"Grassroots Sustainability was inspired by the real-life efforts of a handful of grassroots groups in Marin County, California that successfully brought sustainability policy and education to their communities. This guidebook documents their best practices and shares important lessons learned along the way. It is intended to empower individuals and grassroots groups near and far to facilitate meaningful change in their communities without having to reinvent the wheel." -- publisher information.

Embark on a transformative journey towards vibrant health, compassionate living, and eco-consciousness with 'Thriving on Plants: A Comprehensive Guide to Excelling on the Vegan Diet.' In this essential handbook, delve into the rich tapestry of veganism, where each chapter is a gateway to unlocking the full potential of plant-based living. From understanding the foundational principles of veganism to mastering the art of plant-based cooking, this book offers a wealth of knowledge and practical advice. Explore the nuances of vegan nutrition, discover delicious recipes, and learn how to navigate social and cultural challenges with confidence. Gain insights into sustainable living, debunk common myths surrounding veganism, and uncover strategies for overcoming obstacles on your journey. Whether you're an athlete seeking peak performance, a conscious consumer looking to reduce your environmental impact, or simply curious about embracing a vegan lifestyle, this guide is your roadmap to success. Filled with expert guidance, inspiring anecdotes, and actionable tips, 'Thriving on Plants' empowers you to thrive physically, emotionally, and spiritually on the vegan path. Let this book be your companion as you embark on a life-affirming adventure towards optimal health, ethical living, and planetary stewardship.

In a society more concerned with how to cope with existential dread than how to make actionable changes to save the planet, a surprisingly large number of Americans identify as environmentalists. What can individual people do to lessen human impacts on the planet? This is not an easy question. Most research is focused on large-scale changes that go beyond anything an individual can accomplish, and people are left feeling defeated rather than inspired to make changes in their everyday lives. Change starts at home, and F Stuart Chapin, III has assembled a book for people who want to learn more about global changes and, more importantly, what they can do about them, starting today. Grassroots Stewardship approaches our current situation with an educated sense of hope and positivity. This book emphasizes actions by individuals, rather than governmental or corporate institutions, to trigger transformational change. Readers will learn what they can do to most significantly transform their communities and the planet with more sustainable pathways.

HowExpert Guide to World Hunger: The Ultimate Handbook for Understanding Hunger, Promoting Food Security, and Achieving Global Food Equity is your essential guide to understanding and addressing one of the world’s most urgent challenges. This comprehensive resource delves into the root causes of hunger — such as poverty, conflict, climate change, and food distribution inefficiencies — while offering actionable solutions and highlighting global efforts to eradicate hunger. Whether you're an advocate, student, policymaker, or someone passionate about creating a hunger-free world, this guide equips you with the knowledge, strategies, and tools to make a real difference. - Introduction: A concise overview of the global hunger crisis, its complexity, and the critical need for collective action. - Chapter 1: The State of Hunger in the World Today: Examines current hunger statistics, global trends, and the socioeconomic impact of hunger on affected regions. - Chapter 2: Causes of World Hunger: Explores the underlying factors driving hunger, including economic disparities, political instability, and environmental challenges. - Chapter 3: Global Efforts and Initiatives: Highlights the work of international organizations, NGOs, and governments in fighting hunger through sustainable development goals and policies. - Chapter 4: Sustainable Solutions to Ending Hunger: Discusses innovations in sustainable agriculture, food waste reduction, and the role of technology in solving hunger. - Chapter 5: Nutrition and Education as Key Components: Emphasizes the importance of nutrition programs and educational initiatives in preventing malnutrition and improving food security. - Chapter 6: The Role of Economic Empowerment: Focuses on how microfinance, fair trade, and market access help empower communities to rise out of hunger and poverty. - Chapter 7: Raising Awareness and Advocacy: Shows the power of public awareness campaigns, grassroots movements, and media in driving global attention and action against hunger. - Chapter 8: Collaborating Across Sectors: Explains the importance of partnerships among governments, private sectors, and NGOs in creating impactful and long-lasting solutions. - Chapter 9: Case Studies of Successful Hunger Initiatives: Presents real-world examples of successful programs and initiatives that have effectively reduced hunger in different regions. - Chapter 10: The Future of Ending World Hunger: Explores emerging technologies and innovative strategies that can potentially end hunger on a global scale. - Conclusion: A powerful call to action for individuals, governments, and organizations to unite and work toward a future where hunger no longer exists. - Appendices: Provides valuable resources, global organizations, key statistics, reports, and events that offer opportunities for engagement and support in the fight against hunger. The fight against world hunger is not just a distant issue; it’s a challenge that demands action now. This guide has shown that through collaboration, innovation, and sustained commitment, we can all play a role in ending hunger for good. Whether it’s supporting initiatives, raising awareness, or participating in grassroots efforts, every action makes a difference. The time to act is today — let’s come together and turn the vision of a hunger-free world into reality. The future is in our hands; let’s make sure it’s one where no one ever goes hungry again. HowExpert publishes how to guides on all topics from A to Z.

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It is widely understood that good, affordable eco-housing needs to be at the heart of any attempt to mitigate or adapt to climate change. This is the first book to comprehensively explore eco-housing from a geographical, social and political perspective. It starts from the premise that we already know how to build good eco-houses and we already have the technology to retrofit existing housing. Despite this, relatively few eco-houses are being built. Featuring over thirty case studies of eco-housing in Britain, Spain, Thailand, Argentina and the United States, Eco-Homes examines the ways in which radical changes to our houses – such as making them more temporary, using natural materials, or relying on manual heating and ventilation systems – require changes in how we live. As such, it argues, it is not lack of technology or political will that is holding us back from responding to climate change, but deep-rooted cultural and social understandings of our way of life and what we expect our houses to do for us.

Details grassroots bioremediation techniques and strategies for transforming environmental despair into action, including the use of plants to extract toxins and fungi to clean contaminated water and soil.

The fourth edition of Community Organizing and Community Building for Health and Social Equity provides both classic and recent contributions to the field, with a special accent on how these approaches can contribute to health and social equity. The 23 chapters offer conceptual frameworks, skill- building and case studies in areas like coalition building, organizing by and with women of color, community assessment, and the power of the arts, the Internet, social media, and policy and media advocacy in such work. The use of participatory evaluation and strategies and tips on fundraising for community organizing also are presented, as are the ethical challenges that can arise in this work, and helpful tools for anticipating and addressing them. Also included are study questions for use in the classroom. Many of the book’s contributors are leaders in their academic fields, from public health and social work, to community psychology and urban and regional planning, and to social and political science. One author was the 44th president of the United States, himself a former community organizer in Chicago, who reflects on his earlier vocation and its importance. Other contributors are inspiring community leaders whose work on-the-ground and in partnership with us “outsiders” highlights both the power of collaboration, and the cultural humility and other skills required to do it well. Throughout this book, and particularly in the case studies and examples shared, the role of context is critical, and never far from view. Included here most recently are the horrific and continuing toll of the COVID-19 pandemic, and a long overdue, yet still greatly circumscribed, “national reckoning with systemic racism,” in the aftermath of the brutal police killing of yet another unarmed Black person, and then another and another, seemingly without end. In many chapters, the authors highlight different facets of the Black Lives Matter movement that took on new life across the country and the world in response to these atrocities. In other chapters, the existential threat of climate change and grave threats to democracy also are underscored. View the Table of Contents and introductory text for the supplementary instructor resources. (https://d3tto5i5w9ogdd.cloudfront.net/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/04143046/9781978832176_optimized_sampler.pdf) Supplementary instructor resources are available on request: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/communityorganizing

Agriculture and food systems, forestry, the marine and the bio-based sectors are at the very heart of the climate change crisis. Evidence on climate change reveals that it will affect farming first, through changes to rainfall regimes, rising temperatures, the variability and seasonality of the climate and the occurrence of more frequent extreme events (heatwaves, droughts, storms and floods). In addition to findings ways to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, farmers will need to develop farming systems resilient to fluctuating environmental and socioeconomic conditions. It is thus a great challenge to support ambitious climate targets while satisfying the needs for food, feed, bio-based products and energy for a global population projected to reach 10 billion by 2030. Few books on the market integrate environment studies and climate-smart food production. This book fills the knowledge gap by covering all the relevant aspects in one reference: starting with microclimate management, climate change and food systems, and resilience of mixed farming and agroforestry systems, chapters address agricultural soil management, integrated water management in small agricultural catchments, citizen-driven food system approaches in cities, and ICT-enabled agri-food systems. By focusing on the most recent advances in the field while analyzing the potential of already applied practices, this book can serve as a handbook for regulators and researchers looking to understand all aspects of food production and distribution in this changing environment.

This important book explores how community-based interventions can bridge the gap between health services and the voluntary sector to create more sustainable, healthy communities. Moving beyond a technologically driven, medicalised approach to healthcare, the book shows how social prescribing can provide a direct pathway to improving community health, embracing connection and challenging inequality. Written by a practicing GP, and illustrated through practical guidance, it demonstrates how this can offer a cost-effective, preventative means to improving health outcomes, enabling communities to be more resilient when confronting major issues such as climate change or pandemics. Building to a case study of how these methods were used in one town, Ross-on-Wye, the book will be invaluable reading for those working in healthcare, public health, local authorities, and the voluntary sector, as well as students and researchers interested in these areas.