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title
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Worldchanging : a user’s guide for the 21st century / edited by Alex Steffen ; foreword by Al Gore ; design by Sagmeister Inc.
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published
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New York : Abrams, 2006.
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description
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596 p. : ill. (chiefly col.), col. map ; 25 cm.
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all locations
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location
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SU Blackwell Library Stacks | HC79.E5 W676 2006 Holdings Availability
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Towson University Stacks | HC79.E5 W676 2006 Holdings Availability
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location
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UMCP McKeldin Library Stacks | HC79.E5 W676 2006 Holdings Availability
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internet link
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Table of contents only: http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip0616/2006021673.html
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notes
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 538-546) and index.
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contents
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STUFF: Questioning consumption -- Consuming responsibly -- Understanding trade -- Creating healthy homes -- Doing the right thing can be delicious -- Buying better food everywhere -- Eating better meat and fish -- Preserving barnyard biodiversity -- Cars and fuel -- Bright green consumerism -- Designing a sustainable world -- Picking green materials -- Craft it yourself -- Engineer it yourself -- Art meets technology -- Biomimicry -- Nanotechnology -- Neobiological industry -- Knowing what’s green -- Producer responsibility -- Collaborative design -- Open source -- Design for development -- Bright green computers -- SHELTERS: Green remodeling -- Building a green home -- Living well in a compact space -- Developing green housing -- Furniture and home decor -- Lighting -- Energy -- Using energy efficiently -- Green power -- Going off the grid -- Smart grids -- Water -- Conserving water -- Thinking differently about water -- Landscaping -- EcoHouse Brazil -- Refugees --
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Reinventing the refugee camp -- Transforming disaster relief -- Open-source humanitarian design -- Land mines -- Rethinking refugee reconstruction -- CITIES: The bright green city -- Vancouver -- Portland -- Retrofitting the suburbs -- Big green buildings and skyscrapers -- Healing polluted land -- Greening infrastructure -- Place-making -- Urban transportation -- Product-service systems -- Chinese cities of the future -- Lagos -- Megacity innovations -- The hidden vitality of slums -- Leapfrogging -- ICT4D -- Brazil’s Telecentros -- Leapfrogging infrastructure -- COMMUNITY: Holistic problem solving -- Education and literacy -- Educating girls and empowering women -- Public health -- South-south science -- Copyfight -- Urban community development -- Community capital -- Microfinance -- Social entrepreneurship -- Giving well -- The barefoot college -- Travel and tourism -- Global culture -- BUSINESS: Your money -- Creating business value from sustainability -- Green marketing --
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Brands -- Thriving in a bright green economy -- Seeing the big picture -- Start-up 101 -- POLITICS: Movement building -- Networking politics -- Amplifying your voice -- Connecting with others -- Tools for talking -- Demanding transparency -- Demanding human rights -- Watching the watchers -- Protest -- Direct action -- Nonviolent revolution -- Ending violence -- PLANET: Placing yourself -- Citizen science -- Restoration ecology -- Ecosystem services -- Biodiversity: how much nature is enough? Sustainable forestry -- Creating rural sustainability in the global south -- Future of the small town -- Local greenhouse forecast -- Climate foresight -- A personal action plan -- Mapping -- Charting the deep oceans -- Polar regions -- The solar system: greens in space -- Imagining the future.
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subjects
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 Environmentalism.
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Sustainable development.
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Green movement.
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other author
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Steffen, Alex.
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format
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Book
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ISBN
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0810930951 (hardcover)
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9780810930957 (hardcover)
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0810993384 (pbk.)
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9780810993389 (pbk.)
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