common ground in a liquid city: essays in defense of an urban future

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If we want to preserve what's still left of the natural world, we need to stop using so much of it. And, says veteran environmental activist Matt Hern, cities are the best chance we have left for a truly ecological future . . . but what does it take to make a truly sustainable city?

Common Ground in a Liquid City is a fun and engaging look at the future of urban life. Hern takes us on a journey through over a dozen urban centers, from Vancouver to Istanbul, Las Vegas, and beyond, exploring the history and current composition of cities around the globe and highlighting the elements of each that make it livable.

Each of Hern's ten chapters focuses on a central theme of city life: diversity, street life, crime, population density, water and natural life, gentrification, and globalism. What emerges in the end is an appealing portrait of what the urban future might look like—environmentally friendly, locally focused, and governed from below.

Matt Hern is an inveterate city dweller and an environmental and education activist. The editor of Everywhere All the Time: A New Deschooling Reader and the author of Deschooling Our Lives and Field Day, he founded Vancouver's Car-Free Day and is the director of the Purple Thistle Center for alternative education. These days, he lives in Vancouver with his partner and daughters and lectures widely around the globe.

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resurrecting common sense in america

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An essay series intended to provide the reader with historical perspective on societal problems facing America today while offering progressive, moderate and conservative solutions to those same problems. The essay series examines issues from American Health Care Reform to Tort Reform to Balancing the American Budget to the Beltway Disconnect to Foreign Policy and Environmental reform. The author sets up an ongoing narrative bringing with characters from American History to many of the elite minds of days long gone by. Resurrecting Common Sense in America may one day be considered "Fixing American Political Policy for Dummies." This essay series which first appeared on its own web site quickly found a national audience and demanded the move to an e-book format. Resurrecting Common Sense in America isn't a book for those who prefer to contend there is only one side to any debate. Perhaps its greatest strength remains, its core message, "We can make tomorrow a better world for everyone, if we learn from the past not to make the same mistakes.".......
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resurrecting common sense in america

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An essay series intended to provide the reader with historical perspective on societal problems facing America today while offering progressive, moderate and conservative solutions to those same problems. The essay series examines issues from American Health Care Reform to Tort Reform to Balancing the American Budget to the Beltway Disconnect to Foreign Policy and Environmental reform. The author sets up an ongoing narrative bringing with characters from American History to many of the elite minds of days long gone by. Resurrecting Common Sense in America may one day be considered "Fixing American Political Policy for Dummies." This essay series which first appeared on its own web site quickly found a national audience and demanded the move to an e-book format. Resurrecting Common Sense in America isn't a book for those who prefer to contend there is only one side to any debate. Perhaps its greatest strength remains, its core message, "We can make tomorrow a better world for everyone, if we learn from the past not to make the same mistakes.".......
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common wealth: economics for a crowded planet

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From one of the world's greatest economic minds, author of The New York Times bestseller The End of Poverty, a clear and vivid map of the road to sustainable and equitable global prosperity and an augury of the global economic collapse that lies ahead if we don't follow it

The global economic system now faces a sustainability crisis, Jeffrey Sachs argues, one that will overturn many of our basic assumptions about economic life. The changes will be deeper than a rebalancing of economics and politics among different parts of the world; the very idea of competing nation-states scrambling for power, resources, and markets will in some crucial respects become passŽ. The only question is how bad it will have to get before we face the unavoidable. We will have to learn on a global scale some of the hard lessons that successful societies have gradually and grudgingly learned within national borders: that there must be common ground between rich and poor, among competing ethnic groups, and between society and nature.

The central theme of Jeffrey Sachs's new book is that we need a new economic paradigm-global, inclusive, cooperative, environmentally aware, science-based-because we are running up against the realities of a crowded planet. The alternative is a worldwide economic collapse of unprecedented severity. Prosperity will have to be sustained through more cooperative processes, relying as much on public policy as on market forces to spread technology, address the needs of the poor, and to husband threatened resources of water, air, energy, land, and biodiversity. The "soft issues" of the environment, public health, and population will become the hard issues of geopolitics. New forms of global politics will in important ways replace capital-city-dominated national diplomacy and intrigue. National governments, even the U.S., will become much weaker actors as scientific networks and socially responsible investors and foundations become the more powerful actors.

If we do the right things, there is room for all on the planet. We can achieve the four key goals of a global society: prosperity for all, the end of extreme poverty, stabilization of the global population, and environmental sustainability. These are not utopian goals or pipedreams, yet they are far from automatic. Indeed, we are not on a successful trajectory now to achieve these goals. Common Wealth points the way to the course correction we must embrace for the sake of our common future........
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91 common everyday items that bring huge profits on ebay

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8-track players! That's just one of the 91 items listed in this booklet that you can sell for a nice profit on eBay. Most likely you have some of these gathering dust around your house. Many others can be found at garage sales and thrift stores for a fraction of what you could sell them for. So, do you need a little cash? Do you want to start your own business selling stuff on eBay? Buy this booklet and get started today!.......
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