Download or read book Le Manuel du Permaculturiste written by Axel Bourgais and published by Imnlp-p. This book was released on 2015-02-01 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La vie c’est vivre les conséquences des choix que nous faisons en tant qu’individus ! Et la société n’a rien à voir avec cela et ne paiera pas pour les mauvaises décisions que nous prenons. L’histoire de l’humanité est pleine d’événements; depuis l’arrivée d’Adam et Ève sur cette planète l’humain a entrepris d’utiliser cette capacité unique que Dieu, l’Unique, lui a prêté et qui est la capacité de faire des choix. Malheureusement, notre capacité de faire des choix sera toujours limitée par la quantité d’éléments parmi lesquels nous pourrons choisir. Certains l’appellent la liberté de choisir et d’autres l’appellent le droit de choisir... N’importe comment, vous et moi, nous ne pourrons exercer cette capacité qu’une fois que nous serons présentés devant la possibilité de faire des choix. Cette capacité de pouvoir faire des choix a façonné l’histoire de l’humanité tout autant que nos histoires individuelles, familiales et sociales. En fait, l’humain que nous sommes est en train de perdre cette capacité et cela ne fera de nous que du bétail et certaine-ment nous serons encore plus bas que ce-la. A la fin de la 2ème guerre mondiale, nombre d’individus ont choisi de vivre en ville, choisi de travailler dans les usines, choisi d’immigrer vers d’autres pays, vers des villes… Et ceux qui sont restés dans les campagnes ont choisi de s’endetter pour « mieux » exploiter leur fer-mes, leur parcelles de terre ...etc. A la découverte de l’électronique, l’informatique et Internet, un certain nombre de nouvel-les professions, nouveaux emplois, nouvelles activités, nouvelles formes d’entreprises et nouvelles façons d’entreprendre, travailler ...etc., ont vu le jour… Les uns se sont retrouvés donc prisonniers de leur dettes et matériels et les autres des factures liées à la ville. Que leur reste-t-il de cette capacité de choisir ? Seul Dieu sait. Si vous leur demandez, certains vous répondront : « C’est comme ça ! » et d’autres ne comprendront pas votre question ! C’est comme si nous étions ici sur cette terre juste pour payer et cela, malheureusement, est devenu la raison d’être de plus d’un parmi nous ! Que s’est-il passé donc ? La réponse est longue, et la vie est trop cour-te. Contentons-nous de dire que nous nous sommes fait avoir le moment même quand nous avons pensé que nos écoles allaient for-mer nos enfants et que nos institutions al-laient faire les bons choix pour nous et notre futur. Nous contenter devient le seul choix que nous pouvons faire, mais est-ce un choix ? Attendre est un autre choix paraît-il ! Voulez-vous attendre, c’est votre choix. Attendre risque de devenir votre seule raison d’être, peut-être que vous avez choisi de jouer à la loterie en attendant ! En tous cas, il existe de nouvelles professions et de nouvelles opportunités qui vont sûrement vous permettre de reprendre une partie de votre capacité de choisir et peut-être vous libérer. Encore une fois c’est à vous de choisir - au cas où vous le pouvez encore - et pensez que vous le méritez. A moins que vous n’ayez renoncé à cette capacité qui fait de nous cette créature potentiellement «noble ». Permaculture Design La permaculture 1,2,3
Download or read book Seven Bad Ideas written by Jeff Madrick and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the former economics columnist for Harper’s and The New York Times, a bold indictment of some of our most accepted mainstream economic theories—why they’re wrong, and how they’ve been harming America and the world. Ideas have the power to change history. But what happens when they are bad? In a tour de force of economics, history, and analysis, Jeff Madrick shows how theories on austerity, inflation, and efficient markets have become unassailable mantras over recent years, to the detriment of the country as a whole. Working backwards from the Great Recession, Madrick pulls no punches as he reconsiders seven of the greatest false idols of modern economic theory, from Say’s Law to Milton Friedman, illustrating how these ideas have been damaging markets, infrastructure, and individual livelihoods for years. Trenchant, sweeping, and empirical, Seven Bad Ideas resoundingly disrupts the status quo of modern economic theory.
Download or read book The Real World of Technology written by Ursula Franklin and published by House of Anansi. This book was released on 1999-06-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this expanded edition of her bestselling 1989 CBC Massey Lectures, renowned scientist and humanitarian Ursula M. Franklin examines the impact of technology upon our lives and addresses the extraordinary changes since The Real World of Technology was first published. In four new chapters, Franklin tackles contentious issues, such as the dilution of privacy and intellectual property rights, the impact of the current technology on government and governance, the shift from consumer capitalism to investment capitalism, and the influence of the Internet upon the craft of writing.
Download or read book A History of Entrepreneurship written by Robert F Hébert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-05-18 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book establishes a chronological trace of the entrepreneur as treated in economic literature in order to give a more wholesome perspective to contemporary writings and teachings on entrepreneurship. It focuses on the nature and role of the entrepreneur, and of entrepreneurship, as revealed in economic literature as early as the eighteenth century, when Richard Cantillon first coined the term 'entrepreneur'. The authors then trace how Joseph Schumpeter's perspective, among other’s, on entrepreneurship came to dominate the world's understanding of the term. Due to Schumpeter’s dominant influence, entrepreneurship has come to occupy a primary role in the theory of economic development. In this book Hébert and Link discuss various key topics including the German Tradition, the Austrian and the English School of thought as well as individuals such as Alfred Marshall and Jeremy Bentham. The historical survey also illustrates the tension that often exists between "theory" and "practice" and how it has been difficult for economic theory to assimilate a core concept that plays a vital role in social and economic change. Finally, the book exposes the many different facets of entrepreneurship as they have been perceived by some of the great economists throughout the ages.
Download or read book A Treatise on Political Economy written by Antoine Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (conde) and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A Treatise on Political Economy"by Antonie Louis Claude Destutt de Tracy (1754-1836) is a foundational text of nineteenth-century, free-market economic thought and remains one of the classics of nineteenth-century French economic liberalism. Destutt de Tracy was one of the founders of the classical liberal republican group known as the Ideologues, which included Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say, Marquis de Condorcet, and Madame de Stael.In this volume, Destutt de Tracy provides one of the clearest statements of the economic principles of the Ideologues. Breaking with the physiocratic orthodoxy of the eighteenth century, Destutt de Tracy denies that land is the source of all productive labor and focuses his attention upon manufacturing and manufacturers as the producers of utility and, therefore, of value and of wealth. Placing the entrepreneur at the center of his view of economic activty, he argues against luxurious consumption of the idle rich and recommends a market economy with low taxation and minimum state intervention.Destutt de Tracy sent the text of "A Treatise on Political Economy "to Thomas Jefferson in hopes of securing its translation in the United States. It was met with enthusiastic approval. Jefferson wrote to the publisher, "The merit of this work will, I hope, place it in the hands of every reader in our country." Jeremy Jennings isProfessor of Political Theory at Queen Mary, University of London."
Download or read book The Physiology of Industry written by Albert Frederick Mummery and published by London : J. Murray. This book was released on 1889 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Successful Living in This Machine Age written by Edward A. Filene and published by Lewis Press. This book was released on 2007-03 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREFACE. THE Author of this very practical treatise on Scotch Loch - Fishing desires clearly that it may be of use to all who had it. He does not pretend to have written anything new, but to have attempted to put what he has to say in as readable a form as possible. Everything in the way of the history and habits of fish has been studiously avoided, and technicalities have been used as sparingly as possible. The writing of this book has afforded him pleasure in his leisure moments, and that pleasure would be much increased if he knew that the perusal of it would create any bond of sympathy between himself and the angling community in general. This section is interleaved with blank shects for the readers notes. The Author need hardly say that any suggestions addressed to the case of the publishers, will meet with consideration in a future edition. We do not pretend to write or enlarge upon a new subject. Much has been said and written-and well said and written too on the art of fishing but loch-fishing has been rather looked upon as a second-rate performance, and to dispel this idea is one of the objects for which this present treatise has been written. Far be it from us to say anything against fishing, lawfully practised in any form but many pent up in our large towns will bear us out when me say that, on the whole, a days loch-fishing is the most convenient. One great matter is, that the loch-fisher is depend- ent on nothing but enough wind to curl the water, -and on a large loch it is very seldom that a dead calm prevails all day, -and can make his arrangements for a day, weeks beforehand whereas the stream- fisher is dependent for a good take on the state of the water and however pleasant and easy it may be for one living near the banks of a good trout stream or river, it is quite another matter to arrange for a days river-fishing, if one is looking forward to a holiday at a date some weeks ahead. Providence may favour the expectant angler with a good day, and the water in order but experience has taught most of us that the good days are in the minority, and that, as is the case with our rapid running streams, -such as many of our northern streams are, -the water is either too large or too small, unless, as previously remarked, you live near at hand, and can catch it at its best. A common belief in regard to loch-fishing is, that the tyro and the experienced angler have nearly the same chance in fishing, -the one from the stern and the other from the bow of the same boat. Of all the absurd beliefs as to loch-fishing, this is one of the most absurd. Try it. Give the tyro either end of the boat he likes give him a cast of ally flies he may fancy, or even a cast similar to those which a crack may be using and if he catches one for every three the other has, he may consider himself very lucky. Of course there are lochs where the fish are not abundant, and a beginner may come across as many as an older fisher but we speak of lochs where there are fish to be caught, and where each has a fair chance. Again, it is said that the boatman has as much to do with catching trout in a loch as the angler. Well, we dont deny that. In an untried loch it is necessary to have the guidance of a good boatman but the same argument holds good as to stream-fishing...
Download or read book The Restoration Economy written by Storm Cunningham and published by . This book was released on 2011-08-19 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the global industry that is revitalizing natural and man - made environments, Cunningham explores the rapid rise of restorative development, details how the information age is catalyzing the transition from development to restoration, and demonstrates how restoration is ''greening'' residential, commercial, and public construction.
Download or read book Permaculture written by David Holmgren and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-18 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Revised edition 2017
Download or read book Culture and Tourism in a Smart Globalized and Sustainable World written by Vicky Katsoni and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-06-21 with total page 771 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gathers the proceedings of the 7th International Conference, with the theme “Culture and Tourism in a Smart, Globalized and Sustainable World,” held on Hydra Island, Greece, on June 17–19, 2020, published with the support of the International Association of Cultural and Digital Tourism. Highlighting the contributions made by numerous writers to the advancement of tourism research, this book presents a critical academic discourse on sustainable practices in the smart tourism context, improving readers’ understanding of, and stimulating future debates in, this critical area. In addition to the knowledge economy and the concept of smart destinations, the book addresses new modes of tourism management and development, as well as emerging technologies, including location-based services, the Internet of things, smart cities, mobile services, gamification, digital collections and the virtual visitor, social media, social networking, and augmented reality.
Download or read book The Restoration Economy written by Storm Cunningham and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicling the global industry that is revitalizing natural and man-made environments, Cunningham explores the rapid rise of restorative development, details how the information age is catalyzing the transition from development to restoration, and demonstrates how restoration is "greening" residential, commercial, and public construction.
