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This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the
social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach
as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin
the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to
conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As
well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also
offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and
proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case
studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this
approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and
green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It
suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable,
requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be
essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the
conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and
the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it
concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of
'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises. This book
will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social
and climate justice advocates/activists.
This book calls for more holistic place-based action to address the
social and environmental crisis, deploying the Deep Place approach
as one contribution to the toolbox of actions that will underpin
the UN Decade of Action towards the Sustainable Development Goals.
The authors suggest that 'place' is a critical window on how to
conceive a resolution to the multiple and overlapping crises. As
well as diagnosing the problem (the world as it is), this book also
offers a normative advocacy (the world as it could/should be and
proposed pathways to get there). A series of 'Deep Place' case
studies from the UK, Australia, and Vanuatu help to illustrate this
approach. Ultimately, the book argues for the need for a real and
green 'new deal' and identifies what this should be like. It
suggests that a new economic order, whilst eventually inevitable,
requires radical change. This will not be easy but will be
essential given the current impasse, caused, not least by the
conjunction of carbon-based, neoliberal capitalism in crisis and
the multifactorial global ecological crisis. Ultimately, it
concludes that there is a need to develop a new model of
'regenerative collectivism' to overcome these crises. This book
will be of interest to academics, policy practitioners, and social
and climate justice advocates/activists.
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Orion's Egg (Paperback)
John Thrasher, Brennan Mcdavid, Mark Lang
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R197
Discovery Miles 1 970
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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In the aftermath of the March 11, 2011 Japanese tsunami and
Fukushima nuclear disaster, millions of tons of debris are about to
invade America's West Coast. The debris has carried with it an
ecosystem bathed in radioactive waste. Could that foreign waste and
marine life carry with it a mutated contagion so virulent it could
wipe out the human race? Seismobiologist, Martin Ford, isn't
psychic but uses his knowledge of animal behavior to foretell
earthquakes. His latest prophecy, a megaquake along the Pacific
Ring of Fire, compels him to convince California Governor Malcolm
Finch to evacuate the coast. However, his warnings are neglected.
But when his prediction materializes, the occupants of San
Francisco University Hospital (SFUH) are quarantined and the city
of San Francisco placed under martial law. Within SFUH, a deadly
contagion is spreading. Martin Ford must save his fiancee, held
under quarantine, before she contracts the deadly disease. But when
he uncovers the truth about the deadly contagion, he's ordered
killed by the President of the United States.
At the same time that North Americans were focusing on the brave
actions of several Christian teens in the Columbine High School
shooting in Colorado, Canada was quietly having its own Columbine
incident. What Canadians once thought 'could only happen in
America, ' was now taking place right here in our own backyard to
Jason Lang, the son of an Anglican pastor. But God had a plan for
this tragedy. Read the true and inspiring story of how a family's
torment was used by God as the 'raw material' to turn their anger
and grief into a powerful testimony of His grace, through the act
of forgiving their son's killer. Since Jason's death, both Dale and
his wife Diane have been asked to speak at hundreds of events
across the country, including over 250 high schools, numerous
conferences, teachers' conventions, the National Prayer Breakfast,
television, radio, churches and numerous other functions. "During
my interview with Pastor Dale Lang, I was struck by the depth of
his loss and the breadth of his capacity to forgive his son's
killer. This book will be an inspiration to everyone." -Jim
Cantelon, Host: Eye to Eye, CTS Television "Besides being a
renowned Anglican priest, few realize that Dale Lang holds a record
as being the first in history to fly over the North Pole in a hot
air balloon. Dale's steady hand and heart show the way through the
most inhospitable places in a world of heartache, sorrow, pain and
death. This book is 'A Journey into Joy.'" -David Mainse, 100
Huntley Street After becoming a Christian in 1978, Dale became a
youth worker. He had the privilege of winning the first Canadian
National Hot Air Balloon Championship in 1979, but later developed
a "Divine dissatisfaction,"desiring to do more for the Lord.
Eventually the Lord led him to seek ordination in the Anglican
Church. The Langs ministered at St. Theodore's Church in Taber for
15 years. Dale currently ministers around the country and at home
with the ministry The Rock with his son Mark. He has appeared as a
regular guest host of the daily television devotional "In His
Service" on 100 Huntley Street. Dale and Diane have five children:
Jeff, Mark, Matthew, Jennifer and Jason (shot and killed at his
school in 1999). They continue to live and minister in Taber,
Alberta.
At the same time that North Americans were focusing on the brave
actions of several Christian teens in the Columbine High School
shooting in Colorado, Canada was quietly having its own Columbine
incident. What Canadians once thought 'could only happen in
America,' was now taking place right here in our own backyard to
Jason Lang, the son of an Anglican pastor. But God had a plan for
this tragedy. Read the true and inspiring story of how a family's
torment was used by God as the 'raw material' to turn their anger
and grief into a powerful testimony of His grace, through the act
of forgiving their son's killer. Since Jason's death, both Dale and
his wife Diane have been asked to speak at hundreds of events
across the country, including over 250 high schools, numerous
conferences, teachers' conventions, the National Prayer Breakfast,
television, radio, churches and numerous other functions. "During
my interview with Pastor Dale Lang, I was struck by the depth of
his loss and the breadth of his capacity to forgive his son's
killer. This book will be an inspiration to everyone." -Jim
Cantelon, Host: Eye to Eye, CTS Television "Besides being a
renowned Anglican priest, few realize that Dale Lang holds a record
as being the first in history to fly over the North Pole in a hot
air balloon. Dale's steady hand and heart show the way through the
most inhospitable places in a world of heartache, sorrow, pain and
death. This book is 'A Journey into Joy.'" -David Mainse, 100
Huntley Street
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