Future People
Title | Future People PDF eBook |
Author | Tim Mulgan |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-11-20 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780199556731 |
Tim Mulgan develops an original theory of our obligations to future generations, based on a new rule-consequentialist account of the morality of individual reproduction. He brings together several different contemporary philosophical issues, including the demands of morality and international justice.
Owning Our Future
Title | Owning Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | Marjorie Kelly |
Publisher | Berrett-Koehler Publishers |
Pages | 343 |
Release | 2012-07-04 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1609945220 |
A collection of company profiles that “succeeds in demonstrating how more sustainable business ventures can function in practice” (Publishers Weekly). As long as businesses are set up to focus exclusively on maximizing financial income for the few, our economy will be locked into endless growth and widening inequality. But now people are experimenting with new forms of ownership, which Marjorie Kelly calls generative: aimed at creating the conditions for life for many generations to come. These designs may hold the key to the deep transformation our civilization needs. To understand these emerging alternatives, Kelly reports from all over the world, visiting a community-owned wind facility in Massachusetts, a lobster cooperative in Maine, a multibillion-dollar employee-owned department-store chain in London, a foundation-owned pharmaceutical company in Denmark, a farmer-owned dairy in Wisconsin, and other places where a hopeful new economy is being built. Along the way, she finds the five essential patterns of ownership design that make these models work. “This magnificent book is a kind of recipe for how civilization might cope with its too-big-to-fail problem. It’s a hardheaded, clear-eyed, and therefore completely moving account of what a different world might look like—what it already does look like in enough places that you will emerge from its pages inspired to get involved.” —Bill McKibben, author of Deep Economy
This Could be Our Future
Title | This Could be Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | Yancey Strickler |
Publisher | |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0525560823 |
From the cofounder of Kickstarter comes a vision for building a society that looks beyond money and toward maximizing the values that make life worth living. Hopeful but firmly grounded, full of concrete solutions and bursting with creativity, this work brilliantly dissects the world we live in and shows us a road map to the world we are capable of making.
Our Future
Title | Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | Janet Wilson |
Publisher | Kids Making a Difference |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781772601039 |
These young people from across the globe are raising awareness about what issues matter to them most. Jaelun Parkerson from Texas kneels with his football teammates during the National Anthem to protest racial injustice; Canadian Autumn Peltier spoke in front of the United Nations to raise awareness about water pollution; and Melati Wijsen from Bali started working at twelve-years-old to convince his government to ban plastic bags. From oil pipelines to cyber bullying, from gun violence to animal protection, they don't let their youth stop them from being heard.
Vote for Our Future!
Title | Vote for Our Future! PDF eBook |
Author | Margaret McNamara |
Publisher | Schwartz & Wade |
Pages | 22 |
Release | 2020-02-18 |
Genre | Juvenile Fiction |
ISBN | 1984892827 |
In this charming and powerful picture book about voting and elections, the students of Stanton Elementary School learn how we can find--and use--our voices for change. Every two years, on the first Tuesday of November, Stanton Elementary School closes for the day. For vacation? Nope! For repairs? No way! Stanton Elementary School closes so that it can transform itself into a polling station. People can come from all over to vote for the people who will make laws for the country. Sure, the Stanton Elementary School students might be too young to vote themselves, but that doesn't mean they can't encourage their parents, friends, and family to vote! After all, voting is how this country sees change--and by voting today, we can inspire tomorrow's voters to change the future.
Farming for Our Future
Title | Farming for Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | PETER H.. ROSENBERG LEHNER (NATHAN A.) |
Publisher | |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2021-12-07 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781585762378 |
Farming for Our Future examines the policies and legal reforms necessary to accelerate the adoption of practices that can make agriculture in the United States climate-neutral or better. These proven practices will also make our food system more resilient to the impacts of climate change. Agriculture's contribution to climate change is substantial--much more so than official figures suggest--and we will not be able to achieve our overall mitigation goals unless agricultural emissions sharply decline. Fortunately, farms and ranches can be a major part of the climate solution, while protecting biodiversity, strengthening rural communities, and improving the lives of the workers who cultivate our crops and rear our animals. The importance of agricultural climate solutions can not be underestimated; it is a critical element both in ensuring our food security and limiting climate change. This book provides essential solutions to address the greatest crises of our time.
Our Future
Title | Our Future PDF eBook |
Author | John Edgar Hoover |
Publisher | |
Pages | 10 |
Release | 1942 |
Genre | Citizenship |
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