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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 8/14/11 - 8/21/11
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Thoreau Gallery Opening - 30 Years Behind the Easel. A Celebration of Our New Exhibition -. 30 Years Behind the Easel. Thoreau Gallery, Thoreau Center for Sustainability. Thursday, August 18, 5:00 to 7:00. Exhibition dates: August 18 through October 14, 2011. 30 Years Behind the Easel. Posted by Whole Earth Library. Thoreau Center Brown Bag: Top Ten Fundraising Tips. Presenter: Darian Rodriguez Heyman, Editor of Nonprofit Management 101. Wednesday, August 17, 12:30 to 2:00. Pacific Room at Tides. After f...
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 1/1/12 - 1/8/12
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New Books in the New Year. Thanks to the Northern California Directory of Independent Booksellers. The Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability has received more than a score of books in the areas of Nonprofit Sector Resources, Social Issues, Policy Economics and Philosophy plus a few works of fiction. Here is a sampling of the new books now in the collection. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy.
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 9/25/11 - 10/2/11
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Banned Books Week, Sept 24 to Oct 1. It's that time of year again.Banned Books Week! If you would like to learn more and discover what books have been banned or challenged in the United States, visit the Banned Books Website. And be sure to check out American Library Association's lists of Frequently Challenged Books. And Tango Makes Three, has returned to the top of the list for 2010, and you might be surprised by some of the books that are also on it. Regardless, there are lots of fun reading ideas.
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 12/4/11 - 12/11/11
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California Coastal Commission. California Coastal Access Guide. Kim Klein. Fundraising for Social Change. 5th edition. (2007). Mario Morino. Leap of Reason: managing to outcomes in an era of scarcity. From the publisher: Leap of Reason. Morino calls on funders to empower nonprofits to manage smarter through greater use of information on performance and impact—rather than forcing them to meet myriad evaluation and reporting requirements that do little to help the organization learn and improve. ...The lea...
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 5/5/13 - 5/12/13
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Carl Sagan, the noted astrophysicist from Cornell University now sadly departed to be one with the cosmos, wrote a number of books that be termed more philosophical than scientific. The selection we have chosen for this month is one such work. Entitled "Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors: A Search for Who We Are,". This work, co-written with his wife Ann Druyan, explores what it means to be human and our place in the universe. An anthology and the seventh volume of his Radical Sixties series. The series ...
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 11/13/11 - 11/20/11
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Would like to highlight some of the numerous titles on population issues that we have in the collection. Lester R. Brown, Gary Gardner, and Brian Halweil editors. Beyond Malthus: Nineteen Dimensions of the Population Challenge. Examines methods such as the expansion of international family planning, investment in educating young people in the developing world and promotion of a shift towards smaller families which will represent the most humane response to the possible ravages of the population explosion.
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New Books in the New Year. Thanks to the Northern California Directory of Independent Booksellers. The Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability has received more than a score of books in the areas of Nonprofit Sector Resources, Social Issues, Policy Economics and Philosophy plus a few works of fiction. Here is a sampling of the new books now in the collection. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. The Honor Code: How Moral Revolutions Happen. Pavithra Mehta and Suchitra Shenoy.
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 10/16/11 - 10/23/11
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World Blogging Action Day: Food, Sustainable Food. Is an annual event held every October that unites. Bloggers world-wide in posting about the same issue on the same day. To raise awareness and trigger a global discussion around an important issue that impacts us all. This year Blog Action Day is being held on October 16th to coincide with. Which commemorates the founding of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in. Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center. By Jerry Mander of the...
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: 7/17/11 - 7/24/11
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Some weekly links for July 22. A few studies and reports of import that caught my eye this week:. The Institute for Higher Education Leadership and Policy at California State University, Sacramento. Issued a report this week entitled Consequences of Neglect: Performance Trends in California Higher Education. California ranks last in total funding per student. Tuition and fee increases exceed the national average rate. A new study from the Natural Resources Defense Council. The Environmental Working Group.
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Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center for Sustainability - San Francisco: Books to Explore the Great Outdoors
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Books to Explore the Great Outdoors. With the weather so delightfully mild as we head into spring, here are a few books in the Whole Earth Library at Thoreau Center. Collection to help you explore the beauty and bounty of the Presidio. San Francisco, the Bay Area and beyond. The Whole Earth Library has maps of the Presidio available for those wishing to explore the wonder around us during their lunch break or after work. Walking San Francisco by Tom Downs. The Bay Area Ridge Trail by Jean Rusmore. This v...
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