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Climate Leadership: How California’s Climate Policy Could Change The World

Over the past decade, California has managed decouple the growth of greenhouse gas emissions and the economy, reducing per capita emissions by 17% while maintaining one of the most robust economies in the U.S. With nearly 200,000 clean energy jobs, a vibrant economy, and poised to invest literally hundreds of billions of dollars into a low carbon economy, the world’s eighth largest economic engine is positioning itself as a model for the world. In the fall of 2014, as part of the 25th annual Bioneers Conference, Bioneers convened a very special gathering of key leaders to help start a conversation that seemed long overdue: California’s leadership role in the global effort to combat climate change. This volume, taken from talks given at the 2014 event, is at an accessible, yet detailed look at some of the key areas where California is particularly out in front. Inspired by and featuring Tom Hayden’s incomparable issue framing and historical context, this collection highlights the key next moves according to leading government officials, explores the clean energy slam dunk about to take place from both a structural and investment perspective, and focuses on truly groundbreaking and phenomenally important environmental justice achievements on the horizon. Other topics covered include Water & Climate Change, Natural Systems & Working Lands, Politics & The Inside Game and more.

Immigrants, Settlers, and Laborers: The Socioeconomic Transformation of a Farming Community

2007

"a vivid account...welcomed as a teaching tool." -- American Anthropologist "a substantial contribution...insightful." -- Work and Occupations "superbly details the historic and contemporary processes of settlement, socioeconomic differrentiation, and community building among farm laborers." -- Anthropology of Work Review Although farm laborers continue to work in the worst conditions and earn the lowest wages in the U.S., Du Bry shows that they are reforming rural communities in California and redefining their roles in social and political participation. Due to the increase in high-value and labor-intensive crop production in the state, farm laborers are more than just seasonal laborers. Settlement in rural towns and social mobility have become possibilities for some, and necessitates the reconceptualization of farm laborers from a faceless army of workers to active agents negotiating agricultural labor markets and community social spheres. Du Bry provides a contemporary profile of a community and its residents in an important agricultural region of California."

THE PSYCHOLOGY OF PLACE: A QUALITATIVE STUDY OF MID-LIFE RELOCATION TO SEDONA, ARIZONA

Although defined as the context from which our experiences occur, place often remains in the background of awareness, if not completely unconscious. Place is a subjective and unique experience yet common to all as a primary component in identity development and expression. The purpose of this dissertation research was to expand the understanding of the phenomenon of "psychology of place" as it relates to relocation. This inquiry investigated specifically why adults in mid-life chose to relocate to Sedona, AZ.

Jumping Into Civic Life: Stories of Public Work from Extension Professionals

When it comes to the task of making democracy work as it should in everyday ways and places, professionals who are employed by institutions of many kinds can be a problem. All too often, they use their technical knowledge and expertise in ways that dominate, disable, and sideline neighborhood and community members who aren’t employed as credentialed experts. Or they stay out of public work in the messy, contentious realm of civic life altogether because they aren’t welcome, they see it as an inappropriate activity for professionals to engage in, they don’t know what to do, or they’re afraid of losing their jobs. Through eight richly-detailed oral histories, this book helps to open our imagination to the possibilities for professionals to make constructive contributions to the task of making democracy work as it should. The first-hand stories of public work in these oral histories are told by professionals from six different states who either chose or were invited to jump into civic life as active participants. They help us see what it means and takes to be a “citizen professional” who respects and supports the capacities, intelligence, expertise, and agency of others.