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From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 182

From the Fryer to the Fuel Tank

Discusses the American dependence on imported fossil fuel and proposes a solution in the form of biodiesel engines.

The Social Profit Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 194

The Social Profit Handbook

How do you measure the success of a social profit institution, where missions are focused on the well-being of people, place, and planet? It is one of the most difficult tasks faced by non-profit administrations, who find themselves confused, even paralyzed, by the current demand for "outcomes measurement", a phrase used by most foundations and funding agencies, and increasingly by individual donors. The Social Profit Handbook gives those who lead, govern, and support social profit organizations both a different way to think about assessment and a very practical approach to implementing formative assessment practices--practices whose purpose is not about judging work that has already happene...

Navigators
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 256

Navigators

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000-01-01
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  • Publisher: SUNY Press

Through excerpts and profiles, this inspiring book presents the experiences of twelve African American artists who teach at traditionally White colleges and universities.

The Living Soil Handbook
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 305

The Living Soil Handbook

Principles and farm-tested practices for no-till market gardening--for healthier, more productive soil! From the host of the popular The No-Till Market Garden Podcast—heard around the world with nearly one million downloads! Discovering how to meet the soil’s needs is the key task for every market gardener. In this comprehensive guide, Farmer Jesse Frost shares all he has learned through experience and experimentation with no-till practices on his home farm in Kentucky and from interviews and visits with highly successful market gardeners in his role as host of The No-Till Market Garden Podcast. The Living Soil Handbook is centered around the three basic principles of no-till market gard...

The Memory Palace
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 322

The Memory Palace

In the tradition of The Glass Castle, two sisters confront schizophrenia in this New York Times bestselling poignant memoir about family and mental illness. Through stunning prose and original art, The Memory Palace captures the love between mother and daughter, the complex meaning of truth, and one family’s capacity for forgiveness. *A Washington Post Best Book of the Year * *The National Book Critics Circle Award Winner for Best Autobiography* “People have abandoned their loved ones for much less than you’ve been through,” Mira Bartók is told at her mother’s memorial service. It is a poignant observation about the relationship between Mira, her sister, and their mentally ill mot...

Dear Paulo
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 285

Dear Paulo

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2015-12-22
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Dear Paulo: Letters from Those Who Dare Teach is a heartfelt response from teachers, academics, and community workers to the work of the internationally renowned educator and author Paulo Freire. From newly minted teachers terrified of facing their first day in the classroom to seasoned academics whose work has largely been inspired by Freire, this collection, accompanied by photographs of Freire with some of the letter writers, is both a loving memorial and a call to action to work for social justice, praxis, and democracy, ideals envisioned and brilliantly articulated by Paulo.

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 336

The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution

Learn how to use natural no-till systems to increase profitability, efficiency, carbon sequestration, and soil health on your small farm. The Organic No-Till Farming Revolution is the comprehensive farmer-developed roadmap showing how no-till lowers barriers to starting a small farm, reduces greenhouse gas emissions, increases efficiency and profitability, and promotes soil health. Farming without tilling has long been a goal of agriculture, yet tilling remains one of the most dominant paradigms; almost everyone does it. But tilling kills beneficial soil life, burns up organic matter, and releases carbon dioxide. If the ground could instead be prepared for planting without tilling, time and ...

Good Food, Strong Communities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 304

Good Food, Strong Communities

Good Food, Strong Communities shares ideas and stories about efforts to improve food security in large urban areas of the United States by strengthening community food systems. It draws on five years of collaboration between a research team composed of the University of Wisconsin, Growing Power, the Michael Fields Agricultural Institute, and more than thirty organizations on the front lines of this work. Here, activists and scholars talk about what's working and what still needs to be done to ensure that everyone has access to readily available, affordable, appropriate, and acceptable food. This book helps readers understand how a food system functions and how individual and community initiatives can lessen the problems associated with an industrialized food system.--Back cover.

Growing for Market
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 888

Growing for Market

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 1996
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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Feeding the Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 72

Feeding the Children

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2006
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  • Publisher: Unknown

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