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Changemakers : embracing hope, taking action, and transforming the world
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ISBN: 1550926683 1771422637 9781550926682 9781771422635 086571875X 9780865718753 Year: 2018 Publisher: Gabriola Island, BC : New Society Publishers,

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"Changemakers is the guidebook for ordinary people aiming to create a more just and ecological society. We hold the power to make personal changes that can drive local changes and tip into large-scale social transformation. Explores transformative learning and presents powerful stories of everyday people who have transformed their lives, communities, and wider society. Presents practical tools to get started."--


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The High Road : A Pot Grower's Journey from the Black Market to the Stock Market.
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ISBN: 1773270702 9781773270708 1773270699 9781773270692 Year: 2018 Publisher: La Vergne : Figure 1 Publishing,

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"A native of Long Island, New York, Pete Young first grew cannabis on the roof of a friend's apartment building when he was fifteen years old. A fascination with marijuana cultivation quickly followed, with Young mastering techniques like HID lighting, water polymers, and genetics. Young moved to Canada in the late 1980s and soon began selling seeds out of the Great Canadian Hemporium in London, Ontario. After police raided the head shop he took part in one of the first constitutional challenges to Canada's drug laws. When he befriended a young man whose severe cystic fibrosis was aided by one thing only--marijuana consumption--Young began growing for medicinal users, and eventually became one of the biggest producers and distributors of illicit medical marijuana in Canada. Along the way he overcame every obstacle a guerilla grower faces, including crop theft, forest fire, police arrest, bankruptcy, home invasion, physical assault and, perhaps most intimidating of all, hungry male deer. In 2015, Young stepped onto the right side of the law when he co-founded and was named master grower at Indiva, a Health Canada-licensed producer of medical marijuana."--


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"Land is life, conservancy is life."
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ISBN: 3906927032 9783906927039 3906927024 9783906927022 Year: 2018 Publisher: Basel Basler Afrika Bibliographien

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Community-based natural resource management or CBNRM, with its attention to community participation, its call for de-centralization of rights to local resource users through democratic and equitable structures, and its potential to deliver benefits to local livelihoods and national conservation interests now forms the predominant strategy for rural development in the communal areas of Namibia. This framework is presumed by the Namibian government and international bodies concerned with conservation and development to deliver measurable and positive economic, environmental, and political results for the State and all of its citizens. For residents of many of the communal areas of Namibia the "Conservancy" has become the primary avenue through which rural residents engage with development and conservation in various efforts to improve local livelihoods and to conserve natural resources. CBNRM has taken on particular form and significance for the San in Namibia. This book examines the current position of the San as marginalized indigenous peoples in Namibia. In doing so, it explores how CBNRM has become a nexus through which questions of indigeneity, conservation and development have come to bear on San communities. Focusing on the experiences of a group of predominantly San communities in the North-East of Namibia, the historical and contemporary situations of the San of the Na Jaqna Conservancy and their engagement with CBNRM are examined. In looking to the future, this work seeks to understand what mechanisms and institutions give indigenous groups, such as the San, a foothold in the State and an avenue though which to navigate and shape their own modernity(ies). This work explores the modalities through which conservation comes together with interests of indigenous groups and how these groups deploy leverage gained through invoking conservation as discourse and practice. In examining San engagements with the Conservancy structures in N+a Jaqna, this study seeks answers not only to the question of what San engagements with CBNRM can tell us about the potential of the CBNRM framework itself for facilitating rural development and conservation, but also the question of what engagement with CBNRM can tell us about how the San of Namibia actively engage in rural development. The following work focuses not solely on how policies and governmental or non-governmental interventions have impacted San realities and life ways, but also the ways in which the San of Na Jaqna have negotiated, impacted, and shaped these processes.


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Contribution à l'émergence de territoires libérés de l'emprise étatique et marchande : réflexions sur l'autogestion de la vie quotidienne
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ISBN: 9782743645366 2743645369 Year: 2018 Publisher: Paris Éditions Payot & Rivages

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A la déshumanisation que le capitalisme propage, les sociétés autogérées oppose l'émergence de terres libres, affranchies du joug de l'Etat et du système économique. Les modes de gouvernement du passé n'ont fait que moderniser la barbarie aux dépens du bonheur individuel et collectif auquel chacun aspire. La société autogérée est la seule à pouvoir restaurer le devenir humain d'hommes et de femmes qui ont dû jusqu'à ce jour se contenter d'en rêver.

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