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The Vanishing Face of Gaia: Why would a ninety year old man choose to defy his most trusted physician? Because in an act of splendid generosity Sir Richard Branson offered him the chance to fly into space, to share that transcendental feeling known only to astronauts more... |
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Weapons of Mass Instruction: John Taylor Gatto taught in the public system for 29 years and eight months. He was named New York City Teacher of the year in 1989, 1990, and 1991, and New York State Teacher of the Year in 1991. more... |
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5 min Audio Preview | read by Michael Puttonen
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Dumbing Us Down: What does the school do with the children? John Taylor Gatto, an award winning teacher with 29 years experience, answers this question in Dumbing Us Down. He argues that school confuses children... more... |
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College Without High School: High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment? more... |
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Peak Everything: The 20th century saw unprecedented growth in population, energy consumption and food production. As the population shifted from rural to urban, the impact of humans on the environment increased dramatically. The 21st century ushered in an era of... more... |
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Dry Run: Fresh water shortages are an increasingly serious global problem. With water restrictions emerging in many developed countries and water diversions for industrial, urban and environmental reasons stirring up oceans of controversy, there is a... more... |
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5 min Audio Preview | read by Michael Puttonen
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Thriving Beyond Sustainability: Every 15 seconds on our Earth Island, a child dies from waterborne disease. Three times an hour, another species becomes extinct. Each day we consume 85 million barrels of oil and pump 23 million tons of carbon dioxide into an already warming atmosphere... more... |
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On Gandhi's Path: Bigger has turned out not to be better. Servicing the global economy has exacted a heavy toll in the erosion of our communities and the destruction of our environment. Increasingly, we are coming to realize that the way forward... more... |
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A Nation of Farmers: Once we could fill our grocery carts with cheap and plentiful food, but not anymore. Cheap food has gone the way of cheap oil. Climate change is already reducing crop yields worldwide. The cost of flying in food from far away and shipping it across... more... |
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Branded!: Making responsible social and environmental choices has not always been a first priority for many corporations, but recent history has changed all that. Small but mighty NGOs, using 21st Century global communications, are nipping at the heels of... more... |
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The Natural Step Story: Few organizations have been as influential as The Natural Step in empowering and inspiring people to design a more sustainable world. In The Natural Step Story, Dr. Karl-Henrik Robrt describes firsthand the evolution of the Natural Step framework... more... |
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Fermenting Revolution: Fermenting Revolution delivers an empowering message about how individuals can change the world through the simple act of having a beer. It is also the first book to view all of the important trends in human history as fundamentally revolving... more... |
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Jennings' Diary It is the Easter term at Linbury Court School and Jennings has been promised five pounds by his aunt if he keeps up his diary every day. When he and Darbishire devise a code for entries, things really start to happen... more... |
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15 min Audio Preview | read by Matt Walker
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According to Jennings The space-craze sweeps through Linbury Court School and the corridors reverberate with 'voom-voom' noises as rockets, piloted by "Butch Breakaway" Jennings and his "bald-headed scientist," Darbishire, take off for the moon. As Mr. Carter prophesies, the craze wears off, but not before.... more... |
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Our Friend Jennings With Jennings and Darbyshire around to solve them, even the simplest problems develop in an alarming fashion. The whole term moves along in a torrent of ups and downs, and though Darbyshire does his best to steer clear of trouble there is little hope for them so long as Jennings' fertile brain is at work.... more... |
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Thanks to Jennings |
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15 min Audio Preview | read by Matt Walker
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