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Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
they will move in stages, first to cities, then out of countries and off continents on a scale so vast that it promises to transform much that is familiar about our cities and societies, our cultures and our economies. In Europe, the fast and large displacement of people from Syria and North Africa—which peaked at around two million migrants in
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Self-Study Guide Weaving Networks for Systemic Change
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Michael Crichton • Jurassic Park: A Novel
misplaced sense of rightful dominion over local communities, landscapes and wildlife. Reading their proposal in the same
Julian Hoffman • Irreplaceable: The fight to save our wild places
With the railroad blown away by the hurricane, and the FEC through with the Keys forever, the state of Florida stepped into the breach, determining to use the abandoned right-of-way and the still-standing bridge spans as the route for a highway through the Keys. The road was finally completed in 1938, though it took the Second World…
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Les Standiford • Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an Ocean

John Locke, who held that individuals had a right to turn natural resources that belonged to no one into individual property for personal use, through labor. The Lockean idea justified all manner of accomplishments and violations in American history, including the colonial seizure of Native lands and the justification of resource extraction via the
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