Tag: Change

Free Download Implementing Climate Change Measures in the EU: Key Success Factors By Merle Grobbel (auth.)
2009 | 409 Pages | ISBN: 3531162519 | PDF | 2 MB
Which factors influence the implementation of climate change measures in the EU? Are there already any indications prior to directive/law approval of (national) implementation difficulties that could later emerge? What are the prerequisites of successful implementation? How can we model implementation? Implementing Climate Change Measures in the EU provides answers to these questions and introduces an all new implementation model.

Free Download Warming Up: How Climate Change is Changing Sport (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D92M4KLG | 2024 | 9 hours and 48 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 536 MB
Author: Madeleine Orr
Narrator: Deborah McBride
The world of sport has a new opponent: climate change. In recent years, a world championship marathon was held at midnight to avoid the blistering sun. Professional athletes needed oxygen tanks to play during wildfire season in California. Players collapsed and play was suspended amid the heat and bushfire smoke at the Australian Tennis open. Ski resorts in the Alps have turned into ghost towns. Golf courses are sinking into the sea. And then there’s the Qatar World Cup, among the greatest follies in sporting history, one that saw hundreds (perhaps thousands) of heat-induced deaths before a ball was even kicked.

Free Download Threshold: How Smart Homes Change Us Inside and Out (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0D4858PZ2 | 2024 | 9 hours and 42 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 258 MB
Author: Heather Suzanne Woods
Narrator: April Doty
Smart homes are here-domestic spaces bristling with networked technologies that appear to enhance work, entertainment, logistics, health, and security. But these technologies may also extract a cost in attention, money, and privacy. In Threshold, communication and technology expert Heather Suzanne Woods applies rhetorical theory to answer the urgent question of how swiftly proliferating smart homes alter those who inhabit them. Building on research into smart homes in the United States, Woods recounts how smart homes arose and predicts the trajectory of their future form. She pulls back the curtain on the technology, probes who is in control, and questions whether a home can be too smart. Woods suggests a dynamic cultural framework for understanding smart homes that takes into account sociotechnical variables through which smart homes shape human life. Woods’s framework reveals how smart homes both reflect social norms about technology as well as whet consumer appetites. Written for homeowners, policymakers, technology enthusiasts, and scholars, Threshold interweaves critical analysis with matter-of-fact graphics that map relationships between digital tools and social life.

Free Download The New Science of Social Change: A Modern Handbook for Activists (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CNTXWR87 | 2024 | 6 hours and 39 minutes | M4B@128 kbps | 376 MB
Author: Lisa Mueller
Narrator: Nichalia Schwartz
In this accessible guide for activists, scholar Lisa Mueller translates cutting-edge empirical research on effective protest to show how to make movements really matter. We are in the middle of a historic swell of activism taking place throughout the world. From Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring, to pro-democracy uprisings in China, Black Lives Matter, the Women’s March on Washington, and more recent pro-choice protests; folks everywhere are gathering to demand a more just world. Yet despite social engagement being at record highs, there is a divide between the activist community and the scientists-like Lisa Mueller, PhD-who study it.

Free Download Propeller: Accelerating Change by Getting Accountability Right by Tanner Corbridge, Jared Jones, Craig Hickman
English | April 14, 2020 | ISBN: B086Q4YSQT | 5 hours and 18 minutes | MP3 128 Kbps | 291 Mb
The Oz Principle has sold more than a million copies since it debuted in 1994, establishing it as the go-to reference on workplace accountability throughout the world. By embracing its practical and invaluable advice, tens of thousands of companies have improved their organizational accountability – the key to achieving and sustaining exceptional results.
Now, the team at Partners In Leadership is applying 30 years of proven success to elevate accountability as the engine for creating culture advantage. This book presents a modern take on accountability, while remaining faithful to the elegantly simple premise: When people take personal ownership of their organization’s priorities and accept responsibility for their own performance, they become more engaged and perform at a higher level.
With all new examples and stories, Propeller builds on the The Oz Principle’s legacy to inspire listeners to tap the incredible power of personal, team, and organizational accountability.

Free Download People, Power, Change: Organizing for Democratic Renewal (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CQPK1T3M | 2024 | 9 hours and 29 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 256 MB
Author: Marshall Ganz
Narrator: Marshall Ganz
At a moment in which our everyday practice of democracy has atrophied, and political, economic, and technological forces have weakened our capacity for collective action, People, Power, Change is a once-in-a-generation book for anyone who wants to create real and lasting change. Marshall Ganz is one of the world’s leading authorities on democratic leadership, organizing, and action and this book is the culmination of his decades of teaching, research, and practice. In People, Power, Change Ganz offers students, educators, and organizers access to the craft he has learned, adapted, and shared over the last half-century of creating effective collective action.

Free Download One Week to Change the World: An Oral History of the 1999 WTO Protests (Audiobook)
English | June 18, 2024 | ASIN: B0CLX13XBK | M4B@64 kbps | 12h 9m | 357 MB
Author: DW Gibson | Narrators: Cassandra Campbell, Danny Campbell, Jason Culp, Soneela Nankani, Leon Nixon, Ramón de Ocampo, Fred Sanders, Jackie Sanders
The definitive history of Seattle’s 1999 World Trade Organization protests, featuring over 100 original interviews and timed to the event’s twenty-fifth anniversary.
One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods. Though their mission succeeded, it was not without blowback. Violent confrontations between police and protestors resulted in hundreds of arrests and millions of dollars in property damage. But the images of tear gas and smashed windows that flashed across TVs and newspapers were not an accurate representation of what actually happened that week.

Free Download David L. Kirchman, Tristan Morris (Narrator), "Microbes: The Unseen Agents of Climate Change"
English | ASIN: B0DC7877Z7 | 2024 | MP3@64 kbps | ~07:27:00 | 205 MB
For billions of years, microbes have produced and consumed greenhouse gases that regulate global temperature and in turn other aspects of our climate. The balance of these gases maintains Earth’s habitability. Methane, a greenhouse gas produced only by microbes, may have kept Earth out of a deep freeze billions of years ago. Likewise, variations in carbon dioxide, another greenhouse gas released by microbes and other organisms, help to explain the comings and goings of ice ages over the last million years.
Now we face a human-made climate crisis with drastic consequences. The complete story behind greenhouse gases, however, involves microbes and their role in natural ecosystems. Microscopic organisms are also part of the solution, producing biofuels and other forms of green energy which keep fossil fuels in the ground. Other microbes can be harnessed to reduce the release of methane and nitrous oxide from agriculture, and geoengineering solutions that depend on microbes could pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere.
David L. Kirchman introduces a unique and timely contribution to the climate change conversation and the part microbes play in our past, present, and future. He takes listeners into the unseen world behind the most important environmental problem facing society today and encourages us to embrace microbial solutions.

Free Download Lytton: Climate Change, Colonialism and Life Before the Fire (Audiobook)
English | ASIN: B0CPTBWFHT | 2024 | 9 hours and 55 minutes | M4B@64 kbps | 286 MB
Author: Peter Edwards, Kevin Loring
Narrator: Kevin Loring, Wayne Ward
From bestselling true-crime author Peter Edwards and Governor General’s Award-winning playwright Kevin Loring, two sons of Lytton, BC, the town that burned to the ground in 2021, comes a meditation on hometown―when hometown is gone. "It’s dire," Greta Thunberg retweeted Mayor JanPolderman. "The whole town is on fire. It took a whole 15 minutes from the first sign of smoke to, all of a sudden, there being fire everywhere." Before it made global headlines as the small town that burned down during a record-breaking heatwave in June 2021, while briefly the hottest place on Earth, Lytton, British Columbia, had a curious past. Named for the author of the infamous line, "It was a dark and stormy night," Lytton was also where Peter Edwards, organized-crime journalist and author of seventeen non-fiction books, spent his childhood. Although only about 500 people lived in Lytton, Peter liked to joke that he was only the second-best writer to come from his tiny hometown.