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Dreaming of a just and sustainable future? Read these.

Corporate Knights

The Bullard and Wright book provides a bridge of sorts to the more academic titles that follow, works that shift the focus from environmental justice to climate justice. Among this second set of three titles, the new book by prolific legal scholar Cass Sunstein is likely to garner the most attention.

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Celebrating the International Day of Education - How DP World Is Helping Prepare the Next Generation

3BL Media

In Ecuador, DP World has partnered with ESPOL University to deliver a port-focused technical qualification through the Academic Unit for Technical and Technological Training (AUFTT) in Posorja. Recognizing Academic Excellence Celebrating student success is just as important as creating opportunities.

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Can sustainability save capitalism?

GreenBiz

My inbox and bookshelf have been groaning lately under the heft of some weighty books, essays and reports heralding a kinder, gentler era for capitalism. For most of those years, those visions and proposals were relegated to a relatively small group of academics and activists toiling in a world unto themselves. Joel Makower.

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Antioch University Receives $1 Million Gift to Create the Tom Wessels Environmental Scholarship

3BL Media

Scholarships to be Awarded to Historically Underrepresented and Most Academically Qualified Students. He is the author of numerous books, and the latest is New England's Roadside Ecology: Explore 30 of the Region's Unique Natural Areas. SOURCE: Antioch University.

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Sounding the Alarm on Global Learning Poverty

3BL Media

DESCRIPTION: As the executive director and co-creator of NABU , a New York-based nonprofit publisher of multilingual books on a free digital app, I am proud to be part of the global community dedicated to tackling the global literacy crisis. Words by Tanyella Evans. SOURCE: TriplePundit. and I Love Being Me! and the Philippines this year.

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Fired up: Meet 30 youth leaders sparking change

Corporate Knights

The 28-year-old climate-action instructor and sustainable-operations manager was hoping for a blissful escape before the new academic year. Instead, I found myself in the thick of climate change’s brutal reality,” she says. The producers shared with me how climate change affected their crops and lives.

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Marketing My Four Amazon Economics E-Books that Sell for $1 Each

Matthew E. Kahn

Most economists do not write books. The profession does not reward book authors and not every book sells like Freakonomics or Why Nations Fail. The incentives of academic economics also rewards economists for presenting their main regression and writing up the results or writing down their model and solving it.