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  by mtmiller & 2 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Ursula K. Le Guin

Tags: psychology scifi dystopian environment dreams

2008-09-08

  by flashgordon

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Type: educational

Status: I recommend

Author: Enrico Wensing

Tags: psychology humanity environment growth sustainability transformation Green

Description: E.J. Wensing is the founder of Ecosphere Net (www.ecosphere.net). Based out of St. John inE.J. Wensing is the founder of Ecosphere Net (www.ecosphere.net). Based out of St. John in the US Virgin Islands, we are a global network providing powerful cross-cultural education for personal and global sustainability. This book introduces a new approach to global sustainability, one that links conversation, action and research in a continuous cycle of exploration and discovery. The first part of this approach is called I Am Sustainability. It is a curriculum for personal and global sustainability that we continually create and recreate together across all cultures of the world. This book starts the I Am Sustainability conversation, action and research with an opening argument that describes how all of the human impediments to global sustainability begin in a single human problem, that is, the psychology of the currently disproportionate human need to belong to competitive social groups.

While competition can bring out the best in us, it also brings out the worst in us. For instance, it results in our overconsumption and exploitative behaviors toward the environment and other humans. Who we are, our "self", is almost entirely defined, maintained and lost in the competitive social groups we chose to belong to. As described in this book, the best way to sustain the self is to ground our individuality in the body. An individual in a healthy balance between their "self" in their body and their group is also less likely to be exploitative of others and the environment. So you get your self and save the planet too! ...

2008-08-31

  by vtuli09ss

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Type: special

Status: —

Author: unknown

Tags: politics, environment free family, freedom, speech, liberal,

Description: Mary Lyon, in this interview, shows why she is an island of sanity in a sea of madness. HerMary Lyon, in this interview, shows why she is an island of sanity in a sea of madness. Her ideas about the environment, parenting and politics are refreshing, practical and doable. Above all, Mary confirms passion and action are inseparable...

2008-08-07

  by linguamichael & 17 users

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Type: fiction

Status: I recommend

Author: Michael Crichton

Tags: thriller terrorism environment disaster nature

2006-12-27

  by linguamichael

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Type: documentary

Status: on hold

Author: Wallace Kaufman

Tags: environment

2006-12-26

  by skullsodomizingpiano

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Type: documentary

Status: now reading

Author: James Howard Kunstler

Tags: nonfiction environment civilization end_times peak_oil

2006-10-07

  by riva & 79 users

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Type: fiction

Status: finished

Author: Margaret Atwood

Tags: fiction religion feminism dystopia politics futuristic environment

2006-07-11

  by schfifty & 8 users

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Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Gregory Maguire

Tags: fantasy action fiction adventure environment girl individual appearence heartwarming

2006-06-06

  by schfifty & 18 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: liked

Author: Gregory Maguire

Tags: fantasy action fiction adventure environment girl individual appearence heartwarming

2006-06-06

  by schfifty & 7 users

• Current

Type: fiction

Status: to read

Author: Gregory Maguire

Tags: fantasy action fiction adventure environment girl individual appearence heartwarming

2006-06-06