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A Business Plan for Sustainable Living Part 4

DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PLANET A BUSINESS PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING IAN CHAMBERS & JOHN HUMBLE GOWER        2011 The Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series PART 4   Chapter 1: Understanding our Current Situation Understanding the issues It is important before we begin looking at plans and solutions that we have a good grasp …

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A Business Plan for Sustainable Living Part 2

DEVELOPING A PLAN FOR THE PLANET A BUSINESS PLAN FOR SUSTAINABLE LIVING IAN CHAMBERS & JOHN HUMBLE GOWER        2011 The Green Economics and Sustainable Growth Series PART 2   PART I: UNDERSTANDING OUR CURRENT SITUATION ‘No man is an island of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. …

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Competing for the Future

COMPETING FOR THE FUTURE BREAKTHROUGH STRATEGIES FOR SEIZING CONTROL OF YOUR INDUSTRY AND CREATING THE MARKETS OF TOMORROW GARY HAMEL & C.K. PRAHALAD HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL PRESS                       1994   Preface and acknowledgments The book you are holding is the record of a unique partnership spanning seventeen years. In 1977 one off us (Gary) was a …

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The Bottom Billion Part 1

THE BOTTOM BILLION WHY THE POOREST COUNTRIES ARE FAILING AND WHAT CAN BE DONE ABOUT IT PAUL COLLIER OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS              2007 PART 1 Preface When I graduated I wanted to put my knowledge of economics to use in Africa. Africa’s new countries were ill-equipped, and scarcely any Africans had received the sort of education …

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Feeding the Ten Billion Part 1

FEEDING THE TEN BILLION PLANTS AND POPULATION GROWTH L.T. EVANS CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS                  1998 PART 1 Back cover At the current rate of increase, the world’s population is likely to reach ten billion by the middle of the 21st century. What will be the challenges posed by feeding this population and how can they be …

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Master Farmer Part 12

MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS                       1986 PART XII   Chapter 11: Teaching Competencies Why is it necessary to teach competencies? How should they be taught? What is the basis for deciding which skills to teach?   Hodja story #12 In Hodja’s village there was a Greek community with a …

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Master Farmer Part 11

MASTER FARMER TEACHING SMALL FARMERS MANAGEMENT BRUCE M. LANSDALE WESTVIEW PRESS                       1986 PART XI Chapter 6: Organizing the Organizers How can development workers be trained to help others organize their work? Is organization too Western a concept to be accepted in a peasant society? How can the untapped potential of leadership among women be incorporated …

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The Ascent of Man Part 13

THE ASCENT OF MAN  JACOB BROWNOWSKI MACDONALD FUTURA PUBLISHERS                        1973 PART XIII   Chapter 13: The Long Childhood I begin this last essay in Iceland because it is the seat of the oldest democracy in Northern Europe. In the natural amphitheatre of Thingvellir, the Allthing of Iceland met each year to make laws and to …

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Outgrowing the Earth Part 8

OUTGROWING THE EARTH THE FOOD SECURITY CHALLENGE IN AN AGE OF FALLING WATER TABLES AND RISING TEMPERATURES LESTER BROWN EARTHSCAN          2005 PART VIII   Chapter 6: Stabilizing Water Tables Although public attention has recently focused on the depletion of oil resources, the depletion of underground water resources poses a far greater threat to our future. …

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Sustainable Agriculture Part 9

THE EARTHSCAN READER IN SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE EDITED BY JULES PRETTY EARTHSCAN          2005 PART IX   PART V: PERSPECTIVES FROM DEVELOPING COUNTRIES Perspective 22: Rethinking Agriculture for New Opportunities by Erick Fernandes, Alice Pell & Norman Uphoff Over the last 30 years, the creation and exploitation of new genetic potentials of cereal crops, leading to what …

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