Jon R. Biemer

Our Environmental Handprints

Recover the Land, Reverse Global Warming, Reclaim the Future

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Produktbeschreibung

"Readers should be inspired, informed, and ready to go." Booklist, Starred Review Our Environmental Handprints shows us how, individually and together, we can revive rivers, revitalize agriculture, curtail carbon emissions, form a circular economy, and foster a better world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Globe Pequot Publishing Group Inc/Bloomsbury
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 471g
• ISBN-13: 9781538185483
• ISBN-10: 1538185482
• Artikelnr.: 67978942

Autorenporträt

Jon Biemer has more than forty years of experience creating sustainability including Repair Cafes, Free Cycling, Village Building Convergences, and ballot initiatives for Outdoor School and Clean Energy. Biemer is a mechanical engineer and holds a certificate in Process-oriented Psychology. He has managed utility energy conservation programs and now provides Organizational Development consulting to non-profits. He offsets his Carbon Footprint and buys resale clothing. In 2013 he walked the proposed Keystone XL pipeline route from Alberta to Nebraska with the Compassionate Earth Walk. Over the years, Jon and his wife have planted food forests, eco-remodeled their home, and lived without a power clothes dryer, refrigerator and car.

Inhaltsangabe

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS INTRODUCTION: On the Staff of Our Children PART I: CREATING SUSTAINABILITY 1. From Footprints to Handprints The Handprint Story. Planting Trees. The Ecological Footprint. Footprint and Handprint Thinking. Voluntary Carbon Offsets. Twelve Handprint Opportunities. 2. Little Things Add Up Cleaning Products. Intelligent Clothing. Eliminating Disposables. Six Handprint Opportunities. PART II: ALLYING WITH HUMANITY 3. Nurture Community Community Sharing. Repair Cafés. Ecovillages. Village Building Convergence. Community-friendly Businesses. Community Rights. Fourteen Handprint Opportunities. 4. Give Generously The Giveaway. Gleaning. Crowdfunding. Online Gifting Platforms. Donating to Environmental Causes. Philanthropy. Nine Handprint Opportunities. 5. Invest in Sustainability Socially Responsible Investing. Divesting Fossil Fuels. Shareholder Activism. Where Black Rock Goes
Six Handprint Opportunities. 6. Work for Environmental Justice The Earth Charter. Flint
s Water. Landfills. Environmental Justice in Indian Country. Standing Rock. One Congregation
s Initiative. Eight Handprint Opportunities. 7. Support Sustainable Development Sustaining Entrepreneurs. Education for Sustainable Development. Educating Girls in the Developing World. Contraception in the Developing World. Seven Handprint Opportunities. PART III: TEACHING AND LEARNING HANDPRINTS 8. Teach Ecology Environmental Literacy. Zoos and Aquariums. Nature Schools. Environmental College Education. Nine Handprint Opportunities. 9. Nurture a Lifelong Relationship with Nature Exposing Young People to Nature. Ecotourism. Experiential Education. Seven Handprint Opportunities. PART IV: FOOD HANDPRINTS 10. Honor the Soil Organic Agriculture. Agricultural Carbon Sequestration. Perennials. Intensive Ranching and Farming. Agroforestry. Seven Handprint Opportunities. 11. Partner with Your Earth-Friendly Farmer Gardening. Farmers Markets. Community Supported Agriculture. Food Labeling. Eating as if the Environment Mattered. Not All Meat is Created Equal. Partnering with Grocery Stores. Fifteen Handprint Opportunities. PART V: SHELTER, MOTION, AND ENERGY HANDPRINTS 12. Live and Work in Modest Elegance Small Houses. Eco Remodeling. Multifamily Housing. Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED). Ten Handprint Opportunities. 13. Move with Graceful Economy Walking. The Bicycle. The Electric Car. A Low-car Lifestyle. Urban Mass Transit. Inter-city Rail. The Next Generations. Eight Handprint Opportunities. 14. Insist on Earth-friendly Energy Energy Efficiency. Wind. Solar Electricity. Distributed Energy. Ten Handprint Opportunities. PART VI: STEWARDSHIP HANDPRINTS 15. Protect and Recover the Land The Serengeti of America. Endangered Species. Permaculture. Bioremediation. The Superfund. Thirteen Handprint Opportunities. 16. Revive Our Rivers Pete Seeger
s Legacy. Removing Dams. Water Restoration. Iconic River Revivals. Seven Handprint Opportunities. 17. Conserve Our Ocean The Coast. Marine Protected Areas. Fisheries. Reefs. Signature Marine Species. Marine Pollution Prevention. Ocean Gyres. Six Handprint Opportunities. PART VII: WITHIN OUR GRASP 18. A Circular Economy Resale. Recycling. The Benefit Corporation. Cradle to Cradle. We the People. Happiness. Ten Handprint Opportunities. 19. Paris The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. The Paris Agreement. Putting a Price on Carbon. Cities (and Everyone Else) versus Climate Change. Eight Handprint Opportunities. 20. Be a Hero in Your Own Story Transitions. Claiming Your Handprints. When Something Breaks. Three Handprint Opportunities. 21. We Can Do This! Twelve Future Collective Handprints. The Prophesy of Jake Swamp. APPENDIX 1. Drawdown Solutions vis a vis Handprint Opportunities APPENDIX 2. United Nations Sustainable Development Goals NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX ABOUT THE AUTHOR