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Energy-Wise Landscape Design

A New Approach for your Home and Garden

By: Sue Reed

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eBook | 1 April 2010

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An inspiring instructional handbook for transforming idealism into social change

The pursuit of freedom and justice is a timeless one, but new activists may not know where to begin, while more experienced ones often become jaded or fatigued. The task of constructing a new society, free from oppression and inequality, can be overwhelming. Tools for facilitating motivation, engagement, and communication can mean the difference between failure and success for activists and social movements.

Educating for Action collects the voices of activists whose combined experience in confronting injustice has generated a wealth of key insights for creating social change. This practical guide explores such topics as:

Community activism and direct democracy
Conflict negotiation, communication, and rhetoric
Law, the educational system, and lifestyle activism
Social media skills, conference planning, and online organizing

Written in an inspirational tone, Educating for Action consciously straddles the line between street activism and classroom instruction. Bridging the gap between these two worlds makes for an engaging and instructive manual for social justice, helping students, teachers, and larger activist communities turn their idealism into action.

Jason Del Gandio is a scholar-activist and assistant professor of rhetoric and public advocacy at Temple University. He is the author of Rhetoric for Radicals: A Handbook for 21st Century Activists .

Anthony J. Nocella II is a scholar-activist and senior fellow of the Dispute Resolution Institute at the Hamline Law School. He is a long-time anti-racism, youth justice, prison abolition, hip hop, animal, disability, and Earth liberation activist and has published over fifty scholarly articles and book chapters and sixteen books.

Industry Reviews

&hellip filled with practical, specific design advice that will inspire you to get up and get working to make a better home landscape for yourself and the planet.&mdash Paul Cawood Hellmund, President/Director, Conway School of Landscape Design

This comprehensive book will be of tremendous value to everyone from individual homeowners to students of environmental design.&mdash Darrell Morrison, Dean Emeritus, School of Environmental Design, University of Georgia

Sue Reed's step-by-step suggestions make change towards sustainable landscaping doable, instead of difficult and unfamiliar.&mdash Leslie Jones Sauer, author of The Once and Future Forest