource management that epitomize sustainability. Changing Tides is for everyone concerned with the irrevocable changes we have unleashed upon our planet and how we might steer towards a more benign Anthropocene. AWARDS GOLD | 2020 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC & Yukon Book Prize) GOLD | 2019 Ocean Wise Research Institute Ocean Awards SILVER | 2019 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment Preface 1: Gravity Suspended 2: Resisting Least Resistance 3: Coalescing Knowledge 4: Reawakening 5: The Exuberance of Herring 6: Sculpted by River and Story 7: Beautiful ProtestInterlude I8. Echoes Across the Lake 9. Ditching Our Climate-Wrecking StoriesInterlude II10. At the Edge of Geologic Epochs11. Transformation AcknowledgmentsCaptionsNotesReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note About the Publisher

Changing Tides
Alejandro Frid
1h45min45
Ecologie
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Change the story and change the future – merging science and Indigenous knowledge to steer us towards a more benign Anthropocene In Changing Tides, Alejandro Frid tackles the big questions: who, or what, represents our essential selves, and what stories might allow us to shift the collective psyche of industrial civilization in time to avert the worst of the climate and biodiversity crises? Merging scientific perspectives with Indigenous knowledge might just help us change the story we tell ourselves about who we are and where we could go. As humanity marches on, causing mass extinctions and destabilizing the climate, the future of Earth will very much reflect the stories that Homo sapiens decide to jettison or accept today into our collective identity. At this pivotal moment in history, the most important story we can be telling ourselves is that humans are not inherently destructive. In seeking the answers, Frid draws from a deep well of personal experience and that of Indigenous colleagues, finding a glimmer of hope in Indigenous cultures that, despite the ravishes of colonialism, have for thousands of years developed intentional and socially complex practices for resource management that epitomize sustainability. Changing Tides is for everyone concerned with the irrevocable changes we have unleashed upon our planet and how we might steer towards a more benign Anthropocene. AWARDS GOLD | 2020 Hubert Evans Non-Fiction Prize (BC & Yukon Book Prize) GOLD | 2019 Ocean Wise Research Institute Ocean Awards SILVER | 2019 Nautilus Book Awards: Ecology & Environment Preface 1: Gravity Suspended 2: Resisting Least Resistance 3: Coalescing Knowledge 4: Reawakening 5: The Exuberance of Herring 6: Sculpted by River and Story 7: Beautiful ProtestInterlude I8. Echoes Across the Lake 9. Ditching Our Climate-Wrecking StoriesInterlude II10. At the Edge of Geologic Epochs11. Transformation AcknowledgmentsCaptionsNotesReferencesIndexAbout the AuthorA Note About the Publisher

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Affiche du document Essential Light Straw Clay Construction — Essential Light Straw Clay Construction
Lydia Doleman
1h48min00
Architecture et design
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Featured in: Permaculture Magazine NA , features offered to: Green Builder, Fine Home Building, Excerpts offered to GRIT, The Family Handyman, Mother Earth News, GRIT, Acres USA, Resilience.org, Natural Building Networks Advertising in Mother Earth News, Permaculture NA Promoted with microwebsite on Green Builder Magazine with chapter excerpts and blog Promoted as part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series Promotion on author's website www.theflyinghammer.com Galley available on Edelweiss Promotion to natural building associations through in-house targeted list Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Promotion via New Society Publishers social media platforms. The author helped to legitimize straw bale construction in the Pacific Northwest by constructing Portland's first permitted straw bale addition and Portland's first permitted straw bale residence. Flying Hammer Productions is her natural building construction company focused on pushing the boundaries of affordable and energy-efficient housing T his is the first non-proprietary how-to manual on light straw clay building, for residential, commercial, small-scale, and large scale buildings. Essential Light Straw Clay Construction will walk the beginner or interested experienced builder through the variety of ways to build using a Light Straw Clay wall system Essential Light Straw Clay Construction highlights a variety of wall systems including timber frame, pole frame, stud frame, existing framing, Larsen trusses, conventional framing This is the fourth book in the Sustainable Building Essentials series Includes drawings and photos detailing the various tools, techniques, and wall sections for light straw clay infill wall systems, making this a great general resource for anyone interested in building with light straw clay. Code compliant with its own building code addendum for New Mexico, enabling its adoption across in the US The first highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to light straw clay - a high performance, low-impact, durable building material Light straw clay - straw mixed with clay slip - is a versatile, easy-to-use wall building material. Also called "slip-straw", its durability has been proven in beautiful, centuries-old buildings across Northern Europe and in modern high-performance buildings in North America. Building code compliant in the US and using "waste" materials with high insulation value and excellent moisture handling qualities, it's both high-performance and low-impact. Yet until now, there has been no practical guide to using the material in a wide variety of construction and renovation projects. Distilling decades of experience, Essential Light Straw Clay Construction is a fully illustrated step-by-step guide, ideal for both the DIYer and professional designer and builder alike. It covers: Material specifications, performance, and when and where to use it Estimating quantities, costs, and sourcing Illustrated, step-by-step guidance for mixing and installation, including "slip-chip" variations Detail drawings for various wall systems including stud, timber, and pole framing, Larsen trusses, I-joists, plus retrofits Code references, compliance, and best practice Finishing and maintenance techniques Additional resources. Lydia Doleman , a licenced contractor, taught carpentry and natural building at Solar Energy International in Colorado and was lead ecological builder for Portland's City Repair project. She's created beautiful, high-performance, low-impact buildings across the Northwest, from Portland's first permitted straw bale home and The Rebuilding Center's cob entryway, to a 3,300-sq. f light clay straw brewery. She's written for The Last Straw Journal and Permaculture Activist and appeared on NBC News and HGTV's Off Beat America . Lydia lives in southern Oregon. Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rationale Chapter 3: Appropriate Use Chapter 4: Building Science Notes Chapter 5 : Material Specifications Chapter 6: Design Options: Framing Systems and Form Options Chapter 7: Design Notes, Details, and Budgeting Chapter 8: Construction Procedures Chapter 9: Finishes Chapter 10: Maintenance and Renovation Chapter 11: Building Codes Chapter 12: Tools Appendix 1: APPENDIX R – Light Straw Clay Construction, from 2015 IRC Index About the Author

Essential Light Straw Clay Construction
Lydia Doleman
1h48min00
Architecture et design
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Featured in: Permaculture Magazine NA , features offered to: Green Builder, Fine Home Building, Excerpts offered to GRIT, The Family Handyman, Mother Earth News, GRIT, Acres USA, Resilience.org, Natural Building Networks Advertising in Mother Earth News, Permaculture NA Promoted with microwebsite on Green Builder Magazine with chapter excerpts and blog Promoted as part of the Sustainable Building Essentials series Promotion on author's website www.theflyinghammer.com Galley available on Edelweiss Promotion to natural building associations through in-house targeted list Publicity and promotion in conjunction with the author's speaking engagements Promotion via New Society Publishers social media platforms. The author helped to legitimize straw bale construction in the Pacific Northwest by constructing Portland's first permitted straw bale addition and Portland's first permitted straw bale residence. Flying Hammer Productions is her natural building construction company focused on pushing the boundaries of affordable and energy-efficient housing T his is the first non-proprietary how-to manual on light straw clay building, for residential, commercial, small-scale, and large scale buildings. Essential Light Straw Clay Construction will walk the beginner or interested experienced builder through the variety of ways to build using a Light Straw Clay wall system Essential Light Straw Clay Construction highlights a variety of wall systems including timber frame, pole frame, stud frame, existing framing, Larsen trusses, conventional framing This is the fourth book in the Sustainable Building Essentials series Includes drawings and photos detailing the various tools, techniques, and wall sections for light straw clay infill wall systems, making this a great general resource for anyone interested in building with light straw clay. Code compliant with its own building code addendum for New Mexico, enabling its adoption across in the US The first highly illustrated, comprehensive guide to light straw clay - a high performance, low-impact, durable building material Light straw clay - straw mixed with clay slip - is a versatile, easy-to-use wall building material. Also called "slip-straw", its durability has been proven in beautiful, centuries-old buildings across Northern Europe and in modern high-performance buildings in North America. Building code compliant in the US and using "waste" materials with high insulation value and excellent moisture handling qualities, it's both high-performance and low-impact. Yet until now, there has been no practical guide to using the material in a wide variety of construction and renovation projects. Distilling decades of experience, Essential Light Straw Clay Construction is a fully illustrated step-by-step guide, ideal for both the DIYer and professional designer and builder alike. It covers: Material specifications, performance, and when and where to use it Estimating quantities, costs, and sourcing Illustrated, step-by-step guidance for mixing and installation, including "slip-chip" variations Detail drawings for various wall systems including stud, timber, and pole framing, Larsen trusses, I-joists, plus retrofits Code references, compliance, and best practice Finishing and maintenance techniques Additional resources. Lydia Doleman , a licenced contractor, taught carpentry and natural building at Solar Energy International in Colorado and was lead ecological builder for Portland's City Repair project. She's created beautiful, high-performance, low-impact buildings across the Northwest, from Portland's first permitted straw bale home and The Rebuilding Center's cob entryway, to a 3,300-sq. f light clay straw brewery. She's written for The Last Straw Journal and Permaculture Activist and appeared on NBC News and HGTV's Off Beat America . Lydia lives in southern Oregon. Acknowledgments Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Rationale Chapter 3: Appropriate Use Chapter 4: Building Science Notes Chapter 5 : Material Specifications Chapter 6: Design Options: Framing Systems and Form Options Chapter 7: Design Notes, Details, and Budgeting Chapter 8: Construction Procedures Chapter 9: Finishes Chapter 10: Maintenance and Renovation Chapter 11: Building Codes Chapter 12: Tools Appendix 1: APPENDIX R – Light Straw Clay Construction, from 2015 IRC Index About the Author

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Affiche du document The Clean Money Revolution — The Clean Money Revolution
Joel Solomon
2h41min15
Divers
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Discover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the worldDiscover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the world. By 2050, $50 trillion will change hands in North America in the largest generational wealth transfer ever. It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history. "Business as usual", founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over. Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on edge. Meanwhile innovations are shifting the economic ground, and an entire generation is pounding the table for real change. Capitalism is evolving into a force that can restore the planet, transform the global economy, and bring justice to people. Joel Solomon, impact investor and change agent, lays it on the line. The Clean Money Revolution is part memoir of an inspiring thought leader's journey from presidential campaigner to pioneering investor, part insider's guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a new vision of profit, power, and purpose. Meet some of the people behind this massive shift, and discover the role you can play in the $50-trillion movement toward true prosperity. A must-read for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future. The Clean Money Revolution is on. Join it!Foreword by Jessy TolkanPreface to the 2018 Edition by Joel Solomon Preface by Joel SolomonPreface by Tyee BridgeIntroduction: The $100 Trillion Question1. A Mighty Time Q&A with Don Shaffer, Former CEO, RSF Social Finance and Cofounder, Jubilee2. Quest for Purpose Q&A with Janie Hoffman, Founder + CEO, Mamma Chia3. Discoveries on the Edge Q&A with Sallie Calhoun,Founder, Cienega Capital and Paicines Ranch & Esther Park, CEO, Cienega Capital4. Nashville Calling Q&A with Jose Corona, Director of Equity and Strategic Partnerships, Oakland Mayor's Office5. Through the Looking Glass Q&A with Morgan Simon, Managing Director, Candide Group6. The Story Machine Q&A with Fran Seegull, Executive Director, US Impact Investing Alliance7. Unleashing Philanthropy Q&A with Drummond Pike, Founder, Tides Foundation8. Clean Money Emergence Q&A with Rha Goddess, Founder + CEO, Move the Crowd9. Evolutionary Leadership Q&A with Danny Kennedy, Cofounder, Sungevity and Managing Director, California Clean Energy Fund10. The $100 Trillion QuestionAcknowledgmentsEndnotesIndexAbout the AuthorsAbout New Society PublishersSelect List of Profiled Organizations and BusinessesB Corporation | BALLE | Bioneers | Business for Social Responsibility | Guayaki | Happy Planet | Hollyhock | Investors Circle | Lunapads | Patagonia | PlayBig | Renewal Funds | Renewal Partners | RSF Social Finance | Seventh Generation | SOCAP | Social Venture Network | Stonyfield Yogurt | Threshold Foundation | Tides Canada

The Clean Money Revolution
Joel Solomon
2h41min15
Divers
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Discover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the worldDiscover your role in the $50-trillion "clean money" revolution that is bringing true prosperity to the world. By 2050, $50 trillion will change hands in North America in the largest generational wealth transfer ever. It will remake the world and be the biggest money-making opportunity in history. "Business as usual", founded on exploitation and environmental ruin, is over. Climate catastrophe, reactionary politics, and widening inequity have put the world on edge. Meanwhile innovations are shifting the economic ground, and an entire generation is pounding the table for real change. Capitalism is evolving into a force that can restore the planet, transform the global economy, and bring justice to people. Joel Solomon, impact investor and change agent, lays it on the line. The Clean Money Revolution is part memoir of an inspiring thought leader's journey from presidential campaigner to pioneering investor, part insider's guide to the businesses remaking the world, and part manifesto for a new vision of profit, power, and purpose. Meet some of the people behind this massive shift, and discover the role you can play in the $50-trillion movement toward true prosperity. A must-read for investors, wealth advisors, aspiring entrepreneurs, and all who want their values and money to work together to transform the future. The Clean Money Revolution is on. Join it!Foreword by Jessy TolkanPreface to the 2018 Edition by Joel Solomon Preface by Joel SolomonPreface by Tyee BridgeIntroduction: The $100 Trillion Question1. A Mighty Time Q&A with Don Shaffer, Former CEO, RSF Social Finance and Cofounder, Jubilee2. Quest for Purpose Q&A with Janie Hoffman, Founder + CEO, Mamma Chia3. Discoveries on the Edge Q&A with Sallie Calhoun,Founder, Cienega Capital and Paicines Ranch & Esther Park, CEO, Cienega Capital4. Nashville Calling Q&A with Jose Corona, Director of Equity and Strategic Partnerships, Oakland Mayor's Office5. Through the Looking Glass Q&A with Morgan Simon, Managing Director, Candide Group6. The Story Machine Q&A with Fran Seegull, Executive Director, US Impact Investing Alliance7. Unleashing Philanthropy Q&A with Drummond Pike, Founder, Tides Foundation8. Clean Money Emergence Q&A with Rha Goddess, Founder + CEO, Move the Crowd9. Evolutionary Leadership Q&A with Danny Kennedy, Cofounder, Sungevity and Managing Director, California Clean Energy Fund10. The $100 Trillion QuestionAcknowledgmentsEndnotesIndexAbout the AuthorsAbout New Society PublishersSelect List of Profiled Organizations and BusinessesB Corporation | BALLE | Bioneers | Business for Social Responsibility | Guayaki | Happy Planet | Hollyhock | Investors Circle | Lunapads | Patagonia | PlayBig | Renewal Funds | Renewal Partners | RSF Social Finance | Seventh Generation | SOCAP | Social Venture Network | Stonyfield Yogurt | Threshold Foundation | Tides Canada

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Affiche du document Building Natural Ponds — Building Natural Ponds
Robert Pavlis
1h24min00
Jardinage
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Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds. The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation. Building Natural Ponds is the first step-by-step guide to designing and building natural ponds that use no pumps, filters, chemicals, or electricity and mimic native ponds in both aesthetics and functionality. Highly illustrated with how-to drawings and photographs, coverage includes: Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens. Whether you're a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, Building Natural Ponds is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity. Robert Pavlis , a Master Gardener with over 40 years of gardening experience, is owner and developer of Aspen Grove Gardens, a six-acre botanical garden featuring over 2,500 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert has published articles in Mother Earth News , Ontario Gardening magazine, the widely read blog GardenMyths.com, which explodes common gardening myths and gardening information site GardenFundamentals.com. Introduction 1. Understanding a Balanced Ecosystem Oxygen Cycle Nutrients pH Algae Animals Trees and Shrubs Plants Microbes Maintaining Balance in the Ecosystem 2. Environmental Benefits Pond Ecosystem Breeding Site for Amphibians Dragonflies and Mosquitoes Birds and Mammals Water Conservation Environmental Awareness Less Lawn Permaculture Food Sources 3. Natural Looking Designs Native Ponds Man-made Ponds How Natural Can You Get? The Borrowed View Enjoy the Pond Stones, Stones, and More Stones Plants Are Key Your Final Design 4. Planning and Design Location Legal Issues Access to Electrical Power Size Depth Water Source Bogs and Rain Gardens Trees Pond Liners Human Access Rocks Shape of the Pond and Planting Shelves Plants Excavated Soil 5. Building Site Evaluation Soil Type Installing a Preformed Pond Flexible Pond Liners Digging the Hole for a Flexible Liner Preparing the Hole Installing the Pond Liner Footings for a Dock or Bridge Adding Water Protecting Planting Shelves Stones for the Planting Shelf Leveling the Pond Edge Adding the Spillway Allowing for Inflow Edging the Pond Adding the Finishing Touches 6. Fish Fish Care Hobby Fish Game Fish 7. Plants Planting Fertilizing Starting Small Too Many Plants Plant Pests and Diseases Undesirable Pond Plants Selection of Water Plants Workhorse Water Plants 8. Maintenance and Troubleshooting Don't Do These Things Adding Water Removing Organics Winter Care Pond Leaks 9. Large-scale Ponds Special Pond Types Regulations and Permits Water Sources Liner Options General Construction Considerations Aerators and Fountains Constructing Dams Designing the Inflow Designing the Outflow Plants Eutrophication 10. Pools, Bogs, and Rain Gardens Natural Swimming Pools Bogs Rain Gardens References Index About the Author A Note About the Publisher

Building Natural Ponds
Robert Pavlis
1h24min00
Jardinage
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Build a natural pond for wildlife, beauty, and quiet contemplation Typical backyard ponds are a complicated mess of pipes, pumps, filters, and nasty chemicals designed to adjust pH and keep algae at bay. Hardly the bucolic, natural ecosystem beloved by dragonflies, frogs, and songbirds. The antidote is a natural pond, free of hassle, cost, and complexity and designed as a fully functional ecosystem, ideal for biodiversity, swimming, irrigation, and quiet contemplation. Building Natural Ponds is the first step-by-step guide to designing and building natural ponds that use no pumps, filters, chemicals, or electricity and mimic native ponds in both aesthetics and functionality. Highly illustrated with how-to drawings and photographs, coverage includes: Understanding pond ecosystems and natural algae control Planning, design, siting, and pond aesthetics Step-by-step guidance for construction, plants and fish, and maintenance and trouble shooting Scaling up to large ponds, pools, bogs, and rain gardens. Whether you're a backyard gardener looking to add a small serene natural water feature or a homesteader with visions of a large pond for fish, swimming, and irrigation, Building Natural Ponds is the complete guide to building ponds in tune with nature, where plants, insects, and amphibians thrive in blissful serenity. Robert Pavlis , a Master Gardener with over 40 years of gardening experience, is owner and developer of Aspen Grove Gardens, a six-acre botanical garden featuring over 2,500 varieties of plants. A well-respected speaker and teacher, Robert has published articles in Mother Earth News , Ontario Gardening magazine, the widely read blog GardenMyths.com, which explodes common gardening myths and gardening information site GardenFundamentals.com. Introduction 1. Understanding a Balanced Ecosystem Oxygen Cycle Nutrients pH Algae Animals Trees and Shrubs Plants Microbes Maintaining Balance in the Ecosystem 2. Environmental Benefits Pond Ecosystem Breeding Site for Amphibians Dragonflies and Mosquitoes Birds and Mammals Water Conservation Environmental Awareness Less Lawn Permaculture Food Sources 3. Natural Looking Designs Native Ponds Man-made Ponds How Natural Can You Get? The Borrowed View Enjoy the Pond Stones, Stones, and More Stones Plants Are Key Your Final Design 4. Planning and Design Location Legal Issues Access to Electrical Power Size Depth Water Source Bogs and Rain Gardens Trees Pond Liners Human Access Rocks Shape of the Pond and Planting Shelves Plants Excavated Soil 5. Building Site Evaluation Soil Type Installing a Preformed Pond Flexible Pond Liners Digging the Hole for a Flexible Liner Preparing the Hole Installing the Pond Liner Footings for a Dock or Bridge Adding Water Protecting Planting Shelves Stones for the Planting Shelf Leveling the Pond Edge Adding the Spillway Allowing for Inflow Edging the Pond Adding the Finishing Touches 6. Fish Fish Care Hobby Fish Game Fish 7. Plants Planting Fertilizing Starting Small Too Many Plants Plant Pests and Diseases Undesirable Pond Plants Selection of Water Plants Workhorse Water Plants 8. Maintenance and Troubleshooting Don't Do These Things Adding Water Removing Organics Winter Care Pond Leaks 9. Large-scale Ponds Special Pond Types Regulations and Permits Water Sources Liner Options General Construction Considerations Aerators and Fountains Constructing Dams Designing the Inflow Designing the Outflow Plants Eutrophication 10. Pools, Bogs, and Rain Gardens Natural Swimming Pools Bogs Rain Gardens References Index About the Author A Note About the Publisher

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Affiche du document Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition — Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition
John Taylor Gatto
45min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom. Former New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto reveals how compulsory schooling creates dependent workers instead of independent thinkers, replacing natural curiosity with rule-following conformity. Over 30 years of classroom experience led to his revolutionary discovery: genius is as common as dirt, but conventional education systematically destroys it. Why This Educational Awakening Matters Now: After 100+ years of mandatory schooling, literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, and children are increasingly disaffected. This isn't failure - it's the system working exactly as designed to produce compliant workers rather than creative thinkers. What You'll Discover: The hidden curriculum that trains children for industrial compliance instead of critical thinking Step-by-step strategies for transitioning from school-based to self-directed learning How to identify and nurture your child's natural learning style and interests Practical methods for creating engaging educational experiences without formal curriculum Real-world approaches to developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and life skills Community resources and support networks for families choosing educational alternatives 25 Years of Proven Impact: This bestseller has guided over 100,000 families toward educational freedom, with children achieving remarkable academic and personal success through self-directed learning. Zachary Slayback, Ivy League dropout and tech entrepreneur, provides a powerful new foreword demonstrating how Gatto's principles create innovators and leaders. Your child's natural love of learning can't wait for education reform. Start implementing these time-tested strategies immediately to unlock their intellectual potential and creativity. Join thousands of families discovering that education works best when it honors children's innate curiosity. Foreword, by Zachary Slayback Preface - About the Author 1. The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher 2. The Psychopathic School 3. The Green Monongahela 4. We Need Less School, Not More 5. The Congregational Principle Extra Bonus Chapter: Against School Afterword Postscript 2005 - From the Publisher Postscript 2017 - From the Publisher Also available by John Taylor Gatto A Note about New Society Publishers

Dumbing Us Down - 25th Anniversary Edition
John Taylor Gatto
45min00
Sciences humaines et sociales
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Transform your child's education from institutional compliance to intellectual freedom. Former New York State Teacher of the Year John Taylor Gatto reveals how compulsory schooling creates dependent workers instead of independent thinkers, replacing natural curiosity with rule-following conformity. Over 30 years of classroom experience led to his revolutionary discovery: genius is as common as dirt, but conventional education systematically destroys it. Why This Educational Awakening Matters Now: After 100+ years of mandatory schooling, literacy rates have dropped, families are fragmented, and children are increasingly disaffected. This isn't failure - it's the system working exactly as designed to produce compliant workers rather than creative thinkers. What You'll Discover: The hidden curriculum that trains children for industrial compliance instead of critical thinking Step-by-step strategies for transitioning from school-based to self-directed learning How to identify and nurture your child's natural learning style and interests Practical methods for creating engaging educational experiences without formal curriculum Real-world approaches to developing critical thinking, problem-solving, and life skills Community resources and support networks for families choosing educational alternatives 25 Years of Proven Impact: This bestseller has guided over 100,000 families toward educational freedom, with children achieving remarkable academic and personal success through self-directed learning. Zachary Slayback, Ivy League dropout and tech entrepreneur, provides a powerful new foreword demonstrating how Gatto's principles create innovators and leaders. Your child's natural love of learning can't wait for education reform. Start implementing these time-tested strategies immediately to unlock their intellectual potential and creativity. Join thousands of families discovering that education works best when it honors children's innate curiosity. Foreword, by Zachary Slayback Preface - About the Author 1. The Seven-Lesson Schoolteacher 2. The Psychopathic School 3. The Green Monongahela 4. We Need Less School, Not More 5. The Congregational Principle Extra Bonus Chapter: Against School Afterword Postscript 2005 - From the Publisher Postscript 2017 - From the Publisher Also available by John Taylor Gatto A Note about New Society Publishers

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Affiche du document Green Restorations — Green Restorations
Aaron Lubeck
3h48min45
Bricolage et décoration
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Some 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of wildly divergent information and opinion. With Green Restorations , author Aaron Lubeck brings his expertise as a restoration contractor and preservation consultant to this first-of-its-kind guide, leading the reader through the steps for restoring historic building using sustainable practices and green building techniques. In a readily accessible room-by-room and system-by-system format, Green Restorations covers rehabilitation and remodelling questions applicable to old homes, focusing on the core techniques and debates often seen in practice. Here you'll find the answers to restoration questions, such as: Is sealing my old crawl space a good idea? Should I replace or rehabilitate my windows? Are there historic aspects of my home I need to preserve and what can I change? What are the cultural, environmental and financial implications of my proposed changes? Do residential historic tax credits apply to my home and how can I access them? Written in such a way as to be accessible for homeowners but technical enough for contractors, this book will appeal to anyone trying to green an older home while preserving its historic and cultural significance.

Green Restorations
Aaron Lubeck
3h48min45
Bricolage et décoration
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Some 40 percent of North Americans live in homes built prior to 1940, and when it comes time to remodel or restore our older homes, homeowners and contractors can find themselves lost in a morass of wildly divergent information and opinion. With Green Restorations , author Aaron Lubeck brings his expertise as a restoration contractor and preservation consultant to this first-of-its-kind guide, leading the reader through the steps for restoring historic building using sustainable practices and green building techniques. In a readily accessible room-by-room and system-by-system format, Green Restorations covers rehabilitation and remodelling questions applicable to old homes, focusing on the core techniques and debates often seen in practice. Here you'll find the answers to restoration questions, such as: Is sealing my old crawl space a good idea? Should I replace or rehabilitate my windows? Are there historic aspects of my home I need to preserve and what can I change? What are the cultural, environmental and financial implications of my proposed changes? Do residential historic tax credits apply to my home and how can I access them? Written in such a way as to be accessible for homeowners but technical enough for contractors, this book will appeal to anyone trying to green an older home while preserving its historic and cultural significance.

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Affiche du document How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change — How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
Harriet Shugarman
6h10min30
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyBuilding grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyWith catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis?Help is at hand. Written by Harriet Shugarman – the Climate Mama and trusted advisor to parents – How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Coverage includes: The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency, where we are at, and how we got here Strategies for talking to kids of different ages about the climate crisis, including advice from engaged parents on the ground How to maintain our own hope and that of our children A list of practical actions families can take to tackle the climate change crisisIdeas for helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable, just, and sustainable world. A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit of a better world that is still possible. Acknowledgments Dedication Epigraph Preface: This Book Is for You What This Book Does Timing Is Everything 1. Introduction: Awakening to Our Climate EmergencyDropping the Climate Change Bomb Why We Should Be Concerned The Solutions Puzzle Climate Awakening: Climate Reality ClimateMama Beginnings Memorable Blog Posts 2. Thanks for the Ride, Dinosaurs: Science, Politics, Growth, and Justice Science Politics Growth Justice 3. Coming to Grips with Climate Change As a Parent: From Grief to Hope to Resolve to Action Coming to Terms with Reality Grief Hope Resolve Action Trusted Messengers 4. Leading by Example Find Your Superpower Name What You Are Working to Save and Why Climate Curriculum Parent Climate Activists 5. Transitioning from Angst to Action: Preschool through Middle School The Climate Conversation: Preschool through Middle School Engaging Your Child on Climate Action: Preschool through Middle SchoolKeeping Children Involved at All Ages 6. Pursuing Passions through the Lens of Climate Action: High School, College, and Beyond How to Share the Reality of Our Climate Crisis with Our Grown Children Supporting Climate Activism 7. Creating a Million Ripples: From Me to We Thinking in Systems and Channeling Systemic Change Scaling Solutions Being the Change We Wish to See Vote, Vote, VoteFollow Up: Preparing for Our Climate Emergency Plant Seeds: Literally and Figuratively From Me to We Resources Youth-Led or Youth-Focused Organizations Parent-Focused Organizations Climate Action and Education Websites Climate News Websites Climate Justice Notable Books Climate Science Climate Action Organizing and Book Club Guide Guide Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change
Harriet Shugarman
6h10min30
Sciences de la vie et de la nature
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Building grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyBuilding grit and hope in the face of the climate emergencyWith catastrophic global warming already baked into the climate system, today's children face a future entirely unlike that of their parents. Yet how can we maintain hope and make a difference in the face of overwhelming evidence of the climate crisis?Help is at hand. Written by Harriet Shugarman – the Climate Mama and trusted advisor to parents – How to Talk to Your Kids About Climate Change provides tools and strategies for parents to explain the climate emergency to their children and galvanize positive action. Coverage includes: The unvarnished realities of the climate emergency, where we are at, and how we got here Strategies for talking to kids of different ages about the climate crisis, including advice from engaged parents on the ground How to maintain our own hope and that of our children A list of practical actions families can take to tackle the climate change crisisIdeas for helping children follow their passions in pursuit of a livable, just, and sustainable world. A lifeline for parents who are feeling overwhelmed with fear and grief, this book provides both hope and practical ways to engage children in pursuit of a better world that is still possible. Acknowledgments Dedication Epigraph Preface: This Book Is for You What This Book Does Timing Is Everything 1. Introduction: Awakening to Our Climate EmergencyDropping the Climate Change Bomb Why We Should Be Concerned The Solutions Puzzle Climate Awakening: Climate Reality ClimateMama Beginnings Memorable Blog Posts 2. Thanks for the Ride, Dinosaurs: Science, Politics, Growth, and Justice Science Politics Growth Justice 3. Coming to Grips with Climate Change As a Parent: From Grief to Hope to Resolve to Action Coming to Terms with Reality Grief Hope Resolve Action Trusted Messengers 4. Leading by Example Find Your Superpower Name What You Are Working to Save and Why Climate Curriculum Parent Climate Activists 5. Transitioning from Angst to Action: Preschool through Middle School The Climate Conversation: Preschool through Middle School Engaging Your Child on Climate Action: Preschool through Middle SchoolKeeping Children Involved at All Ages 6. Pursuing Passions through the Lens of Climate Action: High School, College, and Beyond How to Share the Reality of Our Climate Crisis with Our Grown Children Supporting Climate Activism 7. Creating a Million Ripples: From Me to We Thinking in Systems and Channeling Systemic Change Scaling Solutions Being the Change We Wish to See Vote, Vote, VoteFollow Up: Preparing for Our Climate Emergency Plant Seeds: Literally and Figuratively From Me to We Resources Youth-Led or Youth-Focused Organizations Parent-Focused Organizations Climate Action and Education Websites Climate News Websites Climate Justice Notable Books Climate Science Climate Action Organizing and Book Club Guide Guide Notes Index About the Author About New Society Publishers

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Margaret Klein Salamon
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Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs.Salamon initiated the global political movement to acknowledge the climate emergency through her organization, The Climate Mobilization. In 15 countries, over 1000 jurisdictions have declared a climate emergency; 25 of these are in the US. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to 121 million citizens. See complete list here: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizens/Salamon is a graduate of Harvard University with a PhD from Adelphi University in clinical psychology. Salamon is a respected influencer with a wide range of contacts including Extinction Rebellion, 350.org. and other climate change groups. Extensive social media platform: Facebook @TheClimateMobilzation over 19K followers Twitter @mobilizeclimate 5,500, @climatepsych 3,500, mailing list to 14,000 followersThis is a radical self-help book that will help the reader face fears about climate change. Author's book has been featured in the New Yorker March 6, 2019; New York Magazine; The Current on CBC. Combines elements of psychology, self-help, memoir, and social movements Shares Salamon's personal story of a radical transformation in the face of climate catastrophe Specific to help the reader use feelings to transform themselves and motivate collective change Differs from other books because itcombines facing climate facts with tenets of psychological theory investigates the psychology of denial and pluralistic ignorance provides specific information about the climate emergency movement has elements of memoir gives lessons for best practices coaching and how to turn feelings of pain, grief, and anger into action enables readers to become effective change agents Includes recommendations for further reading Questions for self-reflection Exercises to complete with like-minded groups Accessible and non-academic Endorsements: Salamon's foundation is forging relationships with Greta Thunberg, activist; Adam McKay, director; Daniel Pinchbeck, author, Breaking Open the Head; Anya Kamenetz, author, The Art of Screen Time; and Genevieve Guenther, founder, EndClimateSilence.org. At the time of writing, these locations in the US have declared a climate emergency:Almeda, CAAnn Arbor, MIBerkeley, CAChico, CACrystal Bay, MNDavis, CADuluth, MNFairfax, CAHayward, CAHoboken, NJLos Angeles, CAManhasset, NYMarin County, CAMontgomery County, MDNapa, CANew Britain, CTNew Haven, CTNew York City, NYOakland, CAOuter Cape Cod, MAPalo Alto, CAPetaluma, CAPhiladelphia, PASacramento, CASan Diego, CASan Francisco, City and Region, CASanta Barbara, CASanta Cruz, City and County, CASonoma County, CAAudience: Anyone concerned about climate change, including those unable to act or in denial, climate change activists looking for better ways to initiate change, anyone feeling anxiety about the futureRegional: NYC – Network includes approximately 75 leading climate influencersCalifornia – Focus for The Climate Mobilization workWashington, DC – Centre for climate professionals, about 40 personal connections thereCambridge and Boston – Salamon went to school there and is still active in the climate change communityPhiladelphia – Salamon's in-laws live there and have extensive network through Green Building CouncilAnn Arbor – Salamon s hometown and parents homeHawaii – Where the book was writtenInternational: Salamon works with Extinction Rebellion based in the UKAustralia/New Zealand – Climate Emergency is well-known; Salamon has good connections in Melbourne specificallySweden and Germany – Very active in the climate emergency movementCanada – 435 governments in Canada have declared a climate emergency Complete list: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizensQuebec has more climate emergency declarations than any other province or state in the US Vancouver – Salamon is connected to Seth Klein (Naomi Klein's brother) and Christine Boyle, Vancouver city councilor PrologueIntroductionStep One: Face Climate Truth Step Two: Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings Step Three: Reimagine Your Life Story Step Four: Understand and Enter Emergency ModeStep Five: Join the Climate Emergency MovementConclusion: Live as a Climate WarriorAdditional Resources: Continue Your JourneyEndnotesWorks CitedAbout the AuthorsAbout the OrganizationA Note about the Publisher

Facing the Climate Emergency
Margaret Klein Salamon
4h59min15
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399 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 4h59min.
Face the truth of climate change, accept your fears, and become the hero that humanity needs.Salamon initiated the global political movement to acknowledge the climate emergency through her organization, The Climate Mobilization. In 15 countries, over 1000 jurisdictions have declared a climate emergency; 25 of these are in the US. Populations covered by jurisdictions that have declared a climate emergency amount to 121 million citizens. See complete list here: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizens/Salamon is a graduate of Harvard University with a PhD from Adelphi University in clinical psychology. Salamon is a respected influencer with a wide range of contacts including Extinction Rebellion, 350.org. and other climate change groups. Extensive social media platform: Facebook @TheClimateMobilzation over 19K followers Twitter @mobilizeclimate 5,500, @climatepsych 3,500, mailing list to 14,000 followersThis is a radical self-help book that will help the reader face fears about climate change. Author's book has been featured in the New Yorker March 6, 2019; New York Magazine; The Current on CBC. Combines elements of psychology, self-help, memoir, and social movements Shares Salamon's personal story of a radical transformation in the face of climate catastrophe Specific to help the reader use feelings to transform themselves and motivate collective change Differs from other books because itcombines facing climate facts with tenets of psychological theory investigates the psychology of denial and pluralistic ignorance provides specific information about the climate emergency movement has elements of memoir gives lessons for best practices coaching and how to turn feelings of pain, grief, and anger into action enables readers to become effective change agents Includes recommendations for further reading Questions for self-reflection Exercises to complete with like-minded groups Accessible and non-academic Endorsements: Salamon's foundation is forging relationships with Greta Thunberg, activist; Adam McKay, director; Daniel Pinchbeck, author, Breaking Open the Head; Anya Kamenetz, author, The Art of Screen Time; and Genevieve Guenther, founder, EndClimateSilence.org. At the time of writing, these locations in the US have declared a climate emergency:Almeda, CAAnn Arbor, MIBerkeley, CAChico, CACrystal Bay, MNDavis, CADuluth, MNFairfax, CAHayward, CAHoboken, NJLos Angeles, CAManhasset, NYMarin County, CAMontgomery County, MDNapa, CANew Britain, CTNew Haven, CTNew York City, NYOakland, CAOuter Cape Cod, MAPalo Alto, CAPetaluma, CAPhiladelphia, PASacramento, CASan Diego, CASan Francisco, City and Region, CASanta Barbara, CASanta Cruz, City and County, CASonoma County, CAAudience: Anyone concerned about climate change, including those unable to act or in denial, climate change activists looking for better ways to initiate change, anyone feeling anxiety about the futureRegional: NYC – Network includes approximately 75 leading climate influencersCalifornia – Focus for The Climate Mobilization workWashington, DC – Centre for climate professionals, about 40 personal connections thereCambridge and Boston – Salamon went to school there and is still active in the climate change communityPhiladelphia – Salamon's in-laws live there and have extensive network through Green Building CouncilAnn Arbor – Salamon s hometown and parents homeHawaii – Where the book was writtenInternational: Salamon works with Extinction Rebellion based in the UKAustralia/New Zealand – Climate Emergency is well-known; Salamon has good connections in Melbourne specificallySweden and Germany – Very active in the climate emergency movementCanada – 435 governments in Canada have declared a climate emergency Complete list: https://climateemergencydeclaration.org/climate-emergency-declarations-cover-15-million-citizensQuebec has more climate emergency declarations than any other province or state in the US Vancouver – Salamon is connected to Seth Klein (Naomi Klein's brother) and Christine Boyle, Vancouver city councilor PrologueIntroductionStep One: Face Climate Truth Step Two: Welcome Fear, Grief, and Other Painful Feelings Step Three: Reimagine Your Life Story Step Four: Understand and Enter Emergency ModeStep Five: Join the Climate Emergency MovementConclusion: Live as a Climate WarriorAdditional Resources: Continue Your JourneyEndnotesWorks CitedAbout the AuthorsAbout the OrganizationA Note about the Publisher

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