A 'zero waste' life is about changing or altering the way we consume, and how we think about waste. It's about making better choices when we can, and working to reduce our overall impact by reducing the amount of packaging and single-use plastics we bring into our life. Weldon presents simple ways you can reduce waste in every aspect of your life, from making your own natural cleaners and beauty supplies, to reducing food packaging and starting a...

"With an empowering call to action, The Waste-Free World boldly invites us to end one of the greatest scams in history in order to achieve a bright, sustainable, and prosperous future. As microplastics collect in the ocean by the ton, natural resources are depleted, and cities face mounting landfill disposal bills, consumers and investors are becoming increasingly focused on the quality, durability and environmental footprint of products--yet many...

What if recycling could earn you money on the side? People like you have learned how to turn trash destined for landfills into artistic crafts consumers crave. Their stories and how you can do it too make up the blueprint for success in the gig economy. It's all revealed in the book, "Start a Creative Recycling Side Hustle: 101 Ideas for Making Money from Sustainable Crafts Consumers Crave.

Muhammad Yunus, who created microcredit, invented social business, and earned a Nobel Peace Prize for his work in alleviating poverty, is one of today's most trenchant social critics. Now he declares it's time to admit that the capitalist engine is broken--that in its current form it inevitably leads to rampant inequality, massive unemployment, and environmental destruction. We need a new economic system that unleashes altruism as a creative force...

From the author and illustrator duo who created the award-winning I Have the Right to Be a Child comes this beautifully illustrated picture book about a child's right to advocate for the environment they live in. Told from the perspective of a child, this colorful and vibrant book explores what it means to be a child who dreams of a beautiful future for their planet.

"Visionary physicist Geoffrey West is a pioneer in the field of complexity science, the science of emergent systems and networks... Fascinated by issues of aging and mortality, West applied the rigor of a physicist to the biological question of why we live as long as we do and no longer. The result was astonishing, and changed science, creating a new understanding of energy use and metabolism: West found that despite the riotous diversity in the sizes...

It's a largely unquestioned assumption that any and all economic growth is good. Many of the world's developed countries, which already have a surplus of wealth and resources, continue to pursue economic growth as an end in itself. But could all this unchecked growth end up hurting the citizens of less-developed nations, making escape from poverty impossible? In The Economics of Arrival, Trebeck and Williams put forth a provocative idea: moving away...

Humanity has paid a high price for the development model it adopted since the Industrial Revolution. Based on Western notions of linear progress, exploitation of resources, consumerism and equating material prosperity with happiness, it has caused global warming, environmental pollution, decimation of bio-diversity, toxicity of food products and decline of soil fertility. Human society has been left vulnerable to this achievement-oriented and consumerist...

Wie kriegen wir endlich wirklich fairen Kaffee? Warum sind Familienunternehmen besser beim nachhaltigen Wirtschaften? Woran hapert es bis heute bei Cradle to Cradle? Wie sieht nachhaltige Architektur aus? Was bringt Mülltrennung? Sollten wir häufiger "Nein!" sagen? Wie lecker ist Insektenschokolade? Was bleibt am Ende übrig? Und überhaupt: warum eigentlich Nachhaltigkeit? Die besten Geschichten aus mehr als 20 Jahren brand eins zu den großen...

How to develop a profitable space presence before the advent of low cost access to orbit, and free from the specification restrictive purse strings of government. Some enterprising company will take the first step to universal riches from space resources. As a species, we can do this now without the snail's pace of governmental hegemony. "The Space Trade," describes a variety of step-wise paths to new self-sustaining trade in space. Shows how the...