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L'année sauvage : une vie sans technologie au rythme de la nature
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ISBN: 9791037501264 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : les Arènes,

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La 4ème de couv. indique : "Imaginez une vie sans technologie, où l'être humain réapprend à vivre en harmonie avec la nature. Ecrivain culte de la décroissance, Mark Boyle est connu pour se lancer des défis. En 2016, fort du succès de son année sans argent, il décide de renoncer à toute forme de technologie. Plus de portable, d'ordinateur, d'électricité ou d'eau courante. Pas de montre, de clés, de réveil. Il faut tout réapprendre. Mark Boyle explique son cheminement avec simplicité et humour. Il défend un mode de vie centré sur l'entraide, le bricolage et la solidarité. Il raconte son existence dans une maison de bois en pleine nature, où l'être humain peut à nouveau se fondre dans le paysage. "L'Année sauvage" est une histoire d'humains et d'animaux, de liens indéfectibles entre les êtres qui partagent un bout de terre, et dont Mark Boyle se fait l'observateur tour à tour enjoué, révolté, jamais désabusé. Ce récit puissant et d'une énergie communicative est une occasion de s'évader dans les bois, mais aussi de penser et construire les fondations d'une vie meilleure"


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Digital nomads : in search of freedom, community, and meaningful work in the new economy
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ISBN: 0190931817 0190931795 0190931809 9780190931780 0190931787 Year: 2021 Publisher: New York, New York : Oxford University Press,

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Rachael Woldoff and Robert Litchfield take readers into an expatriate digital nomad community in Bali, Indonesia to better understand this growing demographic of younger workers. From dozens of interviews and several stints living in a digital nomad hub, Woldoff and Litchfield detail the factors that drove this set of workers to flee their conventional lives in search of meaningful work, community, and opportunities for personal development on their own terms.


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Quotidien politique : féminisme, écologie et subsistance
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ISSN: 22725466 ISBN: 9782348069666 2348069660 Year: 2021 Publisher: Paris : La Découverte,

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Fin des sociétés paysannes, cuisines équipées, bétonisation des terres arables, effacement des savoir-faire et cosmogonies autochtones, ignorance des rythmes du monde vivant… Ces phénomènes divers que l’on apprend aujourd’hui à déplorer sont bel et bien liés, nous disent depuis un demi-siècle des théoriciennes écoféministes, critiques de la modernité industrielle. C’est à leurs pensées, méconnues en France, ainsi qu’aux leçons existentielles et politiques qu’il convient d’en tirer, qu’est consacré cet ouvrage. L’auteure explore les alternatives écologiques et anticapitalistes contemporaines pour démontrer que la vie quotidienne est un terrain politique fondateur. Sans politique du quotidien, sans reconstruction collective et radicale de notre subsistance, il n’y aura pas de société égalitaire ni écologique. Contrairement aux idées reçues, ce n’est pas la généralisation du salariat qui a permis d’accéder à la société de consommation et au confort appareillé, mais le colonialisme et le travail domestique féminin. Une autre organisation politique de la vie et des rapports à la nature est possible. À condition d’être redistribué, ancré dans une communauté en prise avec un biotope et des usages, le travail de subsistance ainsi repensé devient un facteur d’émancipation. La fabrique du quotidien apparaît alors pour ce qu’elle est : un enjeu révolutionnaire.


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Practical sustainability : a guide to a more sustainable life
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ISBN: 3030737829 9783030737825 3030737810 Year: 2021 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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This book will teach you everything you need to know about sustainable livingfrom reducing your greenhouse gas footprint to making sure that you are part of the green economy. Along the way, readers will learn about the field of sustainability and the "three Es" of sustainable livingenvironment, economy, and equity. We are in the midst of great environmental change and all of us need to do everything we can to try to live more gently on the planet. Robert Brinkmann provides a range of options for readers as to what they can do to try to make a difference. Some involve simple lifestyle changes - but he also challenges all of us to commit to make more difficult and more meaningful changes to create a greener, more sustainable world. The book also delves into how we can create more sustainable communities, schools, and organizations. It showcases many examples of people and organizations that are making significant contributions to improving our planets sustainability that serve as inspiration and guidance for all of us trying to live more sustainably. Robert Brinkmann is the Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Northern Illinois University, USA and is the author of numerous books, including Environmental Sustainability in a Time of Change. His blog, On the Brink, is one of most popular sustainability blogs on the Internet.


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Organic Music Societies : Blank Forms 06.
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ISBN: 1733723587 9781733723589 Year: 2021 Publisher: Brooklyn, NY : Blank Forms Editions,

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Avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry (née Karlsson) met in Sweden in the late sixties. They began to live and perform together, dubbing their mix of communal art, social and environmentalist activism, children's education, and pan-ethnic expression Organic Music. Organic Music Societies, Blank Forms' sixth anthology, is a special issue released in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name devoted to the couple's multimedia collaborations. The first English-language publication on either figure, the book highlights models for collectivism and pedagogy deployed in the Cherrys' interpersonal and artistic work through the presentation of archival documents alongside newly translated and commissioned writings by musicians, scholars, and artists alike. Beginning with an overview by Blank Forms Artistic Director Lawrence Kumpf and Don Cherry biographer Magnus Nygren, this volume further explores Don's work of the period through a piece on his Relativity Suite by Ben Young and an essay on the diasporic quality of his music by Fumi Okiji. Ruba Katrib emphasizes the domestic element of Moki's practice in a biographical survey accompanied by full-color reproductions of Moki's vivid tapestries, paintings, and sculptures, which were used as performance environments by Don's ensembles during the Sweden years and beyond. Two selections of Moki's unpublished writings--consisting of autobiography, observations, illustrations, and diary entries, as well as poetry and aphorisms--are framed by tributes from her daughter Neneh Cherry and granddaughter Naima Karlsson. Swedish Cherry collaborator Christer Bothén contributes period travelogues from Morocco, Mali, and New York, providing insight into the cross-cultural communication that would soon come to be called world music.


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Sustainable hedonism : a thriving life that does not cost the earth
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ISBN: 1529218004 1529218012 1529217997 1529217970 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bristol : Bristol University Press,

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Drawing on modern science and ancient Greek philosophy, this book calls to explore our collective and personal convictions about success and good life. It challenges the mainstream worldview, rooted in economics, that equates happiness with pleasure, and encourages greed, materialism, egoism and disconnection.


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The New Meatways and Sustainability : Discourses and Social Practices
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ISBN: 3839454336 3837654338 3732854337 Year: 2021 Publisher: Bielefeld transcript Verlag

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Social practice theories help to challenge the often hidden paradigms, worldviews, and values at the basis of many unsustainable practices. Discourses and their boundaries define what is seen as possible, as well as the range of issues and their solutions. By exploring the connections between practices and discourses, Minna Kanerva develops a conceptual approach enabling purposive change in unsustainable social practices. Radical transformation towards new meatways is arguably necessary, yet complex psychological, ideological, and power-related mechanisms currently inhibit change.


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Sustainability matters : prospects for a just transition in Calgary, Canada's petro-city
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ISBN: 1773852507 1773852485 Year: 2021 Publisher: Calgary, Alberta : University of Calgary Press,

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Calgary, Alberta is a culturally diverse urban metropolis. Sprawling and car-dependent, fast-growing and affluent, it is dominated by the fossil fuel industry. For 30 years, Calgary has struggled to turn sustainability rhetoric into reality.Sustainability Matters is the story of Calgary’s setbacks and successes on the path toward sustainability. Chronicling two decades of public conversations, political debate, urban policy and planning, and scholarly discovery, it is both a fascinating case study and an accessible introduction to the theory and practice of urban sustainability. A clear-eyed view of the struggles of turning knowledge into action, this book illuminates the places where theory and reality converge and presents an approach to municipal development, planning, and governance that takes seriously the urgent need to address climate change and injustice.Addressing a wide variety of topics and themes, including energy, diversity, economic development, and ecological health, Sustainability Matters is both a critique of current practice and a vision for the future that uses the city of Calgary as a microcosm to address issues faced by cities around the world. This is essential reading not only for every Calgarian working for a vibrant and sustainable future, but for all those interested in in the future of cities in a post-carbon world.

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