epub |eng | 2016-03-21 | Author:Wayne Pacelle

CHAPTER SEVEN Global Growth Stocks: Elephants, Lions, Great Apes, Whales, Sharks, and Other Living Capital “Can he who has discovered only some of the values of whalebone and whale oil ...

epub |eng | 2015-04-19 | Author:David S. Abraham

IX Sustainable Use The Environmental Calculus of the Rare Metal Age Zhang Yang’e, a Chinese farmer from the remote village of Dingnan in Jiangxi Province, lives some ten meters from ...

epub |eng | 2015-09-17 | Author:Peter Orner

WALKING TO THEIR DEATHS A few weeks after I got the job at the real estate company, in September of 2004, I started an organization on campus to help local ...

epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Peter Dauvergne [SPi]

Defining “Organic” and “Grass-Fed” Beef Under its2002 National Organic Program, the USDA defines the term “organic” with more exacting standards than the term “natural.” Accredited agents inspect farms and certify ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2007-12-31 | Author:Peter Dauvergne [Dauvergne, Peter]

16 The Ecology of Big Beef Producing so much beef involves many ecological costs. Farmers are tilling land with pesticides and fertilizers to grow enough grain to fatten cattle quickly. ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Thomas E. Hall [Hall, Thomas E.]

These communal binges became less popular as the 1820s progressed, due in part to the temperance movement (Rorabaugh 1979, 169). But as communal binges declined in popularity, another problem arose: ...

epub |eng | 2011-03-03 | Author:Robert Bryce

Sources: BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2009, http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/globalbp_uk_english/reports_and_publications/statistical_energy_review_2008/STAGING/local_assets/2009_downloads/renewables_section_2009.pdf; ICF International, Table 7, “Availability, Economics, and Production Potential of North American Unconventional Natural Gas Supplies,” November 2008, http://www.ingaa.org/cms/31/7306/7628/7833.aspx, 51; Navigant ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Martin Weitzman [Weitzman, Martin]

None of that yet includes the truly frightening low-probability events. There’s a huge difference between a likely sea-level rise of 0.3 to 1 meters (1 to 3 feet) by the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Abdulkader Aljandali

mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Earl Shorris

* * * 1 New York Times, April 19, 1992. Mitchell is the author of The Campaign of the Century: Upton Sinclair’s Race for Governor of California and the Birth ...

epub |eng | | Author:Robert Kuttner

8 TRADING AWAY A DECENT ECONOMY The structuring of the world trading system in the era after World War II is at the heart of our story of how the ...

epub |eng | 2016-05-26 | Author:Pankaj Ghemawat

Transformation Transformation is a way in which firms may directly try to reduce the need for adaptation—by seeking to shape or transform the local environments in which they operate—instead of ...

epub |eng | 2016-06-24 | Author:Elder-Vass, Dave [Elder-Vass, Dave]

Constructing monopoly using technology Apple’s most significant contribution to Gillespie’s square of regulation, though, is arguably to the fourth, technological, side. MP3 tracks from filesharing sites can be copied easily ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-06 | Author:Paul Le Blanc

9 A Reluctant Memoir of the 1950s and 1960s I have been asked to write a memoir that would give a sense of the Old Left/New Left realities of the ...

epub |eng | | Author:Paul K. Conkin

PART FOUR Climate Change Today the most complex environmental issue facing humans is the threat of rapid climate change. Warming has clearly occurred over much of the earth during the ...