Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the PlanetDavid Suzuki cuts through the gloom surrounding the current state of the world's natural resources, and draws attention to the numerous positive instances where private companies, communities and individual citizens are making a real difference to the environment. |
Contents
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Withdrawing Consent Practicing Democracy | 51 |
Using Coyotes to Grow Grass Restoring Biodiversity | 89 |
A River Runs Through It Save the Water | 127 |
Eating Humble Pie Growing Good Food | 161 |
Listen for the Jaguar Who Owns the Forests? | 205 |
Song of the Albatross Keeping Some Fish in the Sea | 242 |
Wrestling with Pluto Cutting Toxins Cleansing Air | 276 |
Breaking Out of the Box New Ways to Think and to Learn | 316 |
Epilogue | 351 |
List of Organizations | 357 |
Notes | 373 |
Bibliography | 386 |
Index | 388 |
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Good News for a Change: How Everyday People are Helping the Planet David Suzuki,Holly Dressel Limited preview - 2009 |
Good News for a Change: How everyday people are helping the planet David Suzuki,Holly Dressel Limited preview - 2003 |
Good News For A Change: How Everyday People Are Helping The Planet David T. Suzuki,Holly Dressel No preview available - 2003 |
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Page 92 - The lands of the State, now owned or hereafter acquired, constituting the forest preserve as now fixed by law, shall be forever kept as wild forest lands. They shall not be leased, sold or exchanged, or be taken by any corporation, public or private, nor shall the timber thereon be sold, removed or destroyed.
Page 115 - The last word in ignorance is the man who says of an animal or plant: 'What good is it?' If the land mechanism as a whole is good, then every part is good, whether we understand it or not. If the biota, in the course of aeons, has built something we like but do not understand, then who but a fool would discard seemingly useless parts? To keep every cog and wheel is the first precaution of intelligent tinkering.
Page 89 - If I should tell you how some have killed a hundred geese in a week, fifty ducks at a shot, forty teals at another, it may be counted ^impossible though nothing more certain.
Page 15 - The return from your work must be the satisfaction which that work brings you and the world's need of that work. With this, life is heaven, or as near heaven as you can get.
Page 290 - To be absolutely clear - we must now focus on what can and what should be done, not because we can be certain climate change is happening, but because the possibility can't be ignored.
Page 19 - Step states that in order for a society to be sustainable, nature's functions and diversity cannot continue to be systematically impoverished by: 1.
Page 168 - high technology and bureaucratic" solution in the event proved counter-productive, and was the major factor behind the yield and cropped areas declines experienced between 1982 and 1985. . . . The cost of the lack of appreciation of the merits of the traditional regime has been high. Project experience highlights the fact that the irrigated rice terraces of Bali form a complex artificial ecosystem which has been recognized locally over...
Page 19 - ... 4: In a sustainable society, resources are used fairly and efficiently in order to meet basic human needs...
Page 276 - In order for a society to be sustainable, Nature's functions and diversity are not systematically: • subject to increasing concentrations of substances extracted from the earth's crust...