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Activism/Service & global challenges

Below are the best resources we could find on Activism/Service and global challenges.

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Still Hopeful: Lessons from a Lifetime of Activism

In this timely book, Canadian activist Maude Barlow counters the prevailing atmosphere of pessimism that surrounds us and offers lessons of hope that she has learned from a lifetime of activism.

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Creating the World We Want to Live In: How Positive Psychology Can Build a Brighter Future

This book is about hope and a call to action to make the world the kind of place we want to live in.

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Creating the Culture of Peace: A Clarion Call for Individual and Collective Transformation

The culture of peace and non-violence is essential to human existence, development and progress. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly adopted by consensus the norm-setting, forward-looking “Declaration and Programme of Action on a Culture of Peace”.

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FindCenterThe difference between what we do and what we are capable of doing would suffice to solve most of the world’s problems.

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Global Challenges: War, Self Determination and Responsibility for Justice

In the late twentieth century, many writers and activists envisioned new possibilities of transnational cooperation toward peace and global justice. In this book Iris Marion Young aims to revive such hopes by responding clearly to what are seen as the global challenges of the modern day.

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Like a Tree: How Trees, Women, and Tree People Can Save the Planet

The book will appeal most to people who realize that they are “tree people.” It is poetic, educational, inspirational, spiritual, and down to earth, covering the subject of trees from anatomy and physiology to trees as archetypal and sacred symbols.

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Soil, Soul, Society: A New Trinity for Our Time

We are all members of a one-earth society, and caring for the earth and soul is interrelated. This is the message of Satish Kumar, the internationally respected peace and environment activist who has been gently setting the agenda for change for over 50 years.

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LGBTQI Activists Read Real Requests for Help from People Trying to Flee Persecution Around the World

LGBTQI people live in fear in 68 countries around the world. This Pride, you can give one person a chance to find Freedom from Fear.

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Staying Alive: Women, Ecology, and Development

Inspired by women’s struggles for the protection of nature as a condition for human survival, award-winning environmentalist Vandana Shiva shows how ecological destruction and the marginalization of women are not inevitable, economically or scientifically.

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Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview with Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy

Joanna Macy discusses politics, the media, activism, and the importance of waking up.

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