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12 Articles match "Cuba","Economics","Research"

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Transformative Community Planning: Empowerment Through Community Development
Effective community development planning takes a comprehensive approach to meeting community needs--an approach that recognizes the interrelationship of economic, physical and social development. Prepared for the 1996 Planners Network Conference, "Renewing Hope, Restoring Vision: Progressive Planning in Our Communities." Rational, right?
The Green Changemakers - Monday, May 31, 2010
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Six Signs You’ve Become Disconnected from Nature & Reflections on Civilization
If you know you’re guilty of seeing nature only as food or a “resource” to be exploited or used up, you probably need to spend a week enjoying the beauty of nearby wilderness, to see how there is intrinsic value in nature, not just economic value. The site also explored climate change and its relation to Peak Oil and economic meltdown.
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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The Local Food and Farming Revolution
The economic downturn we’ve recently experienced is directly related to this dynamic. Worse, though most economists don’t want to consider this yet, peak oil signals the end of economic growth. We are learning that economic growth as we have known it is profoundly unsustainable. But I ask for your patience. Food is too cheap!
The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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  • Elinor Ostrom has transformed economics.
    Penny Kemp and Derek Wall This blog promotes anti-capitalism, green politics, direct action, practical lifestyle change, indigenous struggle, Venezuela/Cuba and a touch of Zen. was amazed to find that Elinor Ostrom, a 76-year-old professor, had won the Nobel Prize for economics. Tags: Survey Economics Green How to be green?
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, November 14, 2009
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  • The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil
    The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil - 53 min - Jul 6, 2008 [link] When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. It is an unusual look into the Cuban culture during this economic crisis, which they call "The Special Period." crash that put Cuba into a state of shock. Not here."
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, October 29, 2008
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  • CAN PEOPLE REMAIN HEALTHY IN A WORLD THAT IS SICK?
    It recognizes the inextricable links between humans and their biophysical, social, and economic environments, and that these links are reflected in a population’s state of health. Including slide presentations, short stories, case studies, research reports, books, etc., Tags: Health Research
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, March 27, 2010
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  • AGROPOLIS The Social, Political, and Environmental Dimensions of Urban Agriculture
    This book presents the first findings of original field research projects funded by IDRC ’s AGROPOLIS International Graduate Research Awards on Urban Agriculture. Countries studied include Argentina, Botswana, Côte d’Ivoire, Cuba, France, Togo, Tunisia, the UK, and Zimbabwe. Tags: Urban Research Agriculture
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, March 27, 2010
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  • Resource Center for Urban Agriculture and Food Security
    During the past 15 years, studies have shown that urban agriculture should be recognized as an integral and permanent element of the urban socio-economic and ecological system (Van Veenhuizen and Danso, 2007; Mougeot, 2006). Tags: Ebook Food Urban Research Agriculture What is urban agriculture? Since then the numbers have increased.
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, March 27, 2010
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  • FOR HUNGER-PROOF CITIES Sustainable Urban Food Systems
    Mougeot is Senior Program Specialist at the International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Canada. FOR HUNGER-PROOF CITIES Sustainable Urban Food Systems Edited by Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRae, Luc J.A. Mougeot, and Jennifer Welsh IDRC 1999 ISBN 0-88936-882-1 e-ISBN 1-55250-062-4 252 pp. Read an interview with Rod MacRae from Reports Online.
    The Green Changemakers - Saturday, March 27, 2010
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  • A Just Foreign Policy Resource Guide
    economic, military, and covert influence is waning—and why that’s a good thing. military overstretched by the war in Iraq, the dollar weakened, the federal budget deep in the red, and countries like China and India on the economic rise, it looks like the United States’ brief run as the world’s sole superpower is coming to a close.
    The Green Changemakers - Wednesday, June 11, 2008
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  • The Local Food and Farming Revolution
    The economic downturn we’ve recently experienced is directly related to this dynamic. Worse, though most economists don’t want to consider this yet, peak oil signals the end of economic growth. We are learning that economic growth as we have known it is profoundly unsustainable. But I ask for your patience. Food is too cheap!
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, March 30, 2010
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  • Transformative Community Planning: Empowerment Through Community Development
    Effective community development planning takes a comprehensive approach to meeting community needs--an approach that recognizes the interrelationship of economic, physical and social development. Prepared for the 1996 Planners Network Conference, "Renewing Hope, Restoring Vision: Progressive Planning in Our Communities." Rational, right?
    The Green Changemakers - Monday, May 31, 2010
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  • The Next Decade's Top Sustainability Trends
    Backed by research funding from the Obama Administration's US Department of Energy (DOE), companies such as Mascoma Corporation and Amyris Biotechnologies (with former Amyris founder Jay Keasling now at the helm of the DOE Joint Biosciences Energy Institute) are some of the current leaders in the quest for a non-food biofuel. Bikes Culture 2.0
    The Green Changemakers - Tuesday, January 12, 2010
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