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Environmental Sustainability
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The climate crisis has been long framed as an issue of either techno-utopian tinkering, entrusting a few billionaires to save the day, or of collective self-sacrifices - us versus us. Have fewer children. Buy organic. Drive less. Amid all the carbon shaming, it's worth recalling Occupy Wall Street's most enduring slogan: the 99 percent versus the 1 percent. If we didn't write ourselves subprime mortgages and we didn't on a whim decide to saddle ourselves with six figures worth of student debt, w
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― A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
― A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal
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Through the way it values - or does not - the finite resources of our planet, double entry [accounting] now has the potential to make or break life on the earth. We can continue to ignore the free gifts of nature in the accounts of our nations and corporations, and thereby continue to ruin the planet. Or we can begin to account for nature and make it thrive again. If numbers and money are the only language spoken in the global capitalist economy, then this is the language we must use. Accountant
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― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
― Double Entry: How the Merchants of Venice Shaped the Modern World
Ecco lo scaffale di lettura di Camilla, il primo emporio di comunità in Italia autogestito dai s…more
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It pays to do it right and now for posterity to survive.
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Readings relating to sustainability. Extra points if the books is relating to sustainability iss…more
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Let's grow a collection of great progressive books for kids. By progressive, I mean those foster…more
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