Social ecology & change
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21st Century Garden Cities of To-Morrow
A ManifestoPhilip Ross and Yves CabannesIn 1898, Garden Cities of To-morrow – the peaceful path to reform was published. The movement it sparked led to the first-ever Garden City, Letchworth (UK). More recently, a former mayor of Letchworth, Philip Ross, joined the urban planner Yves Cabannes to write this book, a 21st-century update of the original.
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Adam Curle
Radical PeacemakerTom Woodhouse and John Paul Lederach£9.99This book captures Adam Curle’s core contributions in an accessible, edited form so that the breadth of his work can be introduced to a broader audience. It offers unique insights into the spiritual and external dimensions of making peace, and includes some striking personal poems from Adam himself.
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Breathing with the Climate Crisis
Lin Bautze, Ueli Hurter & Johannes Kronenberg£5.00A hopeful narrative about the climate crisis, a new, different perspective that could unleash the courage to act.
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Common Wealth
for a free, equal, mutual and sustainable societyMartin Large£10.00£5.00Just when ‘the market’ nearly took over all areas of life, the credit, climate and democratic crunches came along, challenging us to rebuild a society that works well for all. Common Wealth asks, ‘How can we build a more free, equal, mutual and sustainable society?’
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Commons Sense
Co-operative place making and the capturing of land value for 21st century Garden CitiesPat Conaty and Martin LargeHow Garden City and Community Land Trust methods enable ‘associative democracy’ vision to be put into practice through the development of social-public partnerships.
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Creative Place-Based Environmental Education
Children and Schools as Ecopreneurs for ChangeJorunn Barane, Aksel Hugo, Morten Clemetsen£19.99How can schools become creative hubs for enriching the community, for caring for nature, the landscape and place? This book presents the why, what and how of creative place-based education as action researched successfully by educators in Norway.
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Free, Equal and Mutual
Rebalancing Society for the Common Good£15.00A centenary anthology that draws on Rudolf Steiner’s vision for a free, equal and mutual society, a threefold commonwealth. Twenty cutting edge articles by 13 contributors show how the social threefold social order offers practical alternatives to the prevailing neo-liberal social order.
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Gardening for Life
The Biodynamic WayMaria Thun£14.99Biodynamic techniques recognise that plant life is intimately bound up with the life of the soil; that the soil itself is alive and that the degree of vitality influences the health of the crops. You will soon be able to grow quality produce which possesses vitality and has the highest flavour, through the nurture of the soil.
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In Place of the Self
How Drugs WorkRon DunselmanRon Dunselman sheds important light on addiction, so that both individuals and professionals can make more informed choices. Drawing on extensive research with drug users and his rehabilitation work as a psychologist, he offers remarkable insights.
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Organisations with Soul
A social path of schooling in the language of the human soulAdriaan BekmanHow can we connect more deeply with others at work? And connect more wholeheartedly with our work tasks, so as to create mutual support, respect, meaning and growth?
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Peace Journalism
Jake Lynch and Annabel McGoldrickPeace Journalism explains how most coverage of conflict unwittingly fuels further violence, and proposes workable options to give peace a chance.
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Re-Imagining America
Finding Hope in Difficult TimesChristopher Schaefer Ph.D£15.00£5.00Re-Imagining America analyses the ‘long emergency’ that is destroying the earth and human wellbeing. It suggests a practical vision of social change and personal growth for finding hope in difficult times.
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Social Ecology
Applying Ecological Understanding to Our Lives and Our Planet£25.00£10.00Social Ecology addresses the burning question of how to apply ecological understanding to every aspect of our lives. The 27 contributors, all of whom have directly or indirectly contributed to the teaching of social ecology in Australia and beyond, share their experiences in this ‘coming of age’ anthology of keynote articles.