Environmental Economics
azw3, mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-03-01 | Author:Boxwell, Michael [Boxwell, Michael]

Maximum power point tracking More expensive solar controllers incorporate a technology called maximum power point tracking (MPPT). An MPPT controller adjusts the voltage being received from the solar array to ...
( Category: Solar September 28,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2014-09-16 | Author:Naomi Klein

* 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 September 17,2014 )
azw3, mobi |eng | 2012-02-06 | Author:Paul Gilding

Let no waste go to waste Ensure that all used materials are recycled and reused, at the very least to recover the embedded energy. To force this, limit production of ...
( Category: Human Geography September 15,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Russell Gold [Gold, Russell]

McClendon became convinced by around 2003 that whichever company could grab the most acreage would succeed. Those who dallied would be left behind. By the middle of 2006, he was ...
( Category: Drilling Procedures September 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2012-09-11 | Author:J. William Thompson & Kim Sorvig [Sorvig, Kim]

Test Modern Hardware for Cleaner Piped Stormwater Pave-and-pipe stormwater “control” contributes to pollution and is not a recommended practice. Piped systems, however, remain an article of faith among engineers, and ...
( Category: Design & Construction August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Michelle Bamberger,Robert Oswald

The response from FARAD was simple: “We do not answer ‘general questions.’ ” The agency referred me to a state veterinarian working in conjunction with a state diagnostic laboratory, or ...
( Category: Environmental Policy August 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-11-11 | Author:Mark Diesendorf

Breaking down car culture The traditional approach to transport planning – building or widening major roads and providing large numbers of parking spaces in urban centres and subcentres – was ...
( Category: Sustainable Development July 20,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-09-24 | Author:Speth, James Gustave [Speth, James Gustave]

Transforming Communities It has been said that the nation-state is too big for the little things and too little for the big things. That is true if we think of ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism July 14,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-06 | Author:Watts, Alan W. [Watts, Alan W.]

So much, then, for hats. Now—unless some zoologist can dig up a weird exception—humans are the only living beings who wear clothes. They are also the only beings who laugh, ...
( Category: Environmental Economics July 14,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2012-07-14 | Author:Ozzie Zehner

11. Improving Consumption And he puzzled three hours, till his puzzler was sore. Then the Grinch thought of something he hadn’t before! “Maybe Christmas,” he thought, “doesn’t come from a ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 13,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Roberts, Paul [Roberts, Paul]

On a poultry farm in the busy, smog-choked outskirts of Hefei, a city halfway around the world from the Salinas Valley, the collision between food production and food pathogens enters ...
( Category: Food Science July 6,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-07-24 | Author:Heinberg, Richard [Heinberg, Richard]

The Bottom Line on Fracking’s Potential to Revolutionize Oil and Gas Production Raymond Pierrehumbert, Professor of Geophysical Sciences at the University of Chicago, recently summarized the situation with crystalline brevity: ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels July 4,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-04-29 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

When delegates to the UN climate conference in Indonesia in 2007 agreed to the so-called Bali Roadmap, ICLEI gathered local government organizations to form the Local Government Climate Roadmap 2007–2009—the ...
( Category: Environmental Policy July 2,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-02 | Author:Bill Powers, Art Berman [Powers, Bill; Berman, Art]

FIGURE 18.03. Japan Liquefied Natural Gas Import Price Chart.29 While the high South American prices can be partially explained by winter weather in the Southern Hemisphere, there is little doubt ...
( Category: Fossil Fuels June 29,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Tomasi, John

Applying the Theory As I have stated, I think of market democracy as a research program rather than as any one particular view. As a research program, a great variety ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism May 26,2014 )