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A new farmtocloset vision for the clothes we wearby a leader in the movement for local textile economies There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land air water labor and human health Even those who value access to safe local nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber dyes and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin its common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives Almost a decade ago weaver and natural dyer Rebecca Burgess developed a project focused on wearing clothing made from fiber grown woven and sewn within her bioregion of North Central California As she began to network with ranchers farmers and artisans she discovered that even in her home community there was ample raw material being grown to support a new regional textile economy with deep roots in climate change prevention and soil restoration A vision for the future came into focus combining right livelihoods and a textile system based on economic justice and soil carbon enhancing practices Burgess saw that we could create viable supply chains of clothing that could become the new standard in a world looking to solve the climate crisis In Fibershed readers will learn how natural plant dyes and fibers such as wool cotton hemp and flax can be grown and processed as part of a scalable restorative agricultural system They will also learn about milling and other technical systems needed to make regional textile production possible Fibershed is a resource for fiber farmers ranchers contract grazers weavers knitters slowfashion entrepreneurs soil activists and conscious consumers who want to join or create their own fibershed and topple outdated and toxic systems of exploitation
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A new farmtocloset vision for the clothes we wearby a leader in the movement for local textile economies There is a major disconnect between what we wear and our knowledge of its impact on land air water labor and human health Even those who value access to safe local nutritious food have largely overlooked the production of fiber dyes and the chemistry that forms the backbone of modern textile production While humans are 100 percent reliant on their second skin its common to think little about the biological and human cultural context from which our clothing derives Almost a decade ago weaver and natural dyer Rebecca Burgess developed a project focused on wearing clothing made from fiber grown woven and sewn within her bioregion of North Central California As she began to network with ranchers farmers and artisans she discovered that even in her home community there was ample raw material being grown to support a new regional textile economy with deep roots in climate change prevention and soil restoration A vision for the future came into focus combining right livelihoods and a textile system based on economic justice and soil carbon enhancing practices Burgess saw that we could create viable supply chains of clothing that could become the new standard in a world looking to solve the climate crisis In Fibershed readers will learn how natural plant dyes and fibers such as wool cotton hemp and flax can be grown and processed as part of a scalable restorative agricultural system They will also learn about milling and other technical systems needed to make regional textile production possible Fibershed is a resource for fiber farmers ranchers contract grazers weavers knitters slowfashion entrepreneurs soil activists and conscious consumers who want to join or create their own fibershed and topple outdated and toxic systems of exploitation
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Explore tips, opinions, and features on Chelsea Green Publishing Co Fibershed sold at 29.95 $ ; this product is listed in the Books & Magazines category, produced by Chelsea Green Publishing Co., and sold by Textbooks.com.
A digital copy of Fibershed Growing a Movement of Farmers Fashion Activists and Makers for a New Textile Economy by Rebecca Burgess Download is immediately available upon purchase
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Confronting the New Age How sold for 25.43 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The first book to tell you how to confront the New Age The threat is growing So not only do we need to understand the New Age we need to stem the tide of this growing religious movement Heres the first book that tells how Youll find all you need to know for Witnessing to New Age adherents Identifying New Age influences in business seminars Exposing New Age curriculum in our public schools Discerning New Age influences in pop psychology biofeedback therapy visualization and New Age music This book takes you a step beyond other books with its practical advice and sound suggestions
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Sam Wagar has produced a guidebook to starting a Wiccan Temple and church and evaluating recruiting and training both clergy and lay leadership He considers both the theology and the practical nittygritty details of bylaws and organization on the ground the types of services offered and the usefulness of larger scale associations of Temples Wagar has been a Wiccan High Priest since 1985 organized a wide range of groups both secular and religious including a legal national church a religious retreat a provincial church several covens and two Green Party campaigns among numerous others As well as a wealth of practical experience he brings an academic mind to bear he has an MA in history and a number of academic publications and this book is informed by the exchange theory of Stark and the practice theories of ritual of Bell among others A solid piece of work Unfortunately bound to ruffle a few feathers
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Find tips, reviews, and features on A Crash Course on the sold for 29.19 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
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An activist is someone who tries to make changes or raise awareness about political or social issues As Native Americans we fight for our rights as the first people of this land This is 11 year old Aslans story
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Written by lesbians of different ages races and religions and compiled by one of the gay movements bestknown writers and activists these original essays give vibrant voice to the diversity of the lesbian experience Celebrating the many ways in which the lesbian experience is unique from all others many of these pieces focus on specific lesbian concerns such as sexual practices raising children and higher incidence of certain illnessesBeyond pointing out these differences the essays also provide a comprehensive view of the many phases of lesbian life by covering diverse topics like body piercing coming out and work Short narratives To Mother or Not to Mother Confessions of a Lesbian Vampire About Being an Old Lesbian in Love and more complement and enrich the main essays adding a unique personal tone to the collection A mix of the serious and the irreverent Dyke Life is an important contribution to gay and lesbian literature
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Discover information, advice, and prices for Growing Critical Alternatives to sold for 83.29 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Growing Critical is an introduction to critical psychology focussing on development It takes a fresh look at infancy childhood and adulthood and makes the startling claim that development does not existJohn Moss guides the reader from the early critical movements of the 1970s which gave rise to the social construction of development through the wide range of more recent approaches He looks in turn at Vygotskys social context of development at Harres social construction Marxist critique of development psychology psychoanalytic interpretations of development and finally poststructuralist approaches following Foucault and Derrida He surveys the range of alternative positions in the critical psychology of development and evaluates the achievements of Newman and Holzman Broughton Tolman Walkerdine and othersMarxism psychoanalysis and poststructuralism as well as such movements as feminism challenge our understandings of human development Morss looks beyond the laboratory to Marx and Freud to Foucault and Lacan What sets Growing Critical apart from orthodox psychology is the seriousness with which he has thought through the implications of these challengesContemporary and readerfriendly Growing Critical will be of value to both undergraduate and to advanced students as well as to anyone interested in human development in pyschology sociology or education
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Discover information, advice, and prices for The Gardener s Guide to sold for 100.41 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product is sold by Abebooks.com and made by .
Crossing a number of genera the wide variety of species and cultivars provide the garden with brightly coloured glossy stems lush foliage rustling movement and very fast growth The Gardeners Guide to Growing Temperate Bamboos offers both a valuable guide to gardeners keen to establish the best performers for different situations and for specialists interested in the detail behind the plant For the gardener there are a wide range of uses in the mixed border or container and as specimen plantings ground cover or water features If you choose your species carefully there need be no danger from running roots or excess size and bamboos can be used as hedges for front gardens screens for patios and in small courtyard gardens Specialists will find fascinating information about the history of bamboos the botanical sophistication of the plants design and tips for finding and growing the more unusual species
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Find tips, reviews, and features on Growing Smarter Achieving Livable sold for 22.95 $ , available in the Books & Magazines category; this product belongs to and is sold by Abebooks.com.
The smart growth movement aims to combat urban and suburban sprawl by promoting livable communities based on pedestrian scale diverse populations and mixed land use But as this book documents smart growth has largely failed to address issues of social equity and environmental justice Smart growth sometimes results in gentrification and displacement of low and moderateincome families in existing neighborhoods or transportation policies that isolate lowincome populations Growing Smarter is one of the few books to view smart growth from an environmental justice perspective examining the effect of the built environment on access to economic opportunity and quality of life in American cities and metropolitan regionsThe contributors to Growing Smarterurban planners sociologists economists educators lawyers health professionals and environmentalistsall place equity at the center of their analyses of place space and race They consider such topics as the social and environmental effects of sprawl the relationship between sprawl and concentrated poverty and communitybased regionalism that can link cities and suburbs They examine specific cases that illustrate opportunities for integrating environmental justice concerns into smart growth efforts including the dynamics of sprawl in a South Carolina county the debate over the rebuilding of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina and transportationrelated pollution in Northern Manhattan Growing Smarter illuminates the growing racial and class divisions in metropolitan areas todayand suggests workable strategies to address them
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Young White and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s Wini Breines explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons this book is a poignant and important look into conditions that led to the womens movement
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The most complete book on urban farming covering everything from growing organic produce and raising chickens to running a small farm on a city lot or in a suburban backyardEating locally and growing ones own food is a rapidly evolving movement in urban settings Hantz Farms in Detroit has transformed 70 acres of abandoned properties into energyefficient gardens and Eagle Street Rooftop Farm a 6000foot vegetable farm in Brooklyn New York yields 30 different kinds of produce while private squarefoot farms are cropping up in cities all over the countryCreated by Lisa Taylor and the gardeners of Seattle Tilth Your Farm in the City covers all of the essential information specific to gardening and farming in a city or town Clear easytofollow instructions guide and inspire even the most inexperienced urbanite in how to grow and harvest all types of produce flowers herbs and trees as well as how to raise livestock like chickens ducks rabbits goats and honeybees Important information particular to gardening in a city or town is included such as planning and maximizing limited space building healthy soil managing irrigation understanding zoning laws outwitting urban pests and being a considerate farming neighbor With 100 twocolor instructional illustrations throughout and dozens of vital resources Your Farm in the City is the most practical comprehensive and easytofollow guide to the burgeoning trend of urban farming
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Growing Without Schooling The Complete Collection is a firsthand record of the grassroots homeschooling movement during the years 1977 to 2001 Featuring many letters analyses and media stories this volume shows how diverse allies join for a common cause to help children learn in their own ways in their homes and communities
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Growing Without Schooling The Complete Collection is a firsthand record of the grassroots homeschooling movement during the years 1977 to 2001 Featuring many letters analyses and media stories this volume shows how diverse allies join for a common cause to help children learn in their own ways in their homes and communities
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Paul Goodman 99118272 was an American sociologist poet writer anarchist public intellectual amp gayrights activist Hes now mainly remembered as the author of Growing Up Absurd amp as an activist on the pacifist Left in the 60s amp an inspiration to that eras student movement Hes less remembered as a cofounder of Gestalt Therapy in the 40s amp 50s In the mid40s together with C Wright Mills he contributed to Politics a journal edited then by Dwight Macdonald In 47 he published Kafkas Prayer amp Communitas a classic study of urban design coauthored with his brother Percival Fame came only with the 60 publication of his Growing Up Absurd Problems of Youth in the Organized System He also knew amp worked with other leading NY intellectuals including Daniel Bell Norman Mailer Irving Howe Alfred Kazin Norman Podhoretz Mary McCarthy Lionel Trilling amp Philip Rahv His writings also appeared in Partisan Review The New Republic Commentary The New Leader Dissent amp NY Review of Books Growing Up Absurd analyses the causes amp effects of the disgrace of the Organised System of semimonopolies government advertisers etc amp the disaffection of the growing generation Goodman asserts that the young really need a more worthwhile world in order to grow up at all confronting this real need with the world that theyve been getting
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This fascinating study sheds new light on antebellum Americas notorious filibustersthe freebooters and adventurers who organized or participated in armed invasions of nations with whom the United States was formally at peace Offering the first fullscale analysis of the filibustering movement Robert May relates the oftentragic stories of illegal expeditions into Cuba Mexico Ecuador Nicaragua and other Latin American countries and details surprising numbers of aborted plots as well May investigates why thousands of men joined filibustering expeditions how they were financed and why the US government had little success in curtailing them Surveying antebellum popular media he shows how the filibustering phenomenon infiltrated the American psyche in newspapers theater music advertising and literature Condemned abroad as pirates frequently in language strikingly similar to modern American denunciations of foreign terrorists the filibusters were often celebrated at home as heroes who epitomized the spirit of Manifest DestinyMay concludes by exploring the national consequences of filibustering arguing that the practice inflicted lasting damage on US relations with foreign countries and contributed to the NorthSouth division over slavery that culminated in the Civil War
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Young White and Miserable is a critically acclaimed study that compellingly shows how the feminist movement of the 1960s found momentum in the seemingly peaceable time of the 1950s Wini Breines explores white middle class America and argues that mixed messages given to girls during this decade lent fuel to the fire that would later become known as feminism Concluding with a look at the life and suicide of social scientist Anne Parsons this book is a poignant and important look into conditions that led to the womens movement
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From 911 conspiracy theorists and UFO obsessives tothe cult of Ayn Rand and Birthercrusaders America is suffering from an explosion in postrationalistideological movements In Among the Truthersjournalist Jonathan Kay offers a thoughtful and sobering look at how socialnetworking and Webbased video sharing have engendered a flourishing of new conspiracism Kay details the sociological profiles of tenbrands of modern conspiraciststhe Failed Historianthe MidLife CrackUp the Damaged Survivor the Campus Revolutionary theStoner the Clinical Case the Puzzle Solver the Christian Doomsayer the CosmicVoyager and the Egomaniacin a compelling exploration of Americas departurefrom reason and what it means for the very future of rational discourse as thenation steps further into the 21st century
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Martin Smithone of the leading voices in the modern worship movementshares his story his insight and his challenge to change the worldnbspFor seventeen years Smith held the microphone for Deliriousthe megaselling Dove Awardwinning Grammynominated band that helped bring the modern worship movement into existence Here Martin reflects on everything from the craft of leading worship to the challenges of parenthood to how to find a place of compassion within a culture of consumerism Along the way he challenges readers Are you going to be spectatorsor agents of change Are you going to read historyor make it happen Are you just going to sing the songsor will you live them out Always personal and often surprising Smiths story will spur readers to embrace the action God wants them to take
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