Author: David W. Orr

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Andrés R. Edwards is an educator, author, media designer and environmental systems consultant who has specialized in sustainability topics for the past 15 years. The founder and president of Edu Tracks, an exhibit design and fabrication firm specializing in green building and sustainable education programs for parks, towns and companies, he lives in Northern California.




19 Ebooks by David W. Orr

Rebecca L. Young: Confronting Climate Crises through Education
Confronting Climate Crises through Education: Reading Our Way Forward envisions the responsibility of public education to engage a citizenry more prepared to address the challenges of a changing worl …
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€45.22
Andres R. Edwards: The Sustainability Revolution
Sustainability has become a buzzword in the last decade, but its full meaning is complex, emerging from a range of different sectors. In practice, it has become the springboard for millions of indivi …
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€19.99
Lyle Estill: Small Stories, Big Changes
A remarkable cast of characters inhabit the pages of this book. Meet Tim Toben, who developed a high rise with the lowest energy consumption of any building in the southeastern United States, was for …
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€17.99
Kenny Ausubel: Dreaming the Future
Few would deny that we are entering a period of great change. Our environment is collapsing. Social disruption abounds. All around, it seems, we are experiencing breakdown. But out of this chaos come …
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€17.37
David W. Orr: Nature of Design
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative–trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an eco …
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€28.14
David W. Orr: Down to the Wire
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives…. It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for b …
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€17.66
David W. Orr: Nature of Design
The environmental movement has often been accused of being overly negative–trying to stop "progress." The Nature of Design, on the other hand, is about starting things, specifically an eco …
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€22.50
Orr David W. Orr: Dangerous Years
A leading environmental thinker takes a hard look at the obstacles and possibilities on the long road to sustainability   This gripping, deeply thoughtful book considers future of civilization i …
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€25.68
Orr David W. Orr: Last Refuge
"Patriotism is the last refuge of scoundrels" -SAMUEL JOHNSON, 1775Updated and revised following the 2004 elections, The Last Refuge describes the current state of American politics against …
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€61.59
Orr David W. Orr: Earth in Mind
In Earth in Mind, noted environmental educator David W. Orr focuses not on problems in education, but on the problem of education. Much of what has gone wrong with the world, he argues, is the result …
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€36.03
Orr David W. Orr: Hope Is an Imperative
For more than three decades, David Orr has been one of the leading voices of the environmental movement, championing the cause of ecological literacy in higher education, helping to establish and sha …
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€56.38
David W. Orr: Design on the Edge
The story of the building of the Adam Joseph Lewis Center at Oberlin College in the context of ecological design, institutional learning, and the green campus movement.The story of the Adam Joseph Le …
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€90.44
David W. Orr: Down to the Wire
"The real fault line in American politics is not between liberals and conservatives…. It is, rather, in how we orient ourselves to the generations to come who will bear the consequences, for b …
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€19.77
Vandana Shiva: Philanthrokapitalismus und die Aushöhlung der Demokratie
In diesem Buch werden Beweise zusammengetragen und die Gefahren aufgezeigt, die von philanthropischen »Entwicklungen« ausgehen, die von Konzernen und einzelnen Milliardären in den Bereichen Agrartech …
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€24.99
David W. Orr: Democracy in a Hotter Time
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€28.31
Liberty Hyde Bailey: The Nature-Study Idea
In The Nature-Study Idea , Liberty Hyde Bailey articulated the essence of a social movement, led by ordinary public-school teachers, that lifted education out of the classroom and placed it into firs …
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€0.00
David W. Orr: Democracy in a Hotter Time
The first major book to deal with the dual crises of democracy and climate change as one interrelated threat to the human future and to identify a path forward.Democracy in a Hotter Time calls for re …
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€63.54
Satish Kumar & Lorna Howarth: Lebendiges Lernen
Bildung, die fit macht für die Zukunft »Lebendiges Lernen« ist ein bahnbrechender und dringender Aufruf an uns alle, die überkommene Fortschrittsperspektive aufzugeben, die den Menschen an die Spitze …
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€18.99