Democracy is on trial in the climate crisis. It is charged with having failed to prevent dangerous climate change. To its critics, the very same features of democracy praised as its defining virtues—popular sovereignty, the accountability and responsiveness of elected officials, public debate and deliberation—are handicaps that impede effective climate action. However, this trial is not over and it would not be safe to deliver a verdict at this stage. The case for authoritarian regimes is flawed in both theory and practice and while it is late for preventing the worst impacts of climate change, there is still a window to provide a climate-safe future. Here, it is overwhelmingly democratic nations that are taking the lead. With this in mind, this Report focuses on democracy and the climate crisis in the Asia and the Pacific region. A regional approach based on case studies has been chosen to contextualize the challenges to democracy arising from this crisis. The Asia and the Pacific region is significant for several reasons—it is the most populous in the world; it is a region that will be disproportionately affected by climate change and where many countries are considered highly vulnerable; and, as this Report makes clear, it is also a place where there have been vibrant innovations to democratic institutions and practices for dealing with the climate crisis.
Healthy LOW CARB SLOW COOKER CHICKEN MEALS are the perfect way to eat well without sacrificing the foods or flavors you love. Get started and see what delicious and healthy slow cooker meals you can enjoy this winter! Whether you had had a long day and don’t want a labor-intensive meal, or you are looking to do some make-ahead food prep, this LOW CARB SLOW COOKER CHICKEN MEALS has what you desire. There's nothing easier than throwing in your ingredients and letting the slow cooker do the work for you, which allows you to focus your attention on other important things. If you're a novice at slow cooking or if you haven't slow cooked in a while now is the perfect time to start! Get cooking and try out the following ideas for LOW CARB SLOW COOKER CHICKEN MEALS, which are Healthy and Delicious and helps you losing weight also.
Do your ears hang low? Do they wobble to and fro? These bunnies will know! This classic childhood song paired with fun illustrations is sure to have you and your little one singing and laughing along during storytime!
A guide to slimming down and shaping up in two weeks combines intensive workouts--combining Pilates, circuit training, and yoga--with an energy-enhancing diet plan, mindfulness exercises, and at-home spa ritual.
Do you want to know how much sodium you should take? Are you suffering from heart complications? Do you want to know how to heal your heart with a low sodium diet? You may have been suffering from a poor diet that is filled with excess sodium and extra salt, and you want to make a change, starting now, you know what your problem is. Whether you are suffering from acute kidney disease, high blood pressure, heart failure, edema, or some other condition, you know that the only way to solve your problem and transform your life is to embrace a reduced-sodium, low or no added salt diet. This might seem scary at first-, after all, most of our favorite snacks and meals are filled with extra salt and increased levels of sodium-that is what makes it taste so good. That is what our brains remember when we take a bite into a greasy burger and salted crispy fries. We remember the salty grease and the savory crispiness of the French fries that we ate for our meal- we want more- we always want more, and we live in an age where products like meat and salty junk food are easily attained for a relatively reasonable price. It can be hard to take the first step in building yourself a new life, particularly if you have to bring other people with you. Sometimes friends and family can be your biggest hindrance. There is something about food and beverages that makes otherwise lovely and reasonable people act entirely out of character if they feel intimidated or left behind, in the same way, that an alcoholic feels threatened by the only person not drinking alcohol at dinner. However, hopefully, with the techniques mentioned in this book, you can help them see everything from your point of view and what you are trying to accomplish. In this book, I will discuss the following: - Low sodium diet overview. - Operation and tricks for the slow cooker. - Sodium consumption: how to balance consumption and how much you should consume. - Low sodium recipes to get started with and a 21-day meal plan. You are in charge of your body and your health. Keep your changes consistent and stick to them until you slowly get used to the change that you have implemented from your usual routine. Then make another change and another change and another change-until one day, you find that your whole life has been turned upside down. You can keep track of your sodium and potassium levels and aim to keep them within the guidelines detailed. I highly recommend that you keep a note of your blood pressure before commencing the diet. And then keep track of it as you follow the diet. As long as you lower your sodium and raise your potassium levels - you'll see incredible results FAST. Scroll to the top of the page and click the "Buy Now" Button!
If you’re on a budget, it can be challenging to eat a low-carb and healthy diet—but it’s not impossible. Melissa Corea, who has run full-service hotels and restaurants throughout the country, reveals how to do it in this lifestyle manual. Her recipes are easy and fun, and her dishes can be made with a couple of pots and/or dishes. In fact, the author created the recipes using a fifteen-year-old four-burner electric range and oven, a basic refrigerator and freezer, and no fancy gadgets. Recipes include green tea pudding, which includes ground ginger, tofu, and heavy cream; gingerbread cookies with cinnamon, nutmeg, and clove; and dark-chocolate shortbread cookies, which include—you guessed it—chocolate (and other good stuff too). You’ll also find recipes for lemon chia-seed cookies, rainbow meringue cookies, chocolate-mint mousse parfait, Neapolitan clouds, lemon thyme soufflé, chocolate crepes, and more. The recipes can be made in batches, transported easily to the office or school, and made quickly. You can tweak them as you wish to meet your tastes. Satisfy your sweet tooth without spending too much money with this collection of recipes that feel naughty but are actually quite healthy.
An illuminating look at the emotional costs of mobility faced by first-generation and low-income college students. While college initiates a major transition in all students’ lives, low-income and first-generation students attending elite schools are often entering entirely new worlds. Amid the financial and academic challenges of adapting to college, their emotional lives, too, undergo a transformation. Surrounded by peers from different classes and cultural backgrounds, they are faced with an impossible choice: turn away from their former lives to blend in or stay true to themselves and remain on the outside. An ethnography that draws on in-depth interviews with one hundred and fifty first-generation and low-income students across eighteen elite institutions, Polished uncovers the hidden consequences of the promise of social mobility in today’s educational landscape. Sociologist Melissa Osborne reveals how the very support designed to propel first-generation students forward can unexpectedly reshape their identities, often putting them at odds with their peers and families. Without direct institutional support, this emotional journey can lead to alienation, mental health challenges, poor academic outcomes, and difficult choices between upward mobility or maintaining authenticity and community. Whether you're an educator, advocate, or student, Polished provides a powerful perspective on the uncharted challenges of social mobility and personal identity during college.
OC Come to me, all you that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.OCOMathew 11:28 (AKJV). In the early 1990s, a grassroots coalition of churches in Baltimore, Maryland helped launch what would become a national movement. Joining forces with labor and low-wage worker organizations, they passed the first municipal living wage ordinance. Since then, over 144 municipalities and counties as well as numerous universities and local businesses in the United States have enacted such ordinances. Although religious persons and organizations have been important both in the origins of the living wage movement and in its continuing success, they are often ignored or under analyzed. Drawing on participant observation in multiple cities, All You That Labor analyzes and evaluates the contributions of religious activists to the movement. The book explores the ways religious organizations do this work in concert with low-wage workers, the challenges religious activists face, and how people of faith might better nurture moral agency in relation to the political economy. Ultimately, C. Melissa Snarr provides clarity on how to continue to cultivate, renew, and expand religious resources dedicated to the moral agency of low-wage workers and their allies.
So you want to homeschool but don’t think you can afford it. This book is a compendium of ideas for the family that wants to start or continue homeschooling on a tight budget. You’ll find it all here: • Ideas for making money while staying at home. • Sources for an inexpensive curriculum. • Thousands of ideas for affordable teaching tools. • Hundreds of suggestions for low-cost field trips. • Ways to save on everything from housing to utilities. • Ways to get free or low-cost computers.
During the 1920s and 1930s, anthropologists and folklorists became obsessed with uncovering connections between African Americans and their African roots. At the same time, popular print media and artistic productions tapped the new appeal of black folk life, highlighting African-styled voodoo as an essential element of black folk culture. A number of researchers converged on one site in particular, Sapelo Island, Georgia, to seek support for their theories about "African survivals," bringing with them a curious mix of both influences. The legacy of that body of research is the area's contemporary identification as a Gullah community. This wide-ranging history upends a long tradition of scrutinizing the Low Country blacks of Sapelo Island by refocusing the observational lens on those who studied them. Cooper uses a wide variety of sources to unmask the connections between the rise of the social sciences, the voodoo craze during the interwar years, the black studies movement, and black land loss and land struggles in coastal black communities in the Low Country. What emerges is a fascinating examination of Gullah people's heritage, and how it was reimagined and transformed to serve vastly divergent ends over the decades.
Nutrition for the Older Adult is a clear, comprehensive text that introduces students to nutrition and health promotion for older adults. Covering such important topics as the physiological changes of aging, weight and nutrition problems in older adults, nutritional assessment and support for the elderly, and diet and cultural diversity as well as exercise prescriptions for older adults, this text is an essential resource for students in the fields of nutrition, nursing, and gerontology. Important Notice: The digital edition of this book is missing some of the images or content found in the physical edition.
Meet the Council of Girlfriends: Grace, the relentless romantic; La Diva Lola, a celebrity chef with a secret sex life; Mamma Mia, who took the Husband & Children exit to the suburbs; the fabulous Ellie Archer, a journalist who follows her heart to Paris; and Mistress of the Universe/PR exec Lexi James, a heroine more Jo March than Bridget Jones.Lexi has a lot of women in her life, but no man. She was engaged to Mr. Almost Perfect, but called off the wedding after she had a meltdown in a suburban supermarket. Still dealing with the debris of that failed relationship, Lexi is terrified of making another committment, and another mistake. Fortunately everyone--from the members of the COG to the bubbies at the Jewish Retirement home where she volunteers--has some advice for Lexi on what she should do next.
Autumn recipes from Sourdough-Sage Stuffing to Grand Marnier Soufflé: “Well suited to the home cook who revels in the simple pleasures of the table” (Saveur). CANAL HOUSE COOKING, VOLUME N° 2, FALL & HOLIDAY is filled with recipes that will make you want to run into the kitchen and start cooking. It is a collection of our favorite fall and holiday recipes. We are home cooks writing about home cooking for other home cooks. Our recipes are easy to prepare, and completely doable for the novice and experienced cook alike. Foods of the holidays are classics, tied to tradition and memory. We cook our grandmothers’, aunts’, and mothers’ recipes to bring them to life and invite the people we miss to the table again. For us, it wouldn’t be a holiday without Neenie’s Sourdough-Sage Stuffing, or Jim’s Roast Capon, or Peggy’s Grand Marnier Soufflé. But no matter what your menu, the most important thing is to join together for a meal and share the intimacy of the table. Canal House Cooking, Volume N° 2, Fall & Holiday is the second book of our award-winning series of seasonal recipes. We publish three volumes a year: Summer, Fall & Holiday, and Winter & Spring, each filled with delicious recipes for you from us. Cook all year long with Canal House Cooking! 72 delicious triple-tested recipes
Much has been written about the failure of White American public school teachers to effectively teach low-income children of color to read and write. Scholars have offered numerous explanations for this failure, including the reluctance of teacher preparation programs to address cultural competence and the lack of cultural diversity among teacher educators. In response to reported failures such as high attrition rates of novice teachers and low test scores, American public schools are being subjected to increased standardization of the curriculum and high stakes testing. This book provides rich illustrations of White early literacy teachers who choose to remain in low-income school communities, where they effectively and passionately embrace their students, families, and communities. Blending the teachers’ successful practices, shown in in-depth interviews excavating their identities and life experiences, with theoretical frameworks about teaching and learning, Early Childhood Literacy Teachers in High Poverty Schools: A Study of Boundary Crossing discusses the responsibility of public educators to cross geographical, economic, and political divisions on behalf of their students, and offers strategies for teacher educators to equip future teachers for these tasks.
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Ludtke brings the voices of women having children on their own into a public debate from which these voices have been conspicuously absent. Interweaving their voices with her own savvy and intuitive commentary, she has written a vitally important book."—Carol Gilligan, author of In a Different Voice
Numerous scholars have noticed that certain political institutions, including federalism, majoritarian electoral systems, and presidentialism, are linked to lower levels of income redistribution. This book offers a political geography explanation for those observed patterns. Each of these institutions is strongly shaped by geography and provides incentives for politicians to target their appeals and government resources to localities. Territorialized institutions also shape citizens’ preferences in ways that can undermine the national coalition in favor of redistribution. Moreover, territorial institutions increase the number of veto points in which anti-redistributive actors can constrain reform efforts. These theoretical connections between the politics of place and redistributive outcomes are explored in theory, empirical analysis, and case studies of the USA, Germany, and Argentina.
Written in an engaging, highly readable style, it is ideal for students, administrators, legal professionals, non-science professionals and general readers with little or no science background, the handbook is a user-friendly overview of our physical, biological and ecological environment that offers up-to-date coverage of the major scientific fields that in combination form the structure of geoscience. Students who are enrolled in a geoscience course or one of its many subdisciplines will find this book to be an invaluable resource and reference to supplement classroom instruction and provide greater insight into many of the topics usually discussed. The emphasis is on readability, with clear, example-driven explanations refined by over 35 years of experience of instruction and student feedback.
Banking system collapses have annihilated credit markets and even the few borrowers with investment grade credit ratings cannot borrow. Conditions are worse than when the monetary system collapsed in 1931. Government revenue streams have shrunk to a trickle and services have shrivelled commensurately. Benefits are virtually non-existent, so protests, civil disobedience and riots continue to rise. Developed nation hope for emerging nation growth to provide export markets vanished with China plummeting into prolonged recession. Instead, China is trying to distract its increasingly restive population from their problems with an aggressive foreign policy over military control of the South China Sea ... Can this actually happen? Indeed it can! In fact, this book is a searing indictment of the agenda now adopted by governments and central banks, which is likely to result in yet more bank failures, countries leaving the eurozone, dysfunctional capital markets and higher taxes and reduced government services and benefits. Yet it is still not too late to choose a different path that will help put capitalism back on track. Skene and Kidd outline what that path should be to ensure a prosperous rather than austere future.
Homemade Shouldn't Be Hectic Do you wish you could slow down and create a home you and your family love and enjoy spending time in? Melissa K. Norris, author of The Made-from-Scratch Life and voice of the Pioneering Today podcast, offers down-to-earth tips and guidance to help you learn how to... bake old-fashioned recipes (everything from biscuits to shepherd's pie) with quick, stress-free steps grow, harvest, and preserve culinary and medicinal herbs (with DIY tutorials for soaps, salves, and balms) make your own cultured and fermented foods at home following simple instructions for buttermilk, sour cream, sourdough, and more simplify your routine and declutter your home with room-by-room guides and Depression-era wisdom Open your heart to God-given rest and discover practical and tangible ways you can craft your home into a refuge for yourself and the ones you love.
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