epub |eng | 2011-02-14 | Author:Martenson, Chris [Martenson, Chris]

Figure 16.8 indicates that even a historically modest 4 percent rate of global growth would require an advance from the 84.4 mbd (million barrels per day) in 2009 to 89.1 ...

epub |eng | 2012-06-04 | Author:Derrick Jensen

186 I need to be clear that I am not cynical enough to believe all relationships are this way, nor is that my experience. I was speaking specifically of those ...

epub |eng | 2010-06-23 | Author:Paul Greenberg

With fish, though, hope must always be put in context. Around the time of the North American cod crises and the passage of the Sustainable Fisheries Act, Daniel Pauly, known ...

epub |eng | 2013-04-14 | Author:The Worldwatch Institute [The Worldwatch Institute]

Melissa Leach is a social anthropologist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, United Kingdom. She directs the ESRC STEPS (Social, Technological and Environmental Pathways ...

epub | | 2013-06-30 | Author:A Village to Reinvent the World

~ “pepe GOMEZ wants to meet you,” guillermo perry told paolo Lugari. “Who’s Pepe Gomez?” asked Paolo. They were chatting after a meet­ing in Bogota of the Institute Geografico Agustin ...

epub |eng | 2013-09-10 | Author:Vaclav Smil

4.6 Life-Cycle Assessments Quantifications of energies embedded in materials are useful and revealing companions to standard analyses of material flows using mass or value. But a brief reflection shows that ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2008-04-23 | Author:David Michaels [Michaels, David]

The Data Access Act was not a complete victory for industry. After receiving thousands of comments and complaints from scientists, research institutions, and public policy experts, the Clinton-era Office of ...

epub, pdf |eng | 2010-03-25 | 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 ...

epub, azw3 |eng | 2012-05-28 | Author:Pearce, Fred [Pearce, Fred]

Eka Tjipta Widjaja was born Oei Ek Tjhong. He emigrated from China to Sulawesi in Indonesia with his family at the age of nine. He started in business selling cookies ...

epub |eng | 2012-04-19 | Author:Edward Humes [Humes, Edward]

TRASHY DELUSIONS From a Garbage Project study for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on the Lean Cuisine syndrome (how people overestimate and underestimate their consumption of certain foods based on ...

epub |eng | 2012-03-18 | Author:Daniel Miller

How jeans became ordinary For this purpose we used the same technique I had devised originally for the shopping research, taking randomly selected streets and working with whoever happened to ...

epub |eng | 2012-02-24 | Author:Thommen, Lukas [Thommen, Lukas]

2 Jashemski 1979, 172ff., 233ff.; 1998. 3 Grimal 1969, 107ff.; Frass 2006, 428ff. Chapter 16 Animals For the Romans, too, keeping animals was of basic economic and social importance. Under ...

mobi |eng | 2011-04-01 | Author:Carl Safina

By the start of the third week of June, one-third of the Gulf’s federal waters, 81,000 square miles, remain closed to fishing. And the Economist estimates that BP is on ...

mobi, epub |eng | | Author:Rogers, Heather [Rogers, Heather]

CHAPTER SIX The Price of Air: Carbon Offsets Gudibanda is a string of dusty villages about sixty kilometers north of Bangalore in the southern state of Karnataka, India. The landscape ...

mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2003-07-15 | Author:Frances Moore Lappé; Anna Lappé

10. Hypothetical All-Plant-Food Diet (Just to Prove a Point) Clearly this diet contains much more protein, 57.7 grams, than the National Academy of Science’s recommendation of 44 grams of protein ...