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The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for the Treatment of Historic Properties with Guidelines for Preserving, Rehabilitating, Restoring & Reconstructing Historic Buildings

Description: Booklet providing guidance related to the preservation, rehabilitation, restoration, and reconstruction of historic buildings for owners, building managers, preservation consultants, architects, contractors, and any others who might manage or engage in those types of projects. Each type of project has subsections describing building materials; building features and systems; building site; setting (district/neighborhood); code-required work; resilience to natural hazards; sustainability; and ne… more
Date: 2017
Creator: Grimmer, Anne E.
Partner: UNT Libraries Government Documents Department
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Making a Difference

Description: Lesson plan containing a collection of activities and resources regarding making a difference and that meet state education standards and national sustainability standards for the 4th grade level.
Date: August 29, 2014
Creator: Parsons, John
Partner: UNT Office of Sustainability
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Pollution in Ecosystems

Description: Lesson plan containing a collection of activities and resources regarding the study of ecosystems that meet state education standards and national sustainability standards for the 6th grade level.
Date: June 26, 2014
Creator: Ibarra, Vanessa
Partner: UNT Office of Sustainability
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Exploring Sustainability VALS: Sustainability Value, Lifestyle Practices and Stewardship

Description: Living sustainability is a set of behaviors for the long-term functioning of society. Sustainability VALS provides the clothing and textiles industry distinctive insight into comprehending the phenomenon through the application of the appropriate theoretical platform. The objectives are to identify the dimensionality of sustainability value, sustainability practices and sustainability stewardship in consumers’ perceptive, and to examine the impacts of sustainability value and stewardship on sus… more
Date: December 2011
Creator: Lee, Stacy Hyun-Nam
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Executive Order - Stewardship of the Ocean, Our Coasts, and the Great Lakes

Description: This order establishes a national policy to ensure the protection, maintenance, and restoration of the health of ocean, coastal, and Great Lakes ecosystems and resources, enhance the sustainability of ocean and coastal economies, preserve maritime heritage, support sustainable uses and access, provide for adaptive management to enhance understanding of and capacity to respond to climate change and ocean acidification, and coordinate with national security and foreign policy interests. This ord… more
Date: July 19, 2010
Creator: United States. President (2009- : Obama)
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Tunza: The UNEP Magazine for Youth, Volume 2, Number 2, 2004

Description: Tunza is a magazine published by the UN Environment Programme about environmental issues from a youth perspective. This issue is about cultural diversity and indigenous peoples, and their traditional lands and lifestyles, which can benefit global society through the production of natural medicines and other products.
Date: 2004
Creator: Lean, Geoffrey
Partner: UNT Libraries
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Foundations of Environmental Ethics

Description: This book examines the social and philosophical attitudes in Western culture that relate to the environment including aesthetics, wildlife, and land use. Both the historical significance and a framework for further discussions of environmental ethics are discussed in the book.
Date: 1989
Creator: Hargrove, Eugene C., 1944-
Partner: UNT Center For Environmental Philosophy
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