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    Tales From the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law
    Tales From the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law
    Tales From the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law
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    Tales From the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law

    By Stephen Hren

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  • Intended audience includes: those actively involved in hands-on work related to sustainability, general interest reader who wants to find information of more radical forms of sustainability activities from across the US.
  • The book represents a large cross section of the United States including: the Southeast, Southwest, Northwest, Middlewest and Northeast.
  • The book addresses difficulties that activists face regarding antiquated laws and regulation that favor big business
  • Discusses issues that may be inhibiting society from achieving a sustainable world
  • This is a story oriented book and looks at what people are actually doing to make the work a more sustainable world, with or without permission (ie. His motto, developed over the years of dealing with restrictive by-laws is, ”Sometimes it is easier to ask forgiveness than permission”)
  • The author’s previous book, The Carbon-Free Home received a gold medal Foreword book award
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNew Society Publishers
    Release dateNov 15, 2011
    ISBN9781550924879
    Tales From the Sustainable Underground: A Wild Journey with People Who Care More About the Planet Than the Law

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