Environmental Economics
mobi |eng | 2010-03-09 | Author:Annie Leonard

The New Economics Foundation, the think tank that produces the annual Happy Planet Index, explains that “it is possible to live long, happy lives with a much smaller ecological footprint ...
( Category: Conservation June 11,2015 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-24 | Author:Wangari Maathai [Maathai, Wangari]

LOOKING BACK TO MOVE FORWARD When all these forms of corruption, along with the more usual graft and theft, become embedded, the societal machine grinds to a halt. I'm not ...
( Category: African-American Studies May 25,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2015-02-21 | Author:Wagner, Gernot & Weitzman, Martin L. [Wagner, Gernot]

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 ...
( Category: Environmental Policy May 19,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-09-10 | Author:James Delingpole

Forgive me if I sound slightly cynical about the ‘s’ word. Problem is, I do know what it means and how it entered the language, and I’m afraid it embodies ...
( Category: Environmental Policy April 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-12-31 | Author:Prasenjit Duara [Duara, Prasenjit]

Dialogical transcendence and popular religion Although the emperor claimed exclusive access to Heaven, the Chinese imperial model was not a theocracy. Local communities were permitted to worship a panoply of ...
( Category: Customs & Traditions March 14,2015 )
epub |eng, eng, tur | 2012-08-09 | Author:James Marriott

14 NO-ONE WANTS THIS PIPELINE ON THEIR CV: IT’S AN EMBARRASSMENT EUPHRATES VALLEY, CENTRAL ANATOLIA İstanbul House of Detention I love my country: I have swung on its plane trees ...
( Category: Oil & Energy March 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:David Zetland

Account for available resources Bargain to determine rights and priorities Codify rights and priorities into rules Delegate implementation to appropriate agencies Engineer the infrastructure necessary to deliver water Feedback results ...
( Category: Environmental Economics March 6,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2015-02-14 | Author:Allen Morrison & Heidi Strebel

Where can you have the largest impact? Having identified the major elements that shape your company’s context, you will need to assess where your company’s greatest impacts on society and ...
( Category: Ethics March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2013-07-11 | Author:Epstein, Alex J. & Dennis, Eric M. [Epstein, Alex J.]

CHAPTER 9: THE “RENEWABLE ENERGY” FALLACY The notion of “renewable energy” has two fundamental conceptual flaws. It’s not really renewable, and it’s not really energy. “Renewable” in most definitions approximates ...
( Category: Environmental Policy March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-12-28 | Author:Terry L. Anderson [Anderson, Terry L.]

The Skyline pilot effort, negotiated between a willing seller and buyer, can demonstrate the energy, environmental, and economic benefits associated with transfers from out-of-stream to instream flows in the Columbia ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 3,2015 )
mobi, azw3, epub |eng | 2012-12-20 | Author:Smil, Vaclav [Smil, Vaclav]

Twenty Millennia of Phytomass Change Given the lasting uncertainties in quantifying the aboveground phytomass in today’s ecosystems (leaving aside even greater errors in estimating the belowground biomass and its productivity), ...
( Category: Environmental February 13,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-10-27 | Author:Alex Epstein

CLIMATE MASTERY Even as we are taught to think of ourselves as in mortal climate danger, human beings are progressively becoming masters of climate. There are two components to mastering ...
( Category: Environmental February 3,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-03-10 | Author:Payne, Richard [Payne, Richard]

125 Snyder, Gary Snyder Reader, 43. 126 Murphy, Place for Wayfaring, 106. 127 Snyder, Real Work, 117. 128 Snyder, Old Ways, 51. Emphasis original. 129 This statement confirms and expands ...
( Category: Environmental Economics January 22,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2014-09-15 | Author:Klein, Naomi [Klein, Naomi]

* The retreat took place under the Chatham House Rule, which allows those attending to report on what was said in sessions, but not on who said what. (Any interviews ...
( Category: Environmental Policy January 8,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-06-27 | Author:Seamus McGraw [McGraw, Seamus]

SEVEN The End of Country “Those roads can be treacherous at this time of year,” my mother hissed into the phone, sharpening every sibilant before driving it into my unfeeling ...
( Category: State & Local December 27,2014 )